Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — POOR WHEAT IN THREE STATES. [ARTICLE]

POOR WHEAT IN THREE STATES.

Half a Crop Expected in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.

The April report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture shows the average condition of winter wheat on April 1 to have been 82.1, against 77.9 on April 1, 1899, 86.7 on April 1, 184)8. and a teu-year average of 82.8. While the ravages of the Ilessimn fly in Ohio. Michigan and Indiana wifi probably result in not one of these three States producing more than half a crop, an exceptionally high condition is reported from the winter wheat Htatcs west of the Mississippi river and fr6m the Pacific coast. The principal averages are as follows: Pennsylvania ... 72 Kansas 99 Ohio 47 Texas ........101 Michigan 57 Oklahoma 99 Indiana 51 Washington ...196 Illinois 88 Oregon * 100 Missouri 91 California 90