Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-11-10
The COuniry's Crops.
REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL-
TURE.

REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUI-
TURE.
The cotton returns of November are local es-
Inmates of the yield per acre. They are some
what higher than those of the last Two years,
but materially lower than those of 1880 and
1882. The increase over the yield of last year
is most marked in Texas and Georgia The
past month has been generally favorable for
picking, which is well advanced, more than
three-tourths of the crop having been gathered
The present crop OF cora is the first full aver
age in rate of yield since 1880, which was the
last OF series of six full crops of twenty-siX to
twenty-eight bushels per acre. Tie present
crop grown on an area OF g. 600 600 TO "a 600 :
600 acres, is slightly above an average, for a
period of ten years, or 26la bushels per acre.
The potato crop Is smaller than that of 1884
in consequence OF injury from rot, which has
reduced the New York crop nearly One-third
There is much complaint of rot i'm Wisconsin
and Iowa, and in some counties in Michigan,
The reported yield of hay per acre averages
Ia tons, and indicates a crop of over A. 900 900
tons, ms. nearly Early large as that ate, Of last year:
average yield will exceed fourteen bushels per
acre.
GEN. FrTzHUGH LEE AND HIS POLITICAL
FUTURE.-Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, governor-elect of
Virginia, is understood to have been spending
the greater part of his time since election at his
quiet home in Fairfax county. AS was to be
expected, any number and variety OF sugges-
lions, predictions, prophecies, &c, are being
made concerning the political future OF the
governOr-elect. Some enthusiastic friends
have already named him as the man almost
sure to be the next democratic nominee tor
vice presidency. They say his administration
OF state affairs will in all national matters be
as broad as the Union, and they especially
dwell on the fact that more than 10000 of his
cOlOred fellow citizens received their first bap-
tism in democracy under his late victorious
leadership Friends of Gen. Lee declare that
he will take no part either in the senatorial
contest of Barbour and Daniel or in that of as
pirants for federal offices.
CARP FOR THE WEsr.-United States fish
commission car No. 2 will leave Washington
tonight with carp to supply applicants in Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana and illinois,
GLIDING delegation consisting Of Gen. Clinton
B. Fisk, w. H. Lyon, Erastus Brooks, Rev. Ly-
man Abbott, A. X. Smiley, John Charlton and
Melvin p. Gates. appointed at the conference Of
friends of the Indians at Mohonk Lake, n. Y,
called on the President before cabinet meeting
to-day and laid before him the resolutions and
recommendations adopted by the conference,
which urge radical changes In the method OF
managing Indians. Gen. Fisk headed the dele
dent. Hon. Erastus Brooks, of New York read
an address embOdying the views OF the confer
ence as to the best method OF improving the
condition of the Indians. He reminded the
President Of his remarks on the subject in his
inaugural, in which he said the Indians should
government and their education and civiliza-
ton promoted with view to their ultimate
citizenship" He also recalled the words of Mrs.
Helen Hunt jackson in her deathbed letter to
the President.
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