Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1882 — THE SPRING GRAIN. [ARTICLE]

THE SPRING GRAIN.

JHM Repart of Use National Depart* ■eat of Agriculture. The June crop report of the Department of Agriculture at Washington represents an entire area of 1,561 of the principal counties of the United States, and includes aU but a small fraction of the breadth of prominent crops. The area in cotton is 27.1 per cent, less than tn 1881. A large number of returns say that with the recent fine weather cotton is improving and Jives some assurance of a better report for uly. The largest deficiency i* in States horded ng on the Mississippi river, where plantinc in overflowed districts was not entirely finished the Ist of June. The area sown in spring wheat has decreased apparently about 12 per oeirt. The comparative average of the Northwest is as follow*: Wisconsin, 86 ; Minnesota, 88 ; lowa, 82; Nebraska, 90 ; Dakota, 102. The condition of winter wheat to still very high, averaging 100. Last year in June it waa 76. Taking the winter and spring areas together, and assuming a continuance •of the present conditions, a yield exceeding thirteen bushels per acre would result in an aggrmte exceeded only by the product of 18w). The Southern harvest is safe. Northern winter wheat ha* few risk* to encounter, but spring to still an uncertain quantity. The corn acreage cannot be given until July. A large increase in area to reported in the South and in the Northwest, but in half the States planting was not finished on the Ist of June, and in large districts the plant had made no show above ground. In parts of the South early-planted is In tassels. Planting to everywhere late, the plant to small, and not of average vigor or color in consequence of cold and wet weather. The increase in the area of oats to nearly universal, and amounts to an average of 7 per cent The average of condition to 10L The harvest promises to be very large. There is an increase of 1 per cent in the arsa of barley. Average condition, 90. • The condition of clover and spring pasture has improved, and ranges very high tn the South »ud fair to good in other sections.