Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-04
Tuesday Morning, July 4, 1882.
COTTON AMI CORN

COTTON AND CORNs
 The crop reports continue to be very en- oouraging, with the exception of those con- cerning cotton and corn. It now seems prob- able that unless the conditions are sxtraorai- narily favorable these two important crops will not be large, for this country.
 The latest and most complete reports con- cernlng cotton say that the acreage is slightly less than that of last year and the condition exceptionally unpromising. There is, how ever, nothing which necessarily precludes an average crop, though there Is no encourage ment to expect large one The crop is backward; it is not injured The weather of the future will determine the quantity raised, but in it's present state there is less than the usual margin for recuperation from moderately late season. If however, the
 weather should be continuously propitious it is possible that crop equal to the large one of 18SO'81 may be realized.
 There are interesting reports from several
 of the corn-growing States Full reports
 have been received from about hundred
 points in Minnesota and three tiers of coun-
 ties in northern Iowa, and more than three fourths of them represent 8 vastly improved SSAAASASAA every indication pointed to an almost total failure of this crop, and many farmers so de- spalred of success of that product that they plowed it up and sowed the ground over again. Now, however, a great change having
 taken place in the weather, which for the
 last week has been torrid, corn has taken wonderful start and bids fair to show an average yield after long weeks of backward ness. writer who has travelled through more than thirty of the best corn growing counties of Illinois. andHwho has given the corn crop special attention at this time of the year for more than fifteen seasons, sum- raarlzes his conclusions as follows: "In not over one tenth of the State of Illinois is there fair stand of corn in average condition About one-sixth of the corn acreage is drowned out and entirely ruined. On the rolling prairie and drained land there is 8 prospect of perhaps a two-thirds crop. With favorable weather from this time forward there is not very good prospect of little over half the average yield, while there is 8 contingency of 8 too sudden drying of the soil and an early frost we'll as that of g continuance of wet weather, so that on the WAO1o tAS COuOAtlOn OI the corn crop may DC called more precarious than it has ever been before at this season since 1850" The month < ly bulletin just issued by the Indiana Bureau of Statistics reports that in that State the ! stand of corn is unusually good, that there I has been less replanting than usual, and that
 the outlook, except in wet and undrained districts, is fair. With one exception every county in Karsas has reported to the State Board of Agriculture. Corn was planted in ! Kansas about two weeks earlier this year \ than usual, but owing to the extreme and ! long-continued cold weather which followed
 it made slow growth and is not so forward as
 is usual at this time. There is largely in l creased acreage. Six counties have over ! 100, 900 acres in corn.
 It will be from tho above that the eatlonk for cotton and corn is not as promis ing as it might De. Is-sh if there should be {
 slight deficiency in these two crops it would
 not be killing matter. Probably the othsl
 crops would more than make up the loss