Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1889 — SEPTEMBER CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

SEPTEMBER CROP REPORT.

A Reduction in tile Percentage of General Average from Former Months. Washington dispatch: The September crop report makes the general averageof corn 91, a reduction of nearly 5 points; of winter wheat when harvested 89.4, a decrease from 92 on July J; of spring, wheat 88.9, an increase from 81.2 in August. This makes the general averageof all wheat 87.6. The general* condition of oats is 90, instead of 92.3 last mouth; of rye, 91.6; of barley, 88.9 instead of 90.6; of buckwheat, 92.1 instead of 95.2; of tobacco, 76.2, a reduction from 84.4 The percentage of stock hogs available for fattening is 101; condition, 93. The corn crop is a week late in a large proportion of its breadth. In the Ohio valley and lake region there has been a marked reduction of condition during the; last month from drought following the heavy rains of early summer. In Ohio and Indiana there was previous injury to bottom land crods by floods. In Michigan and Wisconsin the effects of drought and other influences are most injurious. There is complaint of drought west of the Mississippi, too late in the season for serious reduction. West of the Missouri conditions have been more favorable than in any other part of the country and the crop fa very -