Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1883 — JULY CROP BULLETIN. [ARTICLE]

JULY CROP BULLETIN.

Indications of a Crop of 800,000,000 Bushels of Winter and 125,000,- • 000 of Spring Wheat. large Increase in the Area Devoted to Corn—A Total of 68,000,000 ' Acres.

Th* July report of the National Department of Agriculture indicates very general improvement in the condition of cotton. Rains were general up to the 15th or 23th of June, and local shower* have been frequent tinoe. There has been an excess of moisture, Interfering with the cultivation and promoting the growth of grass. Clean fields are found only in favored distriota and on lands with prompt and pushing oulti▼atora Since June 90the growth has been rapid. In grassy districts the plan is are still small but healthy, and making gibab progress with recent cultivation. The only complaint ot drought comes from Central and .Sou hwestern Texas, from ths Colorado to the Gaudalupe. A lew counties in Routh Carolina and Georgia report a present need of t ain. There is promise of improvement during July. A gain of 10 pointe has been made in the Northern Zone, North Carolina and Tennessee, 7 in Georgia, 6 in South Carolina, 4 in Texas. 8 in Mississippi, 2 in Virginia and lin Florida Alabama and Louisiana stand as tn June. The July State avtanges are aa follows: Virginia, 83: North Carolina, 91; South Carolina 91: Georgia, 98; Florida, 95; Alabama 87; Mbsissippi. 89; Louisiana, 91; Texas, 98; Arkansas. 84; Tennessee, 88. Worms have wrought but little injury as yet. The caterpillar has appeared at a few pointe from South Carolina to Texas. In Butler, in Alabama, the second brood of worms appeared June 21 The- bdl-worm is at work in Denton county, Texas Picking will commence in Southwestern Texas about the 20th of July. * WHMT. There has been some improvement in winter wheat in Connecticut, New York, Virginia. South. Carol UaW, DMo, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and California which advance* tile general averThe indication* for July point to a winter spring wheat .a* « cobn. The area of the Sort* stop haa been increased about 2,500,000. a.re.->, ranking an aggregate of 68,000,0(0 acres. There has been some extension-as the area in nearly every State. The prouortion of increase is large in the Northwestknftln’the Southwest On the coast, from Virginia to MWtrtppi, the advance has been small In some places the reduction of price "from the enlarge ment of the supply last year had a discouraging effect. There has beentr-O much rain m the great Western maize ffistrtuta, and the failure pf stand* from planting poor seed, making the- stop late and the growth small, but the improvement has of late been rapid, raking all the States together, the average for coin is 88, against Bblast July, 90 in .Ibjl.and 1(X in 1880. The hveiages of the principal Stater are as follows: New York, 84; Pennsyl van’s, 89; Ohio, 83; Michigan, 78; Indiana, W; IllinOis, 82; lowm 80; Wourl 8£; KansM, 98; Nebraska, 87; Dakota 78. In the South the averages range from 90 in Tennessee to iu3 in Louisiana. other Mconuoto. The prospect for oats is nearly |ogood as in July of last year, the average being 99 against 103. The condition of barley is represented by 97. Last July it was 9». The average inNew York is 103;. Penn sylvan*, 91; Wisconsin. 102;. California, IXI There has been an increase of about 5 per cent in the area planted in Northern potatoea They are reported in high condition, averaging 101. The average of tobacco appears to have been diminished 7 per cent in condition. •