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T5E SOUTHERN WORLD, AUGUST 16, 1882.
POSTAL CARD CORRESPONDENCE
Hour a Path, S. C.—The threshing of oats
and wheat is about over and there was a
good crop of both made throughout this
section of country. Messrs Harper & Mc
Cullough, of this place, traveled and thresh
ed 11,165 bushels of oats and wheat in 16
days or 728 bushels per day. They threshed
in all 14,000 bushels. Wheat selling from
$1.00 to $1.25 per bushel; oats 35 to 50
.tents per bushel; bacon 17 cents cash and
20 cents on time and scarce at that. Crops
are looking well considering the dry weath
er. Cotton is a little behind, but I think
with a good season there will not be a failure.
Gardens are about dried up. We have had
some very cool nights and mornings for the
time of year. The morning of the 5th of
July the thermometer was as low as 59°. A
few more days and the farmers will be done
laying by their crops and then be ready to
attend all the protracted and Political meet
ings throughout this county. M. T. Emin.
Darlington, S. C.—The oat crop here was
far ahead of an average since the war. Corn
is very promising that; planted in March
is silking rapidly. Cotton is looking well
but the stand 'was somewhat injured
by the cut worms from the first to the mid
dle of June. A great many peas have been
planted in corn and oat fields, and aro look
ingwell. Peaches are bountiful, apples not
so good. The stock law is all right with
thinking people. Credit business is very
brisk for this season. High prices.
Subscriber.
Phipps, Ala.—Corn crops are the best
known for years. Cotton a month late, but
doing finely. Very fine crops of oats and
wheat harvested this year. In fact, all crops
are good. This county will make a surplus
of corn. Farmers are jubilant over good
crops. Hog and hominy will be plentiful
next year. Success to the Southern World.
W. W. Phipps.
Nebraska Crops.
It is believed corn will be a big crop, what
ever may be the condition of the weather
from now on, barring only possible early
frosts along the Missouri river, many fields
will average fifty to eighty bushels to the
acre; as evidence of the uncommon maturity
of corn the ears of the field corn are al
ready in market with well developed ker
nels. Good judges estimate the average
yield at fifty bushels per acre, which, the
acreage being nearly two millions, will make
the gigantic total of 100,000,000 bushels of
corn in Nebraska this year. It must be re
membered, however that there is scarcely
any old corn in the State, and it Is doubtful
if much of the new crop will be shipped
eastward. It will be used largely at home
for stock and carried until the next year’s
crop is gathered. Many farmers this year
had to buy com, though they sold earlier
for much lower figures. About all the
other grain in the State is stacked. Where
the wheat has been threshed it has gone as
high as thirty-Ave bushels to the acre. Gen
erally speaking, the crop is a fine one, and
will not be less than 20,000,000 bushels. Oats
are a big crop though they suffered some
injury. Some fields show seventy-five bush
els to the acre. The average will be about
fifty. The latest report from Minnesota
show little ground for fear of injury having
been done yet by the wet weather.
Indlnna Crops.
The August crop bulletin of the State
Bureau of Statistics shows that the Indiana
wheat production is larger than ever before.
The total acreage is 2,659,843; total yield.
47.132.000 bushels. The acreage last year
was 3,710,547; producing 30,625,000. The
oat crop is the largest known, acreage, 634,
000; yield, 19,592,000 bushels, against 11,
399.000 last year. Hay is very fine with
large crop. Perhaps ten per cent, of the
acreage planted in corn has been abandoned.
The Western division reports the condition
seventy-four per cent., Central eighty-one,
Southern ninety-one. The total acreage is
3.062.000 against 3,135,000 last year.
OeorKln’M Crop Report.
The'July report of the Commissioner of
Agriculture, J. T. Henderson, of the condi
tion of crops in Georgia show the cotton
crop, as compared with an average to be 93
per cent. The caterpillar is reported in sev
eral counties. The corn crop is 20 per cent,
above an average. Field peas is 8 per cent,
above an average. Sweet potatoes 12 per
cent, above an average. Sugar cane 7 per
cent, above an average. The rice crop is
promising and the general outlook good.
Crop Reports.
Indian Corn.—The New York Commercial
Bulletin has reports of the corn crop from
the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan
sas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis
souri, Ohio and Wisconsin, showing that
with favorable weather, an average crop will
be made. The South will have an unpre
cedented crop.
The Chicago Timet, discoursing upon the
corn prospects, says: “The crop of 1879 was
over 309,000,000 bushels, and that of last year
was 176,000,000 bushels, and an average in
which one of these years entered would vary
considerably from one in which the other
entered. The acreage of the corn crop is 7,-
163,684, which is a falling ofT of nearly two
million acres from the area devoted to com
in 1881. At the same time the condition of
the plant in ail parts of the State is inferior
to what it was a year ago at this time. We
must be prepared, therefore, for a reduced
yield from a reduced area. With the same
yield as last year, the crop would amount to
about 140,000,000 bushels, but allowing for
an inferior yield, the crop for this present
year may be estimated at the very low fig
ures of 125,000,000 bushels, against 176,000,-
000 bushels a year ago, 262,000,000 bushels
two years ago, and 309,000,000 three years
ago. The prospect would indeed be dark for
Illinois farmers, were it not that wheat prom
ises an exceptionally good crop, and the
same is true of most other crops. Ohio pro
duced last year very nearly 80,000,000 bush
els of corn, but the prospect for this year is
poor, and the crop may be estimated at 65,-
000,000 bushels. In Indiana the crop will be
nearly equal to that of last year, and may be
75.000. 000 bushels. Iowa produced almost
the same amount of corn last year that this
State did, and the prospects this year are
very similar, it may be expected to produce
125.000. 000 bushels. In Missouri the corn
prospects are good and the State may be ex
pected to go a little ahead of the figures for
lust year, when it produced over 93,000,000
bushels, though the yield was only 16.5 bush
els per acre, less than half the yield of 1875.
The State should be good for 110,000,000
bushels at a modest estimate. Kansas au
thorities name 176.000,000 bushels os a reason
able expectation. Nebraska produced neurly
59.000. 000 bushels of corn last year, and as
there has probably been an increase of acre
age, it will be safe enough to put the State
down for 65,000,000 bushels. According to
these figures the seven States named will
produce 740,000,000 bushels of corn this year,
against 737,759,000 bushels last year.”
Wheat.—The reports of the wheat crop to
the New York Commercial Bulletin suggests a
yield surpassing all former years—600,000,-
000 bushels.
The wheat crop in Kentucky this year is
surpassing expectations. The whole state
crop is now estimated at 18,000,000 bushels,
against a range in former crops of from
7.000. 000 to 11,000,000 bushels. Ni mety cents
is the highest price offered by dealers.
The wheat harvest is nearly finished in
the four southern tiers of counties of Mich
igan, which furnisii 80 per cent, of the en
tire state. The indications are tiiat the crop
will considerably exceed that of 1880, when
the yield of Michigan was 31,000,000 bushels.
A St. Paul special says: As nenrly as it
can be arrived at by competentspeciai agents
and official statisticians of the acreage of the
wheat in Minnesota, the drift of the report
is that the wheat crop will be one of the
largest and best ever grown in the north
west. Oats will far exceed in quantity and
quality any previous yield. The barley is
of -the finest quality and color and corn
alone of all the grains is not a first-class
crop. Potatoes will yield enormous. The
grand total of the Minnesota wheat crop for
1882 will not be less than 38,000,000 bushels,
or an average of 2,473,000, against 30,000,000
bushels in 1881, or an average of 2,964,000.
The largest yield is twenty-four bushels per
acre in Carver county, and twelve bushels is
the lowest estimate. Goodhue county will
yield over three million bushels, Ottertail
nearly two millions, and a half dozen will
yield over one million. There has been
some rust and chinch bu'gs, but no grasshop
pers to note. The product of the State and
Dakota Territory is estimated at fifty-five to
sixty million bushels. The wheat commis
sion men are more conservative, but all
agree that the yield will greatly exceed last
year, and accept 38,000,000 for the State as a
moderate and fair estimate, and all reports
concur that there is even yet a fair show for
corn. The entire product of wheat along
the Northern Pacific lost year was 8,717,000;
this year it will not be less than 12,000,000.
The wheat crop is much of it already
gathered, and there is hardly a possibility
that the last of it will not be secured in fine
condition. It is confidently predicted that
the crop will amount to 500,000,000 bushels,
the greatest in the history of this country.
As it requires but 250,000,000 bushels to feed
our population and sow next year’s crop,
half of this year’s product will be available
for export. In 1880, England imported 67,-
500,000 bushels of our wheat, her annual re
quirement being 200,000,000 bushels, 83,500,-
000 of which she raises herself in an average
year. It may trouble us to find a satisfactory
market for such a vast surplus of wheat as
250,000,000 bushels. Besides wheat, the
barley and oat crop are now almost safe.
Their growth lias been luxuriant, and the
heads of those grains are full as well as long.
The hay crop is also safe. That is, its growth
has been all that could be wished, and much
of it is now safely in the barn. Corn, pota
toes and cottou are the only important crops
as to which there is much uncertainty. The
whole matter may be summed up by saying
that we are now sure of about one-half of a
great harvest and have abundant reasons to
be hopeful as to the other half.—New York
Hail.
The American Hiller says; There is not the
slightest doubt that the wheat crop of the
present year will be the largest ever harvest
ed in this country. Notwithstanding the
fact that in parts of the spring wheat section
a wet harvest is dreaded and the chinch
bugs have inflicted considerable damage,
there is no longer a doubt that taking all
things into consideration our wheat crop
will reach over half a billion bushels. This
is more than twenty million bushels in ex
cess of the phenomenal wheat crop of 1880,
and a hundred and twenty million bushels
in excess of lost year’s crop. Minnesota is
confidently put down for 40,000,000 bushels;
Indiana, as in 1880, will probably lead witli
a yield approaching 50,000,000 bushels; Illi
nois's harvest will figure up nearly if not
quite 40,000,000 bushels; California almost
the same as Illinois; Ohio, Michigan, Mis
souri and Kansas all will have over 30,000,-
000 bushels. Everywhere the yield has so
far been larger than was anticipated, and
the wheat lias threshed out heavier than
appearances indicated.
More than this: The wheat everywhere
appears to be of exceptional quality. We
never heard such glowing accounts of the
quality of winter wheat as have come to us
the past month. The mill wheels will be
busy now for months on the best crop ever
marketed, and we hope a prosperous year is
in store for ail.
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