The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-07-16
The Crop Prospect.


The Banner has reports from 81
different sources of the condition
of the growing crops in Tennessee,
upon which it bases the following
statements:
Wheat is almost a failure, the acre
age being less and the yield not half an
acreage, still the quality is fair and the
condition of the crop might have been
worse.
This bad feature has an Offset in the
fine condition of corn and the increased
acreage sown. Corn is staple in Ten
nessee and the yield this year promises
TO compensate the Tennessee farmers Tor
the wheat failure.
Rive is not good, but then there is not
a very large acreage of it and the loss
from it will be small.
Oats on the other hand is abundant
and in fine condition.
Potatoes, tobacco, cotton and grasses
are also in excellent condition with IN
creased acreage
Cattle, hogs, sheep and mules show
encouraging averages, very few coun-
ties reporting them otherwise than In
good order and doing well.
There is, therefore, no cause for COM
wheat while there is such bright prom
| Use in so many other directions.
1t is one of the glorious boasts about
Tennessee that her people do not have
TO depend upon any one production for
success.
Besides the corn and oats and pota-
toes and tobacco and cotton and grains
and grasses and stock, we have fruits
of almost every variety, besides I'M
mense resources in thousand other
directions.
He is a croaker who complains in
productive Tennessee, with her fertile
valleys, rich hillsides, beautiful streams
dense forests, inexhaustible ore beds
and never-failing coal fields.
The report, for June, of the agri-
cultural bureau, gave the following
general average for the state: Corn
condition, 105; oats, 50; cotton, 95
sorghum, 90; Irish potatoes, 80
sweet potatoes, 81; acreage, 90
tobacco, 65; acreage, 100, millet, 81
acreage, 104; apples, 101; peaches
100; grapes, 104; melons, 81; berries
1O1; garden products, 103; acreage
81; peanuts, 100; acreage, los.
The principal surprise in the July
report of the National Department
of Agriculture is the fact that the
estimate of the winter wheat crop il
100000 bushels greater than the
June estimate, and the next sur
prise is that the spring wheat estI
mate is 100000 bushels less. The
former is now put down at 5000,
600 bushels, and the latter at I48,
900, 900, a total of 1853, 100000 bush
els, against 36O,OOO,OOO. The corr
acreage is stated at the unheard o.
total of "a, 100000 acres against &c..
OS3, 900 acres in 1884, which yielded
1895, 100000 bushels, or 100000
bushels more than ever before re
ported. The acreage of oats in the
aggregate is considerably increased
and in the winter wheat belt it is
! largely in excess of all presidents
The condition increased 4 per cent
in June, and the condition Of rye by
the same percentage. The condi
ton of tobacco is as high as ever
before reported, SO. The area o.
cotton is $4,000 acres greater thai
last year, or any other year, and il
June the condition increased 4 pei
cent. to SO, which is about the
formula for perfection of stant
and health. In Jane, 1884, the
condition declined one per cent
A full round yield on the ground
covered, 100000 acres, would
amount to about 100000 bales
which would exceed the yield o.
1884 by about million and a hall
, bales. The present supply of cotton
in market and mill in America and
Europe is smaller than 1t has been
since 1882, a condition which could
afford some counterpoise to such G
yield; and while the present scale
of consumption is smaller than last
year, it is considerably larger
than at the date OF the last approx
innate parity of stocks and probable
supplies, i. e. in 1882.