Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — CONDITION OF THE CROPS. [ARTICLE]

CONDITION OF THE CROPS.

The September Report of the National Agricultural Bureau a Favorable One. Quality and Quantity Above the AverageGood Prospects of Export Demand. Following is the national crop report for September, as telegraphed trom Washington: The condition of cotton on the Ist es September was lower than on August Ist, by reason of drought, which has been severest in Texas, yet felt in every State east and north to North Carolina. State averages are: Virginia, 89; North Carolina, 90; South Carolina, 87; Georgia, 86; Florida, 88; Alabama, 84; Mississippi, 83; Louisiana, 84; Texas, 72; Arkansas, 83; Tennesse, 90. Tne production of winter wheat is above the average, and generally of good quality except where injured by sproutingin shock. The rate of yield is not from an average thirteen bushels per acre. The reports of the harvest of spring wheat are not yet complete, and the product can not be precisely indicated. It is probable, from the reported condition of the crop already harvested and thrashed, that the aggregate will vary little from 510, 000,000 bushels. Reports of much higher figures are sensational and misleading and utterly unworthy of credence. The general average condition when harvested is 98, against 83 last year. The condition is almost identical with that reported ir\ September, 1879 (the census crop), which yielded thirteen bushels per acre. The wheat States in highest condition are California. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Oregon. These, with some of minor production, show figures higher than toe general average, lowa, Nebraska, and Kansas standing 98, Ohio and Michigan at 90, Indiana at 94, and Illinois atßo. The Eastern and Southern States range from 81 in Mississippi to 103 in Maine. The corn crop is in better condition than in any September since 1880. The general average is 91. It was 84 last September, 83 in 1832, and 60 in 1881. It promises to produce an average yield of 26 bushels for the entire breadth, or not less than 1,800,000,000 bushels. It will make the largest aggregate quantity ever reported in the history of the crop. The oats crop averages a yield per acre about the same as corn, and makes an aggregate exceeding 500,000,000 bushels. Its condition when harvested was 95, which is lower than for the two previous years, but higher than for prior years since 1878. Bar’.ey averages 97, against 100 last ye r, and 95 in 1882. It will average about twenty-two bushels per acre. The general average for rye is 96, and for buckwheat 93, which indicates a medium crop, about twelve bushels per acre. The condition of potatoes averages 91, against 95 last year. It will be an abundant crop, but not so large as last. The condition of tobacco is higher than in September of any year since 1877. It averages 94, instead of SO last September. The London agent' ot the department cables, as the result of statistical investigations, that the year will not be one of superabundance; that European wheat, though above the average in product, will be less than the aggregate of 1882. European Importing countries need 260,000,000 bushels above their production. European countries exporting can supply 80,000,000, leaving 180,000,000 bushels to be obtained from other continents. Stocks are not excessive. There is increased consumption of wheat, and it is the general opinion that lowest prices have been reached. Potatoes and rye are less abundant than last year.