The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23
.SAVANNAH'S RICE CROP.
The acreage in This Section Has
Decreased.

But the Product Is in a Good Condi-
ton and the Yield Will be a Large
one-About 10000 Acres Planted,
and $4,000 Bushels Expected.
Harvesting Has Begun and With
Clear Weather All the Early Rice
viii Be in Within Ten Days.
The rice crop in the fields tributary to
Savannah, and from which the product
is marketed here, is in excellent condi-
ton, say the planters, and it is believed
it will be harvested without loss or seri-
Gus damage Of any kind.
Estimates of the acreage around Savan-
nah put it about 10000 acres. Some of
the planters think there is a little more
and others a little less, but they are
agreed that the yield will be somewhere
in the neigh of $4,000 bushels,
and in fact, that is looked on as pretty
close estimate
The rice planters for the last three
years have had a series of storms and I'M
fortunate weather conditions to contend
with, and the consequence has been that
they have gone little slow about plant
ing this year. In 1898 the acreage was
about 1000 acres, but many of the
planters did not care to risk it again this
year after losses for the last three years,
and in conseq uence the acreage was con-
siderably reduced as is seen from the
foregoing estimate, which is generally
considered very accurate.
HARVESTING IN PROCESS.
The crop is being harvested now as
rsg,rn a Iva IL II E.
BILE weather continues for the next week
or ten days it is safe to say that all of the
early rice will have been harvested. So
far the receipts at this port have not gone
over $4,000 or $1,000 bushels. The June
rice will come on next month, but there
Is not as large crop of it as usual, and
not near so large crop as there is of
the early rice. The rainy weather which
has prevailed recently in this sec
tion has done no material damage
with the exception of the flooding of a
few rice fields on the Satilla river, which
will not be great III extent 1t has him
dered harvesting to some extent how
ever, and if it had not been for severe
rainy weather no doubt larger portion
OF the crop would have been marketed be-
fore this time. The rice is showing up
well in quality and prices continue good
and encouraging. The Louisiana crop
| this year is coming on well, and is esti-
mated at about 100000 bags or about
100000 bushels.
THE TOLD CROP 100000 BUSHELS.
The total crop for the year is estimated
at about 100000 bushels, about 1000. 900
of which are grown on the Atlantic coast
An estimate of what the receipts will be,
made by a well posted rice man is: Savan-
nah 100000 bushels, Wilmington $4,000,
Newburn $50 900, Georgetown 55O,0 and
| Charleston about 100000. OF course
| these estimates are rough, but they are
as accurate as can be made on the in
| formation from these sections now OBJ
| tainable.
There is no reason to believe that the
year will be bad one for prices The
! yield is not unusually large and the quail
| ity is good. In fact, the rice men look for
a rather prosperous year. OF the amount
received at Savannah, about one-ffth or
perhaps little more Is shipped away and
the balance is used by the wholesale mer-
chants here in supplying their trade.
This is what is called the strictly Georgia
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