Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-14
CROP REPORTS.


ment of Agriculture at Washington reports
an increase in the cotton area slightly ex-
ing per cent. Florida and Tennessee fail
by one point to maintain their area and
there is decrease of about 10 per cent in
the cotton districts Of Virginia and Missou-
ri. The increase is 8 per cent, in Texas,
in Arkansas, in Louisiana, 3 in Alabama,
2 respectively in South Carolina and Missis-
sippi and in Georgia. The Department rec
ord of the area in 1882 was 900 acres.
Returns now indicate breadth of 16,7S0, 900
acres-an increase of 504 ,000acres. The area
by States is in thousands of acres. Virgin
ia So, North Carolina 1850, South Carolina
1,619, Georgia 2,873, Florida 25S, Alabama
2,61O, Mississippi 2,27s, Louisiana 932, Texas
3,035, Arkansas 1888, Tennessee S07. Mis-
souri,, Indian Territory and the other States
contribute the remainder. Planting has
been late and replanting to fill defective
stands more general than usual.
The cold and wet April, followed by a cold
and very dry May, with frostS from May
Goth to 9th, continued the attempts to fill
the gaps up to the date of the report and in
the Gulf States belated plants had not ap-
peared on the first of June. Persistent eff
forts have been made to perfect the stands
throughout the cotton belt. The low tenn
perature and rains of April have delayed
turns make the season late, the lge being
from one to three weeks. Mule favorable
weather in lower latitudes begins already to
brighten the outlook. There were counties
in North Carolina in which one-sixth to
one-third of the cotton was not up. The
frost Of the 23d of May, which extended
nearly or quite through the area planted
was especially injurious. On the Northern
border in South Carolina the cold nights and
drying winds during May greatly reduced
vitality and the weather of the first week OF
June was scarcely warm enough for cotton.
Similar causes produced like effects in GeOr-
gia, somewhat modified by milder temper
ature, yet one correspondent claims from
personal record the worst season for cotton in
twenty-seven years. In the remaining
States the temperature has been lower than
usual. There is frequent report of the pres
ence of the aphis wherever the plant is in
worst condition. The caterpillar made it's
appearance on the 18th of May in Butler
county, Alabama, twenty days earlier than
ever known before, and Robertson and Vic
toria in Texas report their presence. 1t has
been generally too dry, but serious injury is
nowhere reported, though threatened in
Southwestern Texas, especially in Guada-
loupe, Medina, Lavaca, Somerville and
Lima. Notwithstanding these drawbacks
there is fair stand of medium vitality and
usually clean clean culture. The average of
condition is represented by So against SO in
June of last year, which was lower than for
several years, though improving constantly
afterwards. The averages of condition are:
Virginia 81, North Carolina 81, South Caro-
lima S5, Georgia IS, Florida 81, Alabama 81,
Mississippi SO, Louisiana 81, Texas SO, Ar
kansas 81 and Tennessee 7S.
WHEAT, OATS AND BARLEY.
The condition of Winter wheat is report
ed lower than in May throughout the entire
area, with few exceptions. The decline
amounts to points in Connecticut, IA in
New York, 2in Ohio, 8 in Indiana, Is in IL
linois, 7 in Missouri. It is slight in Michi-
gan and generally throughout the South.
The general average of the condition is Is
against SO in May; in June, 1882, it was SO.
For Winter wheat it is by States as follows:
Connecticut 80, New York 63, New Jersey
101, Pennsylvania 81, Delaware S3, Mary
land SO, Virginia SO, North Carolina 50,
Georgia Sc, Alabama 95, Mississippi S3,
Texas S6, Arkansas so, Tennessee IS, West
Virginia S9, Kentucky II, Ohio go, Michigan
80, Indiana 81, Missouri 70, Illinois 81, Kan
sas 80, California 8S, Oregon 80. These fig-
ures indicate the condition of the growing
wheat without reference to loss of area, by
showing up the Winter killed areas. The
Spring wheat area has been increased about
half million acres or nearly five per cent.
Iowa reports a reduction of per cent. !;
Minnesota makes an increase of 5 per cent,
Nebraska of 7, Dakota of 40 and Montana
of 5. The Spring wheat States have an
acreage of nearly ten million acres. The
condition of Spring wheat is everywhere
high, averaging 9s per cent, the same aslast
year. The area of barley increased 5 per
cent. The total acreage is about 1850, 600
acres. The condition averages 81 per cent.
The increase in the area in oats is per
cent. the area is nearly 100000 acres.
The condition is high, averaging 96 per
cent.