Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-22
CORN AND COTTON.
Detailed Report AS to Their Condi-
ton for Harvest.
Both the Great Staples of the west and
South Badly Damaged d-Conditien OF
the Crops in the Great
Surplus States,

| WASHING ToS, eept. 1.-THE monthly
| crop reports, which are issued by the
department of agriculture, always are
OF great interest during the harvest
! months fthe year. Not only are they
watched for with eagerness by the
| agricultural interests of the country.
but they play an important part in
| sh aping the course of financial move
| ihento. During most of the year only
| general bulletins find their way ihto
print, stating the general condition of
various crops in the several states. The
report, however, for the month of Sep
tember will be one of general interest
throughout the south and west; es=
pecially where it touches Mpdh tie
corn and cotton crops, the two great
/ western end southern staples
The corn crop, which is given below
in reports from the separate counties
of the states III Question, shows the
lowest condition for the month of Sep
tember since 1881. The decline has
been very decided in all of the surplus
corn states except Illinois. The cause
of this sadden reduction was per-
s,stent and unprecedented drought,
supplemented in Nebraska, Kansas and
Iowa by scorching winds. Az an effect
of the extreme drought special report
from Indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Nebraska and South
Dakota shows that out of 40, S73, ,9S4
acres planted, Is, 500, 900 acres, or SO per
cent, have been abandoned or cut up
for fodder. This is loss of 20 per cent.
of the entire corn average,
The corn report from Texas BY coun-
| ties is as followsi
! Cameron county, present planting promises
| good returns Coke short at least 80 per cent
| by hot winds Harrison, injured by rains Free
| stone, injured by drought; Clay, never better
| Cleveland about 81 per cent crop: Kaufman,
injured by drought; Montgomery, cut and short
! owing to drought; Wise not doing we'll; dry
! weather has reduced yield wonderfully; Bexar,
nearly all gathered since the August rains
Bowie, early planting good Cass in fine con-
ditfon, largest yield for years; Hall. injured by
drought Leon, average crop: Matagorda ex-
cessive rains for the past two months have
badly injured crops; Blaine, satisfactory; Clay.
badly damaged by sweat Hopkins in
! jured by drought and hot winds in July
Taylor, drought will cut down crop 80
per cent; Austin, poor and short;
| Burnet, Shriveled very much, cOnSe-
| quently very light; Ford, good crop, good
! quality; KaneS cut short by droughts; Mills,
| gathering now in progress; Brown, will not
make more than one-twentieth OF crop; Cole
man. harvested yield is light and quality poor
/ Comanche, needing rain.
Following are the returns by coun-
ties from the cotton crop:
| TEXAS
Bosque county, injured by boil worms and
sharpshooters; Coke, cut short 80 per cent. by
boil worms and drought; Harrison, affected by
rust; Llano, injured by drought Marion abun-
! dance of rain, but complaint of rust; Morris,
! looking fine; Live Oak, cotton worm doing
| much damage; Freestone, injured by drought
and rust; Anderson, with fine weather the top
| crop will be good as first crop, plant is now
| f1ourishing; Lee, damaged by rains and boil
worms, outlook discouraging; Goliad, pros
| pect for fine top crop; Lavaca, wet
weather been destructive bolls rot
| ting and worms doing much damage;
| Bexar, doing well: Clay. very good;
| Cleveland, about three-fourth crop; Kaufman,
| boll-worms have appeared, but large crop is
| assured; Montgomery. condition is equal to
| last year, but yield will not reach that OF last
| year, no worms as yet, two-thirds crop: Whar-
! ton rain has injured crop, some crop de-
stroyed: Runnels, owing to recent rains the
| prospect is fine; Stephens, an average yield;
| Macon, doing well; Bowie, has fallen off con-
| SlQeTaDly OWING 10 DOll-WOTulS anu uTOuSul-
| late planting looks promising: Stonewall, some
| damage by worms; Wise, boll-worms at work
| on bottom lands crop will be cut short at least
| half; Bexar, prospect good for a large crop;
Cass, promises a large yield some black rust
! in sandy soil and red rust or blight in balance,
| boll-wormS are at work, causing much dam
! age; Frio, looking fine plenty of rain; Kendall,
suffered from long drought, but late rains re-
| vived it; Leon damaged by rust and boil
| worms. Matagorda, rotting badly in the bolls,
! due to the rains; Pamela, damaged by rust;
| Victoria. suffering from boil rot Hood. badly
damaged by boil worms and rain; Jones, boil
| and leaf worms damaging crop; Camp, boil
| worms have appeared, causing much damage;
| Clay badly damaged by drought in some sec
| tions, others too wet and injured by boil worms
| and Sharpshooters; Ellis, outlook very favor
| able, heavy rains and cloudy weather have
| started a rapid growth and caused shedding OF
| squares: Hill, damaged by boil worms; Hop
| kins, rain and boil worms injured crop, but
| with a favorable fall good yield may be given;
| Nolan. stand poor, too much weed and very
| late Red River considerable damage by boil
| worms and sharpshooters; Shackleford, some
| damage by boil worms: Van Zandt, on account
| OF rain has large stalk. but not full
| fruited; San Augustine. too much rain;
| Taylor. fine weed, fruitng WE'LL boil
worms have appeared and should they
continue their work, crop will be al
| most failure, Angelina, wet weather has
| caused falling of, if shedding and rust con-
| tnue much longer crop will be fatlure Aus
/ tin damaged from wet weather. causing over
| growth rotting and shedding. no worms Bur-
| net affected by boil worms: Ford, doing well
| and an average crop: Karnes, growing fast,
| blooming, putting on squares, good prospect
| for heavy top crop; McLennan- affected by boil
worms; Brazos, picking is now general gener-
| al average now cut of by drought; Collin, boil
worms have lowered prospect to half crop:
johnson. boil worms causing great destruc-
| tion; Upshur, fallen of since last report
| Brown, damaged by worms and drought, some
| fields hardly worth picking: Coleman, have
greatly improved in condition and growing
wonderfully, it is now subject to damage from
| boil worms and sharpshooters; Caldwell,
very greatly injured by drought Co
manche, damaged by overfows, boil and
! army worms: Fisher, very promising but for
| boil worms; Medina, doing very well since late
rains; Nueces since late rains outlook very
much improved; Burleson rain rotting crop
ARKANSAS
| Poinset county, damaged by drought; Stone,
has shed squares aud boils from drought, Gar
land. small but well formed; Pope, badly dam