The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-11
COTTON MUCH TOO CHEAP
IT IS BRINGING ONLY 7 $40 CENTS
AT THE GIN

Planters Complaining That This Fails
70 Paw the Cost of Production-An
Almost Unequalled Season for Har-
vesting Reported-The Prices Other
Crops Are Bringing.
WASHINGTON, Dec. lO.-The cotton re-
turns of December to the department Of
agriculture relate to the average prices on
the plantations Complaint OF unremunera-
five values is general and the declaration
freouent that the crop does not return
the cost of production. A feeling OF dis
couragement pervades the reports, and a
disnosition TO reduce the area Is expressed.
The plantation price, which is the
actual rate for cotton sold at
Gin. averages 7.3 cents per pound. For the
i've wears preceding the range was from 5.
70 SO. and averaged nearly o.4 cents.
This decline is echoed IN the records OF
exuortation, which averaged IN October a
value Of SO cents, against IL. IL cents for
October Of last year, q drop OF IL per cent.
The state averages are as follows: Vir-
ciuia cents, North Carolina IA cents, South
Carolina IA cents, Georgia "a cents, Florida
"a cents. Alabama IS cents Mississippi 7.3
cents. Louisiana rs cents, Texas Z. cents,
Arkansas T. 8 cents, Tennessee :. 3 cents.
An almost unexsmpled season for har-
vesting is reported, with packing, ginning
and marketing far advanced While the
fiber is at many points short 1t is clean and
OF good color.
PRICES OF OTHER CROPS.
The returns Of the statistical reporters OF
the department Of agriculture for December,
duly consolidated, make the average farm
value Of the current crops of the year:
Corn, 422 cents per bushel wheat, IS. 8 !;
rye, IA; barley. $40; oats. SAP; buck
wheat, $40; potatoes, 37.1; tobacco, cigar
leaf, IA per pound; manufacturing and
export leaf, rs cents; hay, IS 80 per ton.
The condition Of growing wheat is re-
portsd Of S5.3.
The price Of corn is 80 cents per busheI
more than the average of ten years from
1880, and only 40 cents less than the aver
age for the decade from 1870. In the states
of largest production the prices are as fol-
lows: Ohio IL cents, Indiana IS cents. nh-
nois 81 cents. Iowa 80 cents, Missouri So
cents. Kansas "a cents, Nebraska 20 cents.
The latter state. where corn is cheapest, has
reported higher value only four times in
fifteen years, the average value In 1887 and
1890. when the yield was only about twenty
bushels per acre.
VALUE OF WHEAT.
The value of the wheat crop is as
cents per bushel higher than the
dNAdk6 VI ICu EGotb lEOlu 1OoU ana
has been exceeded only once Din
1888 since 1888. In the states Of the Allan
tic coast and those on the gulf Of Mexico,
except Texas. the value is from 81 TO 81 Is;
in the Ohio valley from SIS TO 90 cents; be-
yond the Mississippi from 20 in North Da.
kota 70 81 cents in Iowa.
Only once since 1888 has the price Of oats
been as high as at present, 80. 2 cents, which
is l.S cents higher than the average of ten
years from 1880.
The prices of all cereals have been re-
markably sustained IN view OF the abund.
ance of production.
CONDITION OF WINTER GRAIN.
Returns showing the conditions OF the
coming crops Of winter grains are not gen
orally favorable. On the Atlantic coast
some injury is reported on early sown areas
from the Hessian fly. The season was not
favorable for seeding In the south on &C.
count of continued dry weather, and
termination was slow from the same cause.
Rains in the late autumn have improved the
prospect.
In the western states seeding was late.
the seed bed hard and cloddy, termination
slow and the growth feeble until November
when material Improvement was seen in
most fields In some districts the Hessian
dy made its appearance. causing some dam
age. The average of the condition of the
crop is s5.3. The figures for the
principal states of the great wheat
belt are: Ohio 80, Michigan 90, Indiana
81. Illinois so, IIowa go, Missouri 70, Kar-
sas IS, Nebraska 90. California 81. The
average for New York is 81, Pennsylvania
90. Maryland 81, Virginia So, Georgia Sc,
Texas 20
The condition of rye is a little higher
than that OF wheat, making an average Of
SIS.