Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-11
CROP CHRONICLES.
CONDITION OF COTTON AND GRAIN
UP TO JULY FIRST.
Wheat Only Tair--Corn and Oats Doing
weii-Cotton Shows Fair Average
of Condition.
The General s,ntement.

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shows very general improvement in
\ the condition of cotton. Winter
wheat advances in the general average
co, dition from rs to 20. aud spring
wheat from % to 100. The average OF
corn Is IS, against IS last July.
I Rains were general up To the 18TH
| or Goth Of June. and local showers
/ have been frequent since. There has
! been an excess of moisture, interfering
with cultivation and promoting the
| growth OF grass. Clean fields are found
only in favored districts and on the
land Of prompt and pushing cultiva-
| tors. Since June Goth, the growth has
been rapid. In the grassy districts the
/ plant is still small hut healthy and
making great progress wi h the recent
/ cultivation. The only complaint OF
! draught comes from Central and
| southwestern Texas, from the Col
orado to the Gauduloupe. A few
! counties in South Carolina
and Georgia report present need OF
rain. The recent distribution of moist
ness has been quite unequal. Adams
county, Mississippi, has had showers
4 daily for five weeks, and Pike county
for six to eight weeks. The general
average condition has advanced from
S6 to 80. Last July there was an inn
/ provement of 3 points, from 50 to %
Returns for July since 1870 have ind.
Gated higher condition than
! in June, except in 1871, 1873
and 1879. Spring weather was
/ too variable in temperature. and mois-
ture, as it usually has been in former
years, for the MISREPRESENTATION Of the
plant. Theonly retrograde is reported
| for Arkansas, where loss OF three
| points was made from excessive rain,
cool nights, and injuries from cbinch
bugs, red ants and rust. There is II
! promise of improvement during July
again. No points have been made in
the northern zone. North Caro-
lima Tennessee, and Texa.
made three, Mississippi two,
Virginia, /; Florida, Alaoana and
Mississippi stand as in June. The
July state averages are as follows:
| Virginia, 49, North Carolina, 30; South
Carolina, 81; Georgia, 93; Florida, IS;
Alabama, 81; Mississippi, 50; Louisiana
81; Texas, 93; Arkansas, 81; Tennessee,
SIS. Worms have wrought little injury
as yet. The catapiIlcr has appeared
at a few points from South Caro-
I lima to Texas. In Butler coun-
ty, Alabama, n second
brood of worms appeared on June 30.
| The boil worm is ut work in Denton
county, Texas. Picking will com
mence in Southwestern Texas about
July 9th.
GRAIN CROPS.
| There has been some improvement
in winter wheat in Connecticut, New
! York, Virginia, South Car Dina, Texas
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois
Missouri, Kansas and California, which
advances the general average of con-
| ditfon from 10 to 20. The spring
| wheat average n ivanced from IS u
100. Indications of July point to
a winter wheat crop offuily 3 1913 ,009
bushels, product of about IL, 900 00C
| bushels of spring wheat. The area in
the corn crap has been increased about
100000 acres, making an aggregate OF
| 6S, 0J0, 900 acres. There has been some
extension of area ipnearly every. state.
| The proportion Of increase is large in
the northwest, and in the south
west. On the coast from
Virginia to Mississippi the ad-
vance has been small. In some
places the reduction in prices from the
enlargement of the supply last year,
had Il disc luraging effect. There has
been too much rain in \ part OF the
western maize districts and failure
OF the stands from planting poor seed,
making the crop late and the growth
small but the improvement of late has
been rapid. Taking all the states to-
gether, the average for corn is So,
against 50 last July, 80 in 1881, and
10 in 1889. The averages of the prin-
cip2l states are as follows
New York 81; Pennsylvania, 50; Ohio,
So; Indiana, 80; Iowa, 50; Michigan,
10; Illinois, 50; Missouri, 50; Kansas,
IS; Nebraska 81; Dakota, rs. IN the
south the averages range from 30 in
Tennessee to 1913 IN Louisiana.
/ The prospect for oats is nearly as
good ms in July last year, the average
| being 90 against l03.
The condition OF barley is repre-
scented at 81; last July it was 06
/ The average in New York is
l0S; Penns3 ivania, 81; Wisconsin, l09
I California 90, there being an increase
of about five per cent, in the area
! planted in the Northern states.
Potatoes are rep,rtei III high condi-
/ ton, averaging l0l.
The area in tobacco appears to have
been diminished seven per cent. con.
/ dition %.
FROM ABROAD.
a cable Dispatch from the London
agent of the department Of agricultur,
received to-day, says the weather in
the first ten days ofJuly was hot anC
! forcing. Wheat estimates are increas
ing generally throughout Europe.
The Illinois Prospect.
Springfield, H., July l0.-The stat,
department of agriculture has re
ceived full returns from all counties il
the s,a'e of the condition of winter
wheat, up to July LIST. There has beer
| but little Improvement over the re
/ turus for three preceding months. TIL,
reports indicate that the crop of winter
wheat in Illinois will moi exceed six
teen millions, or thirty-tWo million,
less than the yield of 1852. The con
| dition OF the winter wheat in Thu
4 northern counties was five per cen
better on July lst than month ago
and gave prospect OF 81 per cent o
an average crop. In the
central counties the yield will bs
less than two-thirds OF crop. Til,
most discouraging reports are from ih'
southern portion of the state. which
usually produces the bulk Of the crop
and promises less than half crop, 81
81 per cent. less than last years yield
! 1t il quite unusual TO haze less than IA
average yield per acre in any of tn,
southern counties.
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