Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1881 — National Crop Reports. [ARTICLE]

National Crop Reports.

The last report issued by the Department of Agriculture at Washington is summarized ae follows : Cotton.—The indicated yield of cotton pei acre is considerably less than last year. The reported decrease is 33 per cent, in Louisiana, 40 per cent, in Texas, and nearly 60 per cent, in Arkansas. North Carolina makes a return of 30 per cent, less yield than in 1880South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi re port better condition, and the prospects are for tho crop not much below those of last year in those States. Florida reports a decrease of 15 per cent., Alabama an increase of 13, Tennessee a decrease of 42. Virginia is not included as a cotton State, its product being insignificant. Wheat.—The average yield of wheat per acre in 1831 is 10)-£ bushels, against 13.1 in 1880, indicating a decrease of about 20 per cent, or 100.000,000 bushels, from last year’s product. In the interior and Western States there has been a great falling off, caused by the severe winter, the late, cold spring, drought, and. in several States, insect ravages ; but, while the quantity of the crop in reduced, the quality is generally reported very good. Corn. —The November returns of corn show an average yield of twenty and one-half bushels per acre, indicating a falling off of about 25 per cent, f rom the crop of 1880, caused chiefly Dy the general drought during the growing season, and by excessive rains since the crop was harvested. The quality of the crop is somewhat below the average.