The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-03-16
MONTHLY CROP REPORT
or Commissioner of AgricuI-
lure, Labor and Statistics.

luIOJ LdDOi anu OhohobiNo'
We have had an unusual warm
winter, very much like spring up
70 January oath and 10Th, when the
thermometer dropped down to
eight and ten degrees below zero.
Grains OF all kinds were looking
very fine, and wheat in many
places was looking too forward.
Some correspondents think that
the freeze Of the 25th injured the
wheat to some extent, but many
others think the cold weather just
before the snow did more harm
than the first freeze. Wheat was
badly lifted out of the ground IN
all poor spots, but the snow follow
ing just after the freeze was "A very
great advantage. The condition
of the present crop on March LIST is
placed at 80 per cent.
Correspondents report an unusu-
nj amount Of corn ground broke for
this spring planting. This plan OF
fall and winter blowing is being
adopted more and more every year.
1t is very beneficial to the soil to
turn under green stubble in the
fall, aud the ground is in such fine
fix for planting in the spring. The
value OF the corn crop for 1898 is
estimated at $j9l ,625.G27, and al
though 1t Is only small fraction
short In bushes, comparatively, its
money value to the farmer will be
$50,0OO,000 less. The corn crop in
Kentucky was very short In most
parts of the State, but the farmers
began to husband it very early
many of them feeding their hogs
on wheat, thereby saving a large
part of their crop for winter purpo-
SEES, and to-day it is worth very lit
tie more than it was last fall.
HoGs.-The number OF hogs il
Kentucky has increased since my
report twelve months ago; then !
was 70 per cent; now it is PLACED
at 81.
CATTLE.-The number Of cattl'
!. for market in tine State is estimat
t ed at 81 per cent. The Government
report indicates small per cent
! increase over last year, and price
not so good. The condition Of cal
q tie in the State is placed at % pc
9 cent.
ToBAUco.-From present indicf
II lions, preparations are being mad
for a full average tobacco crop,
e have had large demands for sect
many from parties to whom ! sen
- seed last year. The average farr
m price for tobacco for December La
was 7.6.
u CONDITION OF FARMERs.-ln al
~ swer to two questions as to the
rg nanclal condition of the farmers
the State; First. What per cent.
OF the farmers Of your Co.are in deb
" A large number OF correspondent
rs answered, the average per cent !
rs ing57. Second. Is their indeAto
le- ness larger or smaller than it W
rs three years ago? TO this questi'
:, ~ there were only IS answers, thirt
VS. five larger and twenty three smi
Ter. One correspondent, from
ny large tobacco county, said one eau
,so of the farmer being more in debt
oil because OF so much tobacco bel
vet ON hand, which this time abe
. one year ago sold well, but there
no animation in the market now.
SHEEP.-There seems TO be
a. very marked decline in the price
men all kinds of sheep, especially
'f FS- breeding. ewes. Since Janua
ion. 1898, the decline is estimated at
and per cent.
las as FRUIT.-As to whether the Fl
inter- Is killed, the answers of the corr
! er Ts. pondents are ver$ varied. Th
rood were seventeen answered injur
pied sixteen, not injured; thirty-se
lou, s.,l answered, peaches all killed,
ts a only thirteen out Of hundred
- an "a fifty answered that apples
small fruit were killed. |, tn
il INV fore, conclude that the pc
' ',',... crop Is killed, and that apples
ana small fruit pre- safe, 80 far.
!, cG n. NICHOLAS MCDOWELL,
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