The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1896-08-27
SHORT CROPS.
Rain, Drought and Heat Have Done
The Work.
NORTH CAROLINA.

State crop bulletin issued to-day says
the past week was more favorable FOL
crops and especially for farm work than
any since the middle of July, owing to
the beneficial rains at many points
and temperature being below normal
The extent to which cotton is cut Oh
is variously estimated at from % to 81
per cent. Shedding continues on san
dy lands. It is opening rapidly and
will all be picked by the middle OF oc-
tober. Rain is needed to mature the
bolls.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia, S. c., Aug. 23.-The dl-
rector of the State Bureau of the Unit
ed States Weather and Crop Service
said in his last report "From all por-
lions of the State come the reports OF
deterioration, due to excessive heat and
want of rain. Not single report was
received, but it is stated that cotton is
failing. So general and extended is
the injury done by the want of rain
that only Sea Island cotton escaped
and that is ripening prematurely."
GEORGIA.
Atlanta, Ca, Aug. Or. T. Nesbitt,
commissioner of agriculture, reports as
follows on the condition of the Georgia
cotton crop:
The early planted cotton Cabout half
the crop) started off we'll and made a
good crop, which is now matured and
is being picked. The balance of the
crop, however, came up late on account
of the dry April and May. This late
cotton made rapid growth and up to
August l looked very promising, but
without any matured bolls. Excessive
ly hot and dry weather of the past
three weeks has ruined this cotton,
causing shedding of leaves, forms and
young bolls and leaving only a few
half-grown bolls on stalks. Rains now
can do this cotton but little good un-
ess there should be an unusu-
lilly late fall, when possibly little
;op crop might be made. On August
LIST the crop promised splendidly all
,ver Georgia, but now it will be agree
IDLY surprising if the State makes 20
Der cent. OF crop.
LOUISIANA.
-sBaton Rouge, La, Aug. 22.-The
GLOWING statement of the crop in
louisiana swas made to-day by G. G.
lee, commissioner of agriculture of
louisiana:
The cotton crop throughout the
tate has been cut short for the past
hree weeks from 10 to 80 per cent.
he uplands Oh hill sections of the
tate, embracing the parishes of Union,
claiborne, Webster, Blenville, Jackson,
'aldwell, Vim, Grant, Lincoln, West
IN Catahpula, Western Ouachtia, part |
f Morehouse, Bossior, Nathcitrous, Sa-
inc, De Soto and Caddo are short from
0 to 80 per cent. It is in these par
hes that the drought, with the exces-
We hot weather of the past four or five
'eeks has prevailed and almost COM
Iete failure is the result in the parish
J above named.
AlIuvial parishes are short from 81
, 45 per cent. Rapideses is from %
, IS per cent. short, as is also Caddio,
ossler, st. Landry, Pointcoupee and
Vest Fellciana and East Feliciana
D per cent. short. The Florida par
hes are from 40 to so per cent. short.
last years crop at 100, the
,tal crop Of the State this year will
OF be oyer so to 60 per cent.
TENNESSEE.
Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 22.-The State
of agriculture has not
card from more than half his agents
/ the counties in regard to the crop
atistics TOR the month of August.
An estimate based upon the returns
ON these counties and casual infor-
lation from other places, the crop is
ut at obout 30 per cent. of the average.
he effects OF the protracted heat and
rought are painfully apparent in the
amage to the corn and cotton crops.
nd it is not unlikely that so per cent.
too high an estimate for these sta
les. Later returns, however, may ma
srially alter these figures.