Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-09-09
TENNESSEE CROPS,
Commissioner Hawkins Report for the
Month of August

Commissioner Hawkins Report for the
Month of August.
The crop report of Commissioner A. W.
Hawkins, first issued makes the following
showing as to the estimated con-
dition of crops in Tennessee, for the month
of August, 1882:
EAST TENNESSEE
Corn $50, cotton SO, tobacco III, sor-
ghum 107, millet 108, Irise potatoes lab,
sweet potatoes 116, apples 102, peaches IS,
grapes SO, berries 1O7, melons Sc, garden
products 128 buckwheat 107, peanuts 104,
stock peas 121, turnips (condition) los, tur-
nips acreage los, early irish potatoes (per
cent. of yield) 14S.
MIDDLE TENNESSEE.
Corn 1856, cotton SO, tobacco 1876, sor-
ghum 1877, millet 1872, Irish potatoes 142,
sweet potatoes 126, apples $50, peaches 1902,
| grapes 81, berries ia, melons ia, garden
products 1877, buckwheat lis, peanuts 100,
| stock peas ia. turpips lib, turnips (acre-
age) 101, early Irish potatoes yield per
cent. 142.
WEST TENNESSEE.
Com 161, cotton 49, tobacco ia, sor-
| ghum 124, millet 103, Irish potatoes 1877,
| sweet potatoes, 124, apples $50, peaches
135, grapes 80, berries 1O2, melons lis,
garden products 1872, buckwheat ITO, pea
nuts 1l9, stock peas 1879, turnips 120, tur-
| nips (acreage) 118, early hish potatoes
| yield per cent 40.
AVERAGE FOR THE STATE.
Corn 159, cotton 50, tobacco 119, sor-
ghum 1872, millet ia, Irish potatoes 1877,
sweet potatoes 100, apples 100, peaches
1O4, grapes 90, berries 108, melons los,
garden products 129, buckwheat ITO, pea
nuts 107, stock peas 121, turnips Condition
ia, turnips (acreage) 109, early Irish po-
tatoes (yield) 10.
NOTES AND REMARKS.
Anderson County-Fall and winter apples
rotting.
Bledsoe County-Corn weedy; bad hay
season.
Blount County-Crops of all kinds, wheat
county; fruits rotting.
Bradley COMMUNICATION looks fine; sugar
cane never better.
Carter County-Fine pastures and plenty
of rain; hogs very scarce and dying with
cholera; lambs dying; threshing over.
Campbell County-Hay crop very large,
but injured by rain; too wet for saving
clover seed.
Cooke County-The yield of wheat was
not good; corn very fine.
Granger County-Peaches and grapes
are rotting badly; corn good; wheat good;
hogs scarce.
Greene County-Grapes and melons a
failure; CON injured by rain millet dam
aged by rain.
Hamblen County-Pastures fine and cat
tie and sheep fat.
Hamilton County-Corn better, sweet
potatoes good, late Irish potatoes very fiat
| tering Farmers cheerful.
| Hancock County-Wheat not as good as
was expected.
Hawkins County-The wheat is not as
good as expected, one-fourth of the crop
yet to thresh peaches rotting.
Jefferson County-Hoes dying with chol
era; corn is fine where cultivated; grass ex.
| ira fine
Knox County Crops not well worked on
account of rain; everything will yield well.
McMinn County-Cattle dying with MUIR
rain; peaches rotting on the trees.
Meigs County-Corn not filling properly;
some has failed to put out shoots; wheat MOI
up to expectations.
Monroe County-Wheat was injured by
pasturing; grasses are very fine; cattle and
sheep in good condition.
Morgan County-Grapes rotting; apple
and peaches falling; scattle taken to market
in fine condition.
Rhea County-New ore banks being
opened; corn the best. since 1868.
Roane County-The meadows are twic'
as good as in 1881; but few turnips sown.
Sequatchie County-The condition o
crops good; corn is now made and is fine
some are blowing for wheat.
Unicoi County-Too rainy for tobacco.
Washington County-Grapes, peaches AM
apples rotting; not more than one-fourth O
a crop of grapes; wheat not SO good as ex
pected.
GENERAL REMARKS.
The reports for the month are in the mali
highly favorable. The corn crop will prove
the largest gathered in the State for man
years, perhaps the largest ever MADE.
The condition of cotton, as t.
fruitage, is much improved. Being late
however, there is danger of injury by frost
Tobacco cutting has commenced, tn,
crop being a fair one, though in some local
tiles there is complaint of too much rain
which will cause the leaf to be light ant
thin
There is general complaint of the scarcit,
of hogs. Doubtless in many localities thi
complaint is well founded, while in other
it is more apparent than real The heav.
crop of corn and bountiful mast in tn
woods are causing an active inquiry 70