Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-11-05
CROPS IN TENNESSEE.
Commissioner Hawkins Report of the
Condition of the Crops in October.

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The October Tennessee crop report has
been issued by Commissioner Hawkins.
The following yield per cent is reported
for cotton, corn and tobacco, and the aver
age per cent of wheat sown, as compared
with the same date last year:
FOR THE STATE.
Corn, yield per cent, 172; tobacco, yield
per cent, LOT; wheat, average per cent.
sOwn, 80.
EAST TENNESSEE.
Corn, yield per cent, 12l cotton, yield
per cent, 80; tobacco, yield per cent, 100;
wheat, average per cent sown, lis.
Anderson COMMISSIONING wheat is the
order of the day; pastures good
Bradley County-As great deal of corn
has been thrown down, the dry weather is
very beneficial; is also very good on cotton.
Carter County-Heavy crop of wheat
sown; fine season for seeding.
Claiborne County-Wheat looks well; all
are through sowing.
Cooke County-Hogs dying rapidly with
cholera; weather too dry for sowing wheat
and grass.
Granger County-Grass and stock fine;
land very dry; fine mast.
| Greene County-Winter oats fine; hogs
fattening fast; stock in fine condition; fine
crops of potatoes.
Hancock County -Turnips have not done
well.
Hawkins County-Hogs scarce; sowing
great deal of wheat; roads in good repair.
James County-Hogs very scarce and
| price high; pea crop an average.
| Jefferson County-Have had three light
| frosts; corn in good condition; stock selling
at high prices.
| johnson County-Usual crop of wheat
will be sown; fifty per cent of hogs died
| with cholera.
Knox County-Too dry to SOW wheat,
but farmers are busy; we are all busy gath
ering corn.
Loudon County-Too early for wheat yet.
McMinn County-The warm weather is
fine on cotton, and picking is well up.
Monroe County-Wheat sowing is well
advanced; hogs scarce but fat.
Rhea County-Good time for wheat SOW
ing; stock of all kinds very fine.
Roane County-Good crop of corn; hogs
scarce; cattle fat; beef high; good crop of
corn; wheat coming up badly, but large
crop is being sown.
Sewer County-Hogs scarce and cholera
sill raging.
Sullivan County-Dry, warm weather has
prevented many from sowing wheat; one
frost.
Union County-Hogs and cattle good,
but scarcer than known for several years.
Washington County-Drilling and ma
nuring the mania now; homemade COM
post used mostly; much winter oats sowing;
apples rotting badly; hogs scarce; mast very
fine; backward in sowing wheat.
GENERAL REMARKS.
This has been a prosperous year for the
farmers of Tennessee. Though laboring
under many disadvantages, resulting from
the partial failure of crops last year. IN con-
sequence or the drought. they have la
bored energetically and industriously,
and their labors have been crowned with
abundant success Every character of crop
cultivated in the State has yielded abund-
antly. The misfortune of last year
taught economy. The farmers of Tennes-
see went in debt to smaller extent during
the past season than in former years and III
consequence larger percentage OF the
crop raised is now their own. Another les
son was learned which, with the one just
stated, it will be well to remember. Owing
to the abundant rainfall of last winter and
early spring serious apprehensions were en-
| tertained of drought in the summer This
apprehension led 10 better preparation of
the soil by deeper tlllage. Our abundant
crops are doubtless, in part at least, attr1b-
utable to this cause.
The backwardness of the cotton crop at
one time gave rise to fears that the yield
would be light. These fears have been dis
| sipated by the highly favorable character of
| the fall season ard by the absence of a
killing frost to a later date than usual.
The tobacco crop has been housed gen.
orally in good condition and of excellent
| quality.
Our corn crop surpasses any former ex-
| perience.
| The crop of potatoes, both Irish and
sweet, is unusually hnes
The crops of fruits and vegetables have
proven abundant.
Much of the fruit and vegetable crop has
been advantageously marketed.
Large quantities of fruit, especially
| peaches, have been dried, and in this form
have added materially to the income to
the stores of our farmers.
Our forests have yielded immense stores
of nuts and acorns, SO that hogs will, in
many localities, be fatted with but slight
| draft upon our stores of corn.
Pastures have been excellent and stock
of all kinds are generally in fine condition.
In only few localities have epidemics
among stock prevailed. Hogs are reported
as scarce in nearly all parts of the State,
and it may be reasonably expected that the
| prices of pork, lard and bacon will continue
to rule high. While this may be expected
1 do not apprehend that there will be great
er, or even as great scarcity of these COM
modities as in the past season. The great
abundance of feed will lead those who have
hogs to make the most of them. Santa
rians, believe, universally concede that
the common diet of our people would be
more wholesome if the hog, in its various
forms, entered less largely into its compost
ton. -s
The abundance of provender in the
country furnishes the opportunity by better
feeding and more care of milk COWS, of
substituting dairy products, milk, butter
and cheese for pork, bacon and lard, doubt
less the substitution might largely be made
with advantage, both as to health and
economy.
The dryness of the fall season, combined
with the absence of frost to destroy the va
rious kinds of insect life, has caused farm
ers in some portions of the State to delay
the sowing of wheat, though in other To-
calities quite large acreage has been sown,
and the nelds are now becoming green with
the promise of another harvest.
In view of the bounties which Providence
has SO lavished upon us during the year the
farmers of Tennessee have ample cause to
join with glad hearts in the national thanks
giving already proclaimed.
Respectfully,
A. W. HAWKINS,
Commissioner.
ALIENS LUNG BALsAM has proved itself
to be the greatest medical remedy for heal
ing the ungs-purifying the blood and re-
storing the tone of the liver. 1t excites
the phlegm which is raised from the lungs,
thereby the cough, pains, oppression, night