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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. 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