Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1874 — Crop Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Crop Statistics.

Indianapolis, Ind., May 80. Th* National Crop Reporter, published to day, has returns from 198 correspondents. covering 125 counties in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas, in relation to the area planted this season in cotton and corn in those States. Deductions are also published from the estimates of correspondents in relation to the total of spring and winter wheat now in the ground in the States of Hit, nois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin. The following is an abstract of the principal information furnished in the matter: Of cotton there is Shown to be a falling off from the area planted last year averaging in tbe four States first named 14 610 per cent. The decrease in area is 18 410 per cent, in Alabama, 9 410 per

cent, in Arkansas, SO 410 per cent in Mississippi and 5 2-10 per cent in Texas. The area devoted to corn in the same is placed at an increase over last year to the extent of 97 10 per cent. The increase is given as 10 410 per cent, in Alabama, 9 410 per cent, in Arkansas, 8 per cent, in Mississippi and 10 0-10 per cent, in Texas. The stand of both cotton and corn in the States named was, May 15, much bel6w a full stand, although the stand of corn was better than that of cotton. In Louisiana the majority of the reports received speak of a considerable portion of the land as overflowed. In all the four Btates the lateness of the season very much delayed the crops, and, although much of the planting which became necessary had been accomplished at the date of the reports, there will stili be a good deal of land lying idle. The estimates of correspondents in the eight Western States previously men tioned indieate an average increase in the total area of wheat at 8 2-10 per cent. The increase is 14 per cent, in Illinois; 13-10 percent in Indiana; 185 10 per cent, in Iowa; 24 per cent, in Kansas; 37-10 pet cent, in Minnesota; 17 410 per cent in Missouri; 5 percent, in Ohio, and 4410 per cent, in Wisconsin. The general condition of the growing erain at the date of the last report was all that, could be desired, although the crop in lowa has suffered somewhat from the depredations of grasshoppers.