Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-11
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.


 Crop Returns for August Outlook
 Less Favorable for Cotton A Good
 Prospect for Other Produess.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-The August cot ton returns to the department of agriculture are less favorable than those of July. The condition is lower in every State except two on the northern border of the belt, Virginia and Tennessee The plant is sutf fsring from the meteorological Yagaries of this peculiar season. It was too cold in May, too wet in June and too dry in July. In Georgia the injury is the greatest, the condition falling from 93 to 78. In South Carolina the de- cline has been from 91 to 80. There has been ample rain in a large portion of the Louisiana cotton district and in nearly all the cotton counties in Florida, in Tennessee generally and in majority of the North Car olina counties. The general average of con dition has fallen to 84 from 90 in July. The record stands by States |: Virginia ST, North Carolina ST, South Carolina 80, Georgia 7s, Florida 93, Alabama 83. Mississippi 85, Louisiana 85, Texas s9, Arkansas s3, Tennessee 90. The reports of the presence of the cater pillar are numerous in the Gulf coast States. Alabama is infested more seriously than Texas and Georgia. Tons of arsenic in vari- ous forms are applied to avert the damage done by the broods of this insect. While the relative condition of cotton compared with the returns of former years is unprom- ising, the volume of the crop depends large- Iy upon the more critical period from August Laao e,,k in the appearance of the cornfelds during the month of July in New England, the middle States, the Ohio valley and west of the Mis- sissippi. Taking the whole area together the condition has advanced from S3 to S9 per cent. of perfect crop. The condition of the census crop (1879) in August was 99 and the yield was twenty eight bushels per acre. The present returns indicate yield of not much over twenty-five bushels per acre, over one billion, seven hundred million bushels, which is as much as was produced In 1889. The averages of the States of principal production are Illinois 80, Indiana 95, Ohio 89, Michigan 6S, 85, Nebraska 84, Wisconsin 85. On"the At lantic coast New York 9, Pennsylvania 99, New Jersey 101. In the South Virginia 92, North Carolina S3, South Carolina 80, Geor- gia 74 Alabama 80, Mississippi ST, Louisiana 100, Texas 93, Arkansas 87, Tennessee 89-
 spring Wheat-1ne average condition or spring wheat for August is 97. the same as in 1882. The prospect in Minnesota fa- vors crop of 13 1-2 bushels: condition 98. The fears excited by the exces- sive heat early in July in northern Dakota have been dispslIed. In southern Dakota the harvest is progressing The straw is bright, the heads large and the yield better than last year. The result of the harvest will be more fully tested on the return of the threshers' blanks. cable dis patch received from the London statisti cal agent of the department says the weather has been unsettled during the first ten days of August and the temperature low for this time of the year.
 Oats-The condition is represented by 100, figure excelled only by last August since 1878..
 Barley-The condition averages 95. the same as in August, 1882. The average for New York is 1O2, Pennsylvania 97, Ohio 80, Michigan 96, Wisconsin 96, Minnesota 96, Iowa 99, Nebraska 1O2, California 88.
 Potatoes-The returns indicate full de- velopment of the crop, condition 1O1.
 Buckwheat-A breadth of buckwheat equal to that of last year has been sown and it's condition is 99.
 Tobacco-The average condition is S8; Kentucky 93, Tennessee Ss, Virginia "A, North Carolina 70, Ohio 93, Pennsylvania 9G, Connecticut 98, Wisconsin 90.