The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-11
CORN MADE SOME GAINS
SPRING WHEAT'S SHOWING WAS
UNUSUALLY POOR.
SWEET POTATOES DECLINED DURING July
Tobacco Declined Eleven Points inky., Six in
Tenn and Mo-, Three In Va. and Pa,
improving Five in this State
,,d MarvIand
and Maryland,

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Washington, Aug. 1o-The monthly
report Of the statstician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows the average
condition of cotton on August LIST to have
been 81; as compared with SIS on July
/; 91.2 on August LIST, 1893: 500 mt the
corresponding date in 1897, and S5.S. the
mean of the August averages for the last
ten years.
There was a decline during July
amounting to ) points in North Caro-
lima, 10 in South Carolina, 6 in Georgia,
Alabama and Texas, 4 i'm Tennessee and
2 in Missouri. On the other hand, there
was an Improvement of point in Louis
lana. of points IN Virginia, Oklahoma
and Indian Territory, of points i'm
Florida and Mississippi, and of points
in Arkansas.
The averages of the different States on
August 1st were as follows:
Virginia, So: North Carolina. SO; South
Carolina, rs; Georgia, 10; Florida. 93;
Alabama, 80; Mississippi and Missouri
Louisiana, Arkansas. ST; Texas, 81;
Tennessee, 81; Oklahoma, so; Indian
Territory, 93.
The Texas report includes the condition
in the recemtly submerged region. spc-
cial report ON which is almost ready for
publication.
REPORT OF OTHER CROPS.
Washington, Aug. 10.-The August re-
port of the statistician OF the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows the following
averages of condition ON August first:
Corn, 800; spring wheat, $3.50; oats.
90S; barley, 1916; spring rye. $50; buck
wheat, 49,; potatoes, $50; timothy hay,
S6.7.
The average condition of corn improv-
ed 81 points during July, and on August
LIST it was 90 points higher than at the
corresponding date last year, 81 points
higher than on August 1st 1897, and
3D. points above the mean of the August
averages for the last ten years. The
averages in the principal States are as
follows:
Ohio, 30; Indiana, 81; Illinois, 81;
Iowa, 50; Missouri IS; Kansas, Jog:
Nebraska, 90
The average condition of spring wheat
declined 81 points during July and on
August 1st it was 129 points lower than
in the corresponding date last year, 81
points lower than on August LIST, 1897.
and 8 points lower than the mean of the
August averages for the last ten years.
The condition in the principal States is
as follows:
Minnesota, 90: Iowa. 80: Nebraska, &c:
South Dakota, 81; North Dakota. So,
Washington, So: Oregon, 81.
The average condition of oats improy
ed s point during July, and ON August
first it was 66 points higher than at the
corresponding date last year, As points
higher than on August 1st, 1897 and
S.3 points above the mean of the Au-
gust averages for the last ten years. The
averages in the principal States are as
follows
New York, 90; Pennsylvania. 9S; Ohio
and Missouri, SO: Michigan, 100; Indiana
and Wisconsin, 90; Illinois, 102: MINES
ota, 30: Iowa, 81; Kansas, So, and Ne
braska 81.
The proportion of the oat crop Of last
year still in the hands of farmers is es-
timated at 90 per cent. as compared with
Ga per cent of the crop of 1897 in farm
ers' hands one year ago and 10.1 per
cent of the crop of 1886 in farmers
hands two years ago.
The average condition of barley inn
proved 1.6 points during July. and on
August 1st it was 14.3 points higher
than at the corresponding date last year,
81 points higher than ON August 1st.
1897 and SO points above the mean of
the August averages for the last ten
years. The condition in the principal
States is as follows:
New York and Minnesota, %; Wis
consin, SO; Iowa and North Dakota, 81
South Dakota, 80; California. 81.
The average condition Of spring rye
declined z points during July and on Au-
81 1St xrae a = rlai,afc laxvav tI,a n at
the corresponding date last year, g points
lower than on August LIST, 1897, but still
10 aboye the mean of the August aver
ages for the last 10 years. In Wiscon-
sin which State produces more than one
half of the entire spring rye crop, the
condition on August 1st was 3d.
Preliminary returns indicate an in
crease of seven eighths of one per cent
in the acreage in buckwheat as compar-
ell with last year. There is an apparent
increase of per cent in New York, and
OF 2 per cent in Pennsylvania The
average condition of buckwheat is six
points higher than at the corresponding
date last year and Z point lower than
on August 1st. 1897, and D points above
the mean of the August averages for the
last ten years.
The average condition of potatoes de-
clined 8 point during July, but is still
81 points higher than on August LIST.
1897: 15.1 points higher than ut the cor
responding date in 1897 and 60 points
ABOVE the mean of the August aver
ages for the last ten years.
OF the 13 principal sweet potato
States, eight report a decline during
July, and four an Improvement, while
in one, North Carolina the condition re-
mains about the same.
Preliminary returns indicate a reduc
tion of 3.4 per cent in the hay acreage.
OF the States moving one million acres
or upward last year, only Missouri. Kan
sas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Cali
forna showed an increased acreage. The
condition of timothy hay is 1876 points
below that of last year.
The average condition of tobacco has
declined eleven points in Kentucky, six