Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-12-14
KENTUCKY CROP REPORT.
Condition Of Crops ana Live stock Deceu.
Der Isl. 1897.

Condition Of Crops ana Live Stock Decem.
Der Ia, 1897,
For this month 1856 correspondents
reported from 50 counties.
WHEAT.
The month of November has been
unusually favorable to the growth of
the wheat crop and as a result con-
siderable portion has reached WI at
is considered an advanced stage, con-
sidering the very late start it made.
The general tenor Of remarks Of
correspondents is that the crop prom
ises well and few consider the out.
look very fine. OF course much will
depend upon what is met With dur
ing the winter in the way of sudden
and hard freezes when unprotected
by snow.
Should the crop be visited with the
average amount of hardship during
the winter the result may be disast.
rOus.
Considerable wheat was sown dur
ing November, the acreage, compared
with 1896, having increased from 80
per cent on November 1st, to 103 on
December LIST. The returns from
Assessors reports show the acreage
1896 as 6ll629 acres; the estimated
acreage for 1897 would, therefore, be-
657,97S.
Corn is reported cribbed without
damage since maturity. Many cor.
respondents report the crop light and
chaffy, and not yielding as well as in
Dictated earlier. As TO quality "a cor
respondents report it good, II aver
age and 36 bad. The yield for the
State averages a So bushels per acre.
In 1896 the average yield was u bur
The acreage by the returns of the
County ASS essoTs is 2,220,36S ACRES
Taking now the estimated average
yield of 24,55 bushels per acre, gives
a total of 54,509,038.
HEMP
The number of correspondents re-
porting hemp appears TO gradually
decrease. The estimated yield per
acre is S39 lbs. In 1896 the average
wac l,045 lbs. On quality report il
good, 2 an average and | bad.
LIVE STOCK.
The condition of all live stock
shows an improvement during the
month. The condition of horses is
95; cattle, 81; sheep, 81 and hogs "a.
On November lst these conditions
were 81, 81, 80 and 81.
a WARNING
Information has reached me that
Australian rabbits are being kept as
pets in this and other sections of the
State. | feel it my duty to call the
attention of those owning these APP
parently harmless little creatures to
their wonderful powers of destruction
and the rapidity with which they in
crease in numbers The female
brings forth her young, to 6 in num-
Der, every month. 1t can easily be
seen that a single pair turned loose
would in year or two make them
selves felt in that section and would
rapidly spread to adjoining sections.
They are especially destructive to
young orchards and garden crops.
Being burrowing animal it is an
easy matter for them to tunnel
the enclosure intended
for their confinement. The English
sparrow nuisance from which we are
now suffering should serve as an OBJ
ject lesson against the importation of
any more foreign pests.
The publication OF the monthly
crop reports will close with this issue
until the opening of the growing sea-
son next spring,
desire to express my thanks aud
the obligations of the Bureau to the
correspondents throughout the State
and to solicit their further valuable
services when the work is resumed.
LUCAS MOORE,
Commissioner of Agriculture.