Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-11
CROP CONDITIONS.
Cotton Somewhat injured by Both
Drought and Rain.
WASHINGTON, Nov, 10, - The report OF
the Department Of Agriculture SAYS:

WASHINGTON, Nov, 10, - The report OF
the Department of Agriculture says:
Tho cotton returns for November attest
rapid progress of picking, unusual cleanness
OF tbre and shortness of the late crop on the
light uplands and districts most affected by
drought. Light frosts sufficient to arrest the
grow tn have occurred in the northern dis
trct- and TO the centre of the cotton belt. In
Arkansas and Tennessee large yield is as
sured, and in Texas the yield is higher than
in the census year, when the proauct was
thirty seven hundredthS of IA bale per acre
and the October condition elxty-fve. On the
Atlantic coast the effect Of the eX-
cessive early rains and the
long continued drought, the later
season il apparent in reduced production.
The following per centages of the several
States indicating the probable product are
based ON full crop unlmpaired by injuries
or losses from any cause, and the general
average is two or three pointe over than the
result OF the October returns: Virginia 7l,
North Carolina "a, South Carolina u, Georgia
10, Florida 81, Alabama rs, mississippi n,
Louisiana rs, Texas II, Arkansas So, Tennessee
CoRN's YIELD.
The yield of corn according to the revised
returns of the yield ia % bushels per acre,
making product upon the present adiust
ment OF the acreage of 1,bbS, ,OO0.O00 bushels.
This aCcOrds well with the recent returns Of
condition and will not be mat rially changed
in the Hual review of he ork Of the year.
The yield of the great corn surplus states is
yari able. The lowest, of course Is in the re-
glOn OF drought. Ohio S2 8, Indiana 322, lll-
nois 2.I Iowa 24.5, Missouri %. 20, Kansas 2l.2,
Nebraska 275 New York aud The Eastern
States exceed 30 bushels. Pennsylvania yields
nearly as much. and the Southern states gen.
orally show reduced rate OF yield
THE POTATO PRODUCT.
The potato product is nearly the same as
last year, with higher Yields in the Ea.t and
lower in the West. The average is 73 bushels
per acre, giving product of l6S,0O0,000
bushels.
The buckwheat crop m axes a yield of about
10 bushels per acre, promising a product eX-
ceeding II COT, ,000 bushels.
The apparent production of tobacco is at a
rate slightly exceeding an average of 100
pounds per acre, or about ASS, 600. coo pounds,
whi,h h is equal TO the n, erage quirements
of consumption and expectation.
The average rate yield for the hay crop is
the apparent product is a pout 45, ,000, 900 tons.
THE COTTON EXCHANGES REPORT.
NEW ORLEANS, LA, Nov. 1O.-The re-
port OF National Cotton Exchange just
issued says.
The weather during the past month has
been uniformly and exceptionally 1ne for
picking, and 1t is generally estimated that
nearly three fourths of the crop has been
already gathered. A killing frost during the
last week in October has been reported pretty
much throughout the cotton belt. In ma
jority Of the States the expectations fore
shadowed in last report have been fairly
realized, but in Mississippi, Alabama and
the two CarOlinas the vie d has been dsap
pointing. The crop estimate Is ae follows;