Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — AGRICULTURAL NEWS NUGGETS. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL NEWS NUGGETS.

Recent heavy rains have greatly damaged crops in the vicinity of Vicksburg. The sales of leaf tobacco at Danville, Va., from October 7 to July 31 were 29,858,642 pounds. • A New Orleans Picayune special from Greenville, Miss., estimates the cotton crop to have been already damaged at least 35 per cent, by the prevailing rain in the Delta. " ' A meeting of winter wheat millers was held at St, Louts last week with a view of forming a closer alliance between the millers handling winter wheat and to prevent a ruinous competition. - ’ A Milwaukee dispatch last week said that specials from the cranberry districts report that recent frosts have damaged crops in the dry and unimproved marshes fully twenty-five per cent. Buckwheat and corn also suffered in some sections. A bale of cotton has been covered with pine straw bagging manufactured by a manufacturing company of Wilmington, N. C. It passed all tests satisfactory, including that of the compress, and it is believed will answer all the purposes of jute bagging at much lower price. A dispatch from London, England, estimates that the Old World needs from 70,000,C00 to 80,000,000 more bushels of wheat than the harvest for the world for the year will produce. In other words the countries that buy wheat must purchase 370,000,000 bushels, while the surplus of countries having wheat for sale is estimated at 295,000,000 bushels. A cablegram from Vienna says that the official report of the world’s harvest shows that the wheat crop of Italy, France, Great Britain and Russia Podolia is from 20 to 55 per cent, below the average and in Austria, Hungary, South eastern Europe and Egypt from 7 to 30 per cent above the average. The barley crop in Great Britain, Austria, and Hungary, France and Egypt is from 10 to 25 per cent above the average. In Germany there is an average crop, and in Moravia the crop is 25 per cent above the average.