Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-27
CROP REPORT.
Cotton In Healthy Condition-1he Yield
the same as Last Year.
Reports From eoun correspondents In Texas
The Estim ted Yield Per Acre Placed
at l96 Punn,s.

Correspondence Of the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24--The crop re-
port for November issuad by the aeri-
cultural department gives the average
rate of yield as 1919 bushels per acre.
Cotton was healthy, the yield being the
same as Inst year. The estimated yield
per acre in Texas was 1876 pounds. County
correspondents is Texas report as fol-
lows:
Texas-Austin: Increase in bales; yield
is better per ARE. Bosque: Crop has
improved during the last few weeks 20
per cent. July aud August drou,h cut
il short; September rams have helped 1t
out. Holmes: Crop has been injured
by wet weather, cotton boiis rotting on
the stalk. Wharton: Yield OF cotton
cut short by continued rains during De-
tober, causing me unripe boils TO rot.
Parker: Has improved during the last
month: picking is about over. Gusda-
lupe: No frost; crop doing well. Run
nels: Prospect very good. Stephens:
Very light, but an increase over lnsr
year. Hood: Is turning out extremely
we'll; the plant is short but full. Waller:
Picking has just fairly begun; too much
rain has caused great Inconvenience to
farmers. Clay: Turning out much bet
ter than was expected one mouth ago.
J rkson: The weather hus materially
damaged cotton. Jones: Much i'm
proved by September rnius: have hal no
frost; 10 worms; Sensnn favorable for
picking. Mason: VIII yell about one
Thrill Of a bule per acre; lint Sooi aud
free from trash. Cherokee: An OF yehr
for cotton: too much rain. Falls:
Light, owing to drouth and INJURY done
by the wetvil. Pamela: Seriously III
jured by rust in some loralitis'; pick in g
retarded by ruin, making the lint sandy
aud njur!ng the quality. Grimes: Ex-
cessive rains have damaged the crop.
Frio: Three hundred pounds lint TO
the acre: not ull harvested. Fine
weather for picking. Delta: Great i'm
proveneut over last year. Coleman;
Yielding little better than usual.
Caldwell: Cotton is all gathered ami
about marketed. McMullen: Top crop
n failure. johnson: Weather IL favor
able Tor gathering; crop has improved
five points: Webb: Short. OH account
Of drouth. Limestone: Looking fine;
pick ing about over Collins: Less than
half crop. Very bad season for saving
il, owing to wind and rain storms. Ellis:
No frost heavy enough TO lnjure the cot
ton; if favorable weather continues q
good top crop will be gathered. Gray
son: A favorable fall or II late freeze
will add one-fourth TO the cotton crop.
Hill: Picking has been retarded 10y wei
weather, which will reduce the quality
ami quantity. Robertsou: Three
fourths of the crop is gathered. Scurry'
Cut short first by drcuth, then
by boll-worms. White: VIII be
HboYs sSaRpsaverage crop; will be late
AZ 94kg unless the weather is very
sfavoruble. Wise: Still II chance for top
crop of cotton; no frost yet and one
more month wi hout frost will consiier-
ably improve aggregate yield. Upshur:
Very little gathered, Is rain retarded
the picking. Matagorda: Cut short by
worm and wet weather; will not average
70 per cent. of Il crop 10 the acreage
planted. McLennan: Rain hns delayed
picking. Live Oak: All picked and
ginned. knufnan: Has turned out
better than was anticipated, N king a
top-rroD in many instances. Kerr :
Shortage due to the long-contiunei
droutn. Medina: Last yenr's average
Weld was ago pounds, this year 2S0; a
good many of the cotton holls have not
opened yet. Montgomery: The crop is
nearly all gathered, Eirned and sold :;
quality good. Bas,rop: The weather
has been unusually good for cotton; the
worm disappeared without mucn damage
after eating off the leaves: Rotwith-
standing this draw back the crop would
have been so per cent. more could it
have been well worked. Brazos: About
two-thirds gathered; weather dry and
cool De Witt: Some improvement in
the prospect of cotton the top or 'fall ~
crop making more, and If the fall con-
tiuues open the crop will still improve.