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PERCENTAGE DEC REASE. Government Crop Reoort Shows De- j erease in Tobacco Yield? Other Crops. Washington, Aug. S.?With preliminary estimates of the bumper winter wheat crop and the size of the crop of rye, the department of agriculture's crop reporting board in its August report announced figures giving oicn tnp inrhVafpri yields, intemret ed from conditions figures of the probable total production of corn, spring weat, oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, to-bacco, flax, rice and hay. lAt the same time they announced the condition of these crops on August 1, (or at the time of harvest); stocks of oats and barley in farmer's hands on August 1 and the indicated acre yield of the crops. Details of reports made on each crop follow: Corn. Condition, 75.S per cent of a norma, compared with S6.9 per cent on July 1, 1913; SO.O per cent on August 1, 1912, and S2.2 per cent, the average for the past ten years on August 1. Area planted, 106,SS4,000 acres or 99.8 per cent of last year's acreage. Indicated yield, 25.0 bushels per acre, compared with 29.2 bushels last year and 26.5 bushels, the average for the past five years. Estimated production, 2,672,000,000 bushels, compared with 3,124,746,000 bushels last year: 2,531.488,000 bushels in 1911, 2,886,26o,000 bushels in 1910, and 2,552,000,000 bushels in 1909. Winter Wheat. It is preliminary estimated the yield ! per acre of winter Wheat is 16.5 i bushels, compared with 15.1 bushels last year and 15.2 bushels, the average for the past five years. On the area planted, 30,938,000 acres, it is estimated preliminary the total production of winter wheat is 511,000,000 "hiicholc pftmnaror? with *?QQ Q1Q fiflfi bushels last year, 430,656,000 bushels in 1911, 434,142,000 bushels in 1910 and 418,000,000 bushels in 1909. The quality of winter wheat is 93.7 per cent, compared with 90.7 last year, 92.0 per cent in 1911, and 92.2 per cent, the five year average. Spring lVheat. 'Condition 74.1 per cent, of a normal, compared with 73.8_per cent, last month, 90.4 per cent last year and 80.4 per cent, the average for the past ten years. Indicated yield per acre, 12.5 bushels, compared with 17.2 last year, 9.4 bushels in 1911, and 13.3 | nusneis, me average yieia per acre lor the past five years. On the planted area, 18,663,000 acres, it is esti mated the total production of spring wheat, interpreted from condition reports, will be 233,000,000 bushels, compared -with 33-0,348,000 bushels last year, 190,6S2,000 bushels in 1911, 200,979,000 bushels in 1910 and 265,000,000 in 1909. All Wheat. Indicated yield, 15.0 bushels per acre, compared with 15.9 bushels last year and 14.5 bushels the five years average. On the area planted, 49,cni AAA 1/inr.f r\y 1 AS 3 nor pprtt nf Inst WVi,VVU avi to Ul O.VV.U vvuv year's acreage, it is estimated tie total production will be 744,000,000 bushels compared with 730,267,000 bushels last year, 621,338,000 bushels in 1911, 635,121,000 bushels in 1910 and 683,000,000 bushels in 1909. Ooats. Condition, 73.7 per cent of a normal with 76.3 per cent last month, 90,3 per cent last year, and 81.5 per cent, the average condition for the past ten years. Indicated yield per acre, 26.S bushels, compared with 27 4 bushels last vear and 29.7 bush-1 els, the average for the past five years. On the planted area, 38,341,000 acres, it is estimated the total production of oats, interpreted from condition reports, will be 1,028,000,000 bushels, compared with 1,418,337,000 bushels last year. 922,29S,000 bushels in 1911, 1,186,341,000 bushels in 1910 and 1,007,129,000 bushels in 1909. The amount of oats remaining on farms August 1 is estimated at about 103,900,000 bushels, compared with 34,872,000 bushels last year. 67,793,000 bushels in 1911 and 34,872,000 bushels in 1910. Barley. Condition, 74.9 per cent of a normal, compared with 76.6 per cent lasc J-"t- ?A 1 ~ ~loot voq r CkvT'ii montn, o^.i pex vicxn. iaoi j \,i.u, uuu 83.0, the average for the past ten years. Indicated yield per acre, 23.1 bushels, compared with 29.7 bushels last year and 24.5 bushels, the average for the past five years. On the planted area 7,255,000 acres, it is estimated the total production of barley interpreted from condition reports, will be 16S.000.000 bushels, compared with 223,S24,000 bushels last year, 160,240,000 bushels in 1011. 173,*32.OOo bushels in 1910 and 173,321,000 in 15)00. Rye The area planted to rye is estimated at about 2,134,000 acres, compared with 2,097.00f. -icres last year, 2,127,000 acres in 1911, 2,1S5,000 acres in 1910 and 2,196,000 acres in 1909. It is preliminarily estimated the yield per acre is 16.3 bushels, compared with 16.S last year and 16.2 bushels, the average for the past five years. A preliminary estimate of the total yield places it at about 35,000,0000 bushels, compared with 35,644,000 bushels last year, 33,119,000 bushels in 1911, 34,S97,000 bushels in 1910 and 29,520,000 in 1909. The quality of rye is 94 per cent, compared with 91.5 last year and 92.0, the 10-year average. Buckwheat. Condition 85.5 per cent of a normal, compared with 90.4 per cent last year and 92.2 per cent, the average for the past ten years. The area planted to buckwheat this year is estimated at about 841,000 acres, compared with S35,000 acres last year, 833,000 acres in 1911, 860,000 acres in 1910 and 87S,000 acres in 1909. Indicator! viplr? ripr pptp 20.1 hlishftls. Com pared with 22.9 bushels last year and 21.0 bushels, the average for the past five years. On rhe area planted it is estimated the total production of buckwheat, interpreted from condition reports will be 17,000,000 bushels, compared with 19,249,000 bushels last year, 17,549,000 bushels in 1911, 17,598,000 bushels in 1910 and 14,849,000 bushels in 1909. White Potatoes. Condition 78.0 per cent of a normal compared 86.2 per cent last month, S7.S per cent last year and 82.9 per cent, the average for the past ten years. Indicated yield per acre 92.0 bushels compared with 113.4 bushels last year, 80.9 bushels in 1911 and 96.1 bushels, the average for the past five years. On the planted area 3,685,000 acres it is estimated the total production of white potatoes, interpreted from condition reports, will be 339,000,000 bushels, compared with 420. 47,000 bushels last year, 292,737,000 bushels in 1911, 349,032,000 bushels in 1910 and 389,195,000 bushels in 1909. Tobacco. Condition 78.3 per cent of a normal compared with 82.8 per cent last month, 82.8 per cent last year and 81.9 per cent, the average for the past ten years. Indicated yield per acre 783.9 j pounds, compared with 785.5 pounds last year, 893.7 pounds in 1911, and 822.3 pounds, the aiverage yield per acre for the past five yeirs. On the planted area, 1,144,500 acres, it is estimated the total production, inter- j preted 'from condition reports, will b? ; 896,000,000 pounds, compared wit: 962,855,000 pounds last year, 905,109,000 pounds in 1911, 1,103,415,000 pounds in 1910, and 1,055,765,000 pounds in 1909. Flax. Condition 77.4 per cent of a normal compared with 82.0 per cent last month, 87.5 per cent last year, and 82.9 per cent, 'the average for the past nine years. Indicated yield per acre 8.3 bushels, compared with 9.8 bushels last year, 7.0 bushels in 1911, and S.2 bushels, the average yield for the past five years. On the planted area, 2,- j 425,000 acres, it is estimated the total | prouucuoLi, liiierpreieu uuw uuuuiciwju j reports will be 20,000,000 bushels, | compared with 28,073,000 bushels last: year, 19,370,000 bushels in 1911, 12,- i 718,000 bushels in 1910 and 19,513,000 bushels in 190*. Elc?. Condition 88.7 per cent of a normal, compared with 88.4 per cent last month, 86.3 per cent last year and 88.8 per cent, the average for the past ten years. Indicated yield per acre 33.1 bushels, compared with 34.7 bushels last year and 33.7 bushels, the average yield for the past five years. On the planted area, 824,100 acres, it is estimated the total production, interpreted from condition reports, will be 27,000,000 bushels, compared with 25,054,000 bushels last year. 22,934,000 bushels in 1911 and 24,510,000 bushels in 1910. Hay. (All tame). Condition 81.S per cent of a normal, compared wun au.o per cent last month, 91.0 per cent last year and 84.3 per cent, the average for the past five years. Indicated yield per acre 1.33 tons, compared with 1.47 tons last year, 1.14 tons in 1911 and 1.3S tons, the average yield for the past five years. The area planted to hay this year is estimated to be 48,293,000 acres, compared with 49,530,000 acres last year, 43,017,000 acres in 1911, and 45,691,000 acres in 1910. On the planted area it is estimated the total production, interpreted from condition reports, will be 64,000,000 tons, compared with 72,691,000 tons last year, 55,000,000 tons in iyu ana 69,000,000 tons in 1910. Apples. (Condition 52.2 per cent of a normal compared with 59.4 per cent last month, 65.8 per cent last year, 53.9 per cent in 1911 and 54.5 per cent, the average for the past ten years. The condition of corn this year in North Carolina w'as given a.s 87 per cent. South Carolina as SG, Virginia as SS and Georgia as ST. Tillman on Fluaiiciiiir tlie Crops of South. Washington, August 4.?Senator Tillman of South Carolina submitted to the senate 1'or publication in the record today two letters he had received bearing 011 his effort to have liberal 1 financial arrangements made for accommodating the South in moving i crops. One letter was from a farmer in Newberry, S, C., who declared . the situation in the South so critical that it is not possible to sell farm j produce for cash Another was from j President Lewis W. Parker, president ; of the Parker Cotton mills company, | of Greenville, S. C., declaring that unI 1 ~ ~ nrAT'AmmAnf tn rD. iCSS lIIC 5<J > ci lime 111. vauiv, lief of the Southern and Western banks, there would be suicidal setbacks on the part of any buyers of agricultural commodities in purchasing. The Newspaper Job. Many people believe that a newspaper falls together without work or concerted action or plan. Rev. McI Leod, a Presbyterian minister at PasI adena, was of the opinion, and asked to be allowed to edit an edition of the Pasadena Star. The editor gladly ac j cepted the opportunity to go fishing, and the minister took up his duties in : the newspaper office. This is how he I felt when he found himself at the : end of the task, which, it must be | said, had been done quite creditably: "My time is almost up as I pen this last line; my hand is almost paralyzed; my brain is befuddled and I! am free to confess that I am right glad to vacate the holy spot. Such j uish and riot and disarray. Such aj ljumble to potpourri; it strikes me as | the effort to bring order out of chaos, 'and to do it lightning quick. I "I am reminded of the memorable words. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the waters Never shall I criticise newspaper men more. %I i shall pray ^or them They will have1 (my heart's forbearance henceforth and j forever.' They are the hardest work'ed, shortest lived, poorest paid brain j workers on this weary old world of : ours." Wept at 0'>eall's Grave. | St. Matthews cor., News and Courier. | John Belton O'Xeall, in the long ago, was a great temperance man, and he did not hestitate to make public addresses against the great evil. In referring to his position in a magnificent address by Dr. James ' H. Carlisle we heard him say that he had stood by the grave of John Belton O'Xeall in Newberry and wept for more O'Nealls on the bench in South Carolina. We are glad to see that this day has arrived. DEATHS FROM HEAT I> KANSAS. We'itb-r Forecast Promises Reiiof Through Thunder Showers. i Kansas City, August 9.?Relief from the temperaturs of 100 degrees and higher that have prevailed over Kansas and in most parts of Missouri and Oklahoma the last ten days was ! promised by the local weather fore| caster tonight. He said that thunder showers were probable and his predictions applied especially to Kansas which has been in the grip of a draught since early in June. Today's weather reports were another round of high temperatures. In Kansas the mercury again climbed above the century mark. Thermnmof&rc in cnrrifi narts of the State j registered as high as 108. Three deaths due to heat were reported in Kansas today. Few prostrations occurred because farmers and j other outside workers have suspended operations. Farmers are doing the work that is absolutely necessary, such as providing feed and water for i livestock and digging cisterns, and ' pipe lines, to conserve the water on hand. WOMAN SLAYS HEK HUSBAND. Mrs. Henry ( lay (Vruhb Says Kiling Was in Self-defense. Spencer, August 9.?Henry Clay i Grubb, a wealthy and prominent citiI zen of Rowan county, was shot to ! death early this morning in his home, I at Churchland, noar here, by his wife, Mrs. Emma Grubb. Grubb lived an hour after the sh Doting. Mrs. Grubb : is in a critical condition. According to Mrs. Grubb's statement the dead man came home about 1 o'clock this morning from Salisbury and was under the influence of intoxicants. She says her husband attacked her with a knife. She is severely cut about the breast, neck and shoulders, and one ear is almost ! severed from her head. In the en counter Mrs. Grubb says she seized a revolver from a table nearby and fired three shots, two of which pierced Mr. Grubb's breast, and the third entered the abdomen. Grubb lived less than au hour, dying shortly before 2 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Grubb have seven children, two of whom are grown. The children stated to the coroner that ; this was the culmination of a series of attacks on their mother by Grubb during the past few months. On one occasion they stated it was necessary I 4 i I i The Newl Capital Stoc I "T^he Bank T fj Mp, Jpii I ^UUKn I JL You d< j its safety, fo the combine the stronge: county. Pu it's safe. I LIFE is eas balance i bank. 4 0 o on I J to batter down a door to preveut in-|jured jury to Mrs. Gnibb at the hands of was 1 her husband. train Mrs. Grubb was exonerated by a it is coroner's jury which returned a ver- Th< diet that ^he deceased came to hisjeurre ' ' A J-'u~ T- ~ ^ ~ if V>io Tirifci who !fatnl Cieatn 3.1 Uie xiau.ua ui. >. acted in self-defense and who was A ? justified in the act." train Gruibb owned a considerable amount Johns of realty in Salisbury and Rowan of th< county. He was tried in superior "At court here in 1905 for the murder of south his brother-in-law. Obe Davis, and of Tr | was acquitted on a plea of justifiable of Ur homicide. He was shot and seriously Alabs injured several >ears ago by a negro to Bii farm hand employed on his planta- gine, tion near here. car ^ . ^ tion ] . - 1 T to ivnmi:rn ! thf F ITMiKAL SJftllAL n i/. | - Norris, S. C., August 9.?The special funer funeral train conveying the body of "^"c the late Senator Joseph F. Johnston firem; ifrom Washington to Birmingham, Ala., clerk | was wrecked near here today. The injur* icars containing the congressional com. The mittees and the family party did not clear: leave the tracks, but the locomotive, party two miil coa'ches and the dining car mingl j were derailed and went into a ditch. j The funeral train was running as I the second section of Southern Rail- Wa: j way train No. 37. While rounding a Railtt j sharp curve about two miles South of nounc ! Xorris at 2.17 o'clock this afternoon tJirmi i the rails spread, derailing the en- day n j gine, which ploughed into a ditch and the p turned over. An express car also was ?ville, | overturned into the ditch and three that ; express and mail cars and the dining c [car left the rails. The three parior J?: c;;r.s bearing the congressional com- occup linittees and members of Senator by ws (.Johnston's family remained on the track. The members of the party SAL ! were somewhat shaken up but other- By : wise were uninjured. aer P< I Engineer R H. Todder and Fireman Pert> S. Y. Powell were caught under the Count i overturned locomotive, but were ex- auctic | tricated and were found to be unin- cash, Mi ierry Savings 1 :k - - $5C hat Always Has The Mc rJsfjfCE mAdMk Copyright 1909. by C. t. Zimmerman Co ?N?. 12 ioney is safe in our \ * n't have to worry r behind our ban id resources of soi st financial meni t vour monev \ - J w? * y sailing if you have < in a savings account w savings deposits. . Postal Clerk P. L. Pittman the only person on the entire ** to be injured to any extent. thought he is not seriously hurt. nmnt -a-horo t-hp amident oc- been trai d is the same place wher<% a wreck took place five years ago. men *or 1 statement of the wreck of the usefulnej bearing the remains of Senator ston issued by the division office ^ e a Southern Railway says: young w : 2.19 p. in., today, two miles of Xorris, S. C., second section and free ain No. 37, carrying the remains , lited States Senator Johnston, of a 'e 111S ima, en route from Washington and Obse mingham, was derailed. The en - Wp crii two mail cars and tne aming *- - ?vero derailed. Two twelve-sec- ers wk0 Pullman drawing room cars and 'ullman private car, with the study. al escort, remained on the rails. vr Dun iVJ.. JxxiU > pasengers were injured. The an, the engineer and one mail July 22? and one dining car waiter were id." t i statement says the line will be For ^jn id shortiv after 6 o'clock and the J months will proceed through to Bir-fbe lam' gust. Apj other of Keaeh Birmingham. shington, August 9.?Southern ay headquarters tonight an:ed the funeral train should reach 1 1? OA rsy 7 rvVloclr Qnri- ? iigxiani u.v u.t>v i v ~ ? , lorning. Their advices stated larty would be taken to Gr.een3. 0., for dinner tonight, and ?~ mother sleeping car and a din- f?rmer rei ar was en route from Atlanta ^err-v Cou in the special train. The cars m-? Thurs ied by the party were detoured w*t: ^ne iv of Belton and Seneca. valid's chj er, 1-3 in E OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, terest in and under authority of an or- one wagoi -tt uu /-< n lf,nd 1-2 in a.SSeCl Dy ttUUUl CLUIC Kj. V^. ouuurn- ?-*? ? ? ? ? Judge of Probate for Newberry :y, S. C., I will sell at public Adrainis )n to the highest bidder, for tate of Ms the following personal property] July 25t L fonif /U1A11 ),000 mey" . p bank. about !_ k are me of in the vhere V i good ith our nnHHHnnHHM I ittletoa College ore than 30 yeaas we have ning girls and young wosuccessful teaceing and for 5S in life. rnise scholarships to the omen preparing to teach tuition to all students who :ruction in our Practice irvation School. arantee positions to teachcomplete our courses of For catalogue address J. DES, Littleton, N. C. <m J EACHER WANTED. 0 ion Academy. Term five Salary $40. Election will n the-first Saturday of Auplications may be filed with the undersigned. C. L. Wilson, A Prosperity, R~~F D. 3. C. Kfnard, " D. W. Buzahrdt, Newberry, R. F. D. A. Miller, deceased, at her sidence near Pomaria, New:nty, S. C., at 11 o'clock a. M ;day, August 14th, 1013, to sideboard, bedding, Vie inlir, 1-3 interest in one mcTterest in one rake, 1-3 inone bugsy, 1-3 interest in 9 l, 1-2 interest in one stove ^ iterest in dishes. Mary J. Miller,. I tratrix of the personal esirtha A. Miller, deceased. 1 :h, 1913. . * ^ -"r ' '