Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-11
NArIoNAL oRop nEpoRrs.

|
 fled by the Continual Drought fin August-The Condition of Winter l Wheat Less Favorable-TheL Lowest
 Condition of Oats Ever Reported for September-Less Favorable Returns for Cotton.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.-The national crop reports for September show that the injury to the corn crop reported last month was intensified by continual drought in August until the rains came to it's relief. but too late for full recovery The average is 70.1, against 73.30 last month. It is the lowest average since 1881. The returns of condition of winter wheat at the time of harvesting are less favorable than those of the 1st of July. So far as threshing has progressed the results are generally dis appointing. The July average was 76.2; the present average 73.5. The general av craze of spring wheat has also been re- duced from s3.2 to 79.s The average for wheat of both kinds is 75.5. In 1888 the September average for wheat was 77. It was 72 in 1884, The yield of spring wheat is unusually variable in the Dakotas, rang ing from high yields to five and less bush els per acre. The progress of threshing will develop the extent of these differences. On the coast from New Jersey to Mary land and in North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri, as also in northern New England and Florida, there is improvement in corn since Au- gust 1. In Michigan, Wisconsin and ln- diana, and in Georgia, Alabama, Louisi- ans and Texas, condition is unchanged. A decline occurred in New York, Ohio, Illi- nois, and in all the northwestern states and in some others of less importance. The crop is late in the eastern states, requiring maturing weather throughout September. It is also late and variable in development in New York and Pennsyl- vania. The Atlantic coast states return relatively high condition, impaired locally by the effects of midsummer drought and | later storms In Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas drought more or less severe from the 20th of June to the middle | of August reduced the condition too low | for subsequent recovery, as the crop was maturing or ripe before rains came. The Ohio valley and the Missouri valley report protracted drought and low condition. While the rains of | the last two weeks of August have been beneficial nearly everywhere they | have not always restored the losses of the | first half of the month. In the bottom lands, where growth was maintained, the recent rainfall will make a good crop, while the drier uplands were beyond re- | covery The lowest condition was in | Kansas, though some of the eastern coun- | ties make good returns. The Dakotas and Nebraska are little higher. The crop is late and will require as much time to ma ture on the attitudes of forty degrees as for the earlier varieties grown on the line of forty-two degrees. Rye yields less than
 was expected, as the condition as reported | is reduced to S5.4.
 | The September condition of oats is the lowest ever reported, having fallen from | 70.1 in August to CA. The rate of yield will be the smallest in twenty years. | The condition of barley is not very seri-
 ously lowered-from 82.S to 7S.6.
 Buckwheat has fully maintained its Au- gust condition, the average being 90.5, | against 90.1.
 I The figures for potatoes have fallen | since August from TIA to 65.7, the low
 est average reported, that of 1887 being | 67.3.
 | Tobacco has improved materially during
 the month, the average being SPA, much
 better than in the August report, but low
 CT than the July condition.
 The reported percentage for fattening
 swine is 97 per cent, and their condition
 937.
 The statistical returns of the department
 of agriculture for September are less fla
 vorable for cotton than those of August
 The general average is reduced from S9.5
 to S5.5, which is fraction lower than the
 record of September, 1889. The state
 averages are: Virginia 93, North Carolins
 95, South Carolina ST, Georgia S6, Florids
 90, Alabama S4, Mississippi S7, Louisians
 93, Texas 77, Arkansas S9, Tennessee 94
 There is very little mention of the cater
 pillar but the boil worm has been unusual
 ly prevalent and active from Georgia tc
 Texas, and more injurious in the mort
 western portions of the belt.