The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-08
CROPS DOING FINELY.
Very Little Fear Of the Caterpillar
Now-The Up-River Crops.

NoW-The Up-River Crops.
Factors advices from the crops have been
very meager during the past few days, ex-
cept that letters from Florida corroborate
the reports Of heavy rains. The sea island
crop is fully three weeks late, and is pro-
crossing very slowly towards maturity. 1t
IS said that the bottom crop is very small,
while the middle crop is about matured,
/ and is scant.
All the danger apprehended from the
| ca terplilar il expected to be TO the top crop.
| The second brood has been webbed up, but
is expected out in about week. It is gen.
orally fifteen days before the worms come
QUE OF the web, so that there is ample time
| for them to damage the top crop. There is
no danger to the cotton which has already
matared.
1t IS believed that if the caterpillar will
only attack the leaves, it will do good. as 1t
removes the leaves covering the balls and
allows the sun to get at them, assisting
| them to mature more rapidly, especially
| the bottom crop.
SO far as the upland crop is concerned
fac ors think that all danger from caterpil-
lars Is past, as the crop is too far advanced
toward maturity, and picking will be very
general In about a wesk, and the only
danger to be apprehensive Of is repetition
of last years storms.
Tho crop is already coming to market
very rapidly, and the movement to the
ports last week was quite heavy. The sta
tistIcal position of rough Peruvian cotton IS
said to be remarkably strong. The visi-
BILE supply, according to the New
York Journal Of Commerce., is only
about s, 500 bales. The latest reports from
Peru state that stocks there are completely
| exhausted, every bale having been ex-
ported They further state that owing to
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again be very moderate and shipments will
probably not commence until October and
November. Consumption is steadily in
creasing in Europe and in the United
States.
This class of cotton is close competitor
OF Florida long staple cotton, and dealers
think it very advisable for planters TO rush
their cotton to market. as it is expected
that there will be heavy demand, owing
to the exhaustion of stocks of fine eettons at
the mills
Francis Hart. of Hart Bros. has returned
from weeks drive through Hampton
county, South Carolina, on a business trip,
and he says that he has never seen better
crops than this year, although it is his
| custom t. mako annual visits to that sec
ton about this season.
All of the planters in the Savannah valley
in Hampton county say that if there is no
repetition Of last years flood they will har
vest big crops Of cotton, cane, rice, corn,
peas, and sweet potatoes. Mr. Hart says
that heavy crops of corn have been raised,
and planters in that section will not have
to buy any grain during the winter or
spring.
IL have never seen such beautiful rice as
the upland rice in Hampton county, said
Mr. Hart land the cotton will not only
yield we'll, but will be of a better quality
than last year. Our advices from the tier
of Georgia aud South Carolina counties in
the Savannah valley are to the effect that
remunerative crops will amply repay the
planters for their time, labor and outlay,
and 60 far to relieve them of the embarrasS-
ments which last years food caused SO
many of them.
| G.. A. Brown, an Intelligent colored plan
ter OF Egypt, who was in the city yester
| day aud sold some of his cotton at 10M
| cents, says that the cotton, rice and cane
crops in Etfingham, Scriven and Bulloch
counties are very fine. The July rains re-
| duced the yisld of his cotton about one
third, but he still has good yield, and will
have top-cotton this year, something that
the planters in this section did not have
last year. He says there will be an i'm
mense pea crop this fall, and while the
sweet potato vines had too much rain,
which will tend to reduce the yield, the
crop will be a very large one.
Capt. John Morrison of Oak Hill, on the
Savannah and Western railroad, says that
he never saw such crops as they have IN
Northwestern South Carolina and North
eastern Georgia on his recent trip. He says
that the South Carolina planters up there
are competing for the $4,000 prize offered
for the best acre of corn, and one of the
prize acres in particular, in
Oconee county, attracted his attention
and almost staggered belief that such corn
could be grown in the south. He says it will
produce l25 bushels to the acre, and he took
occasion to praise it to a fellow-passenger
ON the train, who laughed mockingly, and
added that it was very fair patch, but
that his brother who is also competing for
the big prize, could discount that field of