Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — JUNE CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

JUNE CROP REPORT.

SPRING WHEAT DECREASE OF 2,51 1,000 ACRES. The Condition of Winter Wheat Is Slightly Lower than a Month Ago, While Spring la Higher than at Thia Time Laat Year. Preliminary reports of the spring wheat acreage indicate a reduction of about 2,511,000 acres, or 12.8 per cent. Of the nineteen States reporting spring wheat thirteen report a reduced acreage, Washington being the only State having 100,000 acres or upward thnt reports an increase. There is a reduction of 745,000 acres in Minnesota and of 905,000 acres in North Dakota, due lurgely to unfavorable weather during sowing time iu the Red River valley; a reduction of 400,000 acres in South Dakota, resulting in the main from an increasing tendency toward greater diversification of crops, and a reduction of 640,000 acres in Nebraska, consequent on the gradual yielding of spring wheat to winter wheat. The average condition of spring wheat on June 1 was. 05.4, as compared with 02 at the corresponding date last year, 87.3 on June 1, 1900, and a ten-year average of 92.6. The present average has been exceeded only three times in the last fifteen years. Of the States having 1,000,000 acres or upward in spring wheat South Dakota reports a condition of 100, North Dakota 90 and Minnesota and lowa 95. In Washington and Oregon, which together have over 1,100,000 acres, the condition averages are 97 and 93 respectively. The average condition of winter wheat on June 1 was W.l. as compared with 76.4 on May 1, 1902; 87.8 on June 1, 1901; 82.7 on June 1, 1900, and 80.3, the mean of the June averages of the last ten years. During May there was a gain of throe points in Michigan, Illinois and Kansas, of one point in Indiana, two points in Nebraska und seven points in Oklahoma. On the other hand, there was a loss of two points in California and three points in Pennsylvania, with no measurable change in Ohio.

The total reported acreage in oats is about four-tenths in excess of the acreage harvested last year. Twenty-five States and territories report some enlargement of acreage and twenty-four some reductions. Of the nine States having 1,(X>0.000 acres or upward in oats New York. Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota report an increased acreage, no case exceeding 4 per cent, and Pennsylvania, Indiana, lowa and Nebraska a decrease, which only in the last-mention-ed State exceeds 1 per cent. The average condition of oats is 90.6, against 85.3 on June 1, 1901, 91.7 at the corresponding date iu UXXJ and a ten-year average of 90. Minnesota and Indiana report conditions corresponding exactly with their ten-year averages, Michigan reports two, lowa three. Illinois five and Wisconsin six {mints above und Nebraska one point. New York two, Ohio five and Pennsylvania thirteen points below. The average condition of apples is unfavorable. Of the fourteen large producing States but two report a condition above the ten-year average, as follows: North Carolina, 68, a gain of one point, and Michigan 87. n gain of six points. In Maine the condition is 93. New York reports a condition five points below the ten year average, Illinois and lowa nine points, Ohio twelve, Pennsylvania und Kansas sixteen, Kentucky, Yitginia and Tennessee seventeen, Missouri eighteen and Indiana nineteen points. The prospects of the peach crop are quite fuvorabie. Condition for the Week. The weather bureau’s weekly summary of crop conditions says: “The States of the lower Missouri vdlley have again suffered from excessive rains, which have also Interrupted farm work in the northern portions of Illinois and Indiana and the southern portions of Wisconsin and Michigan, Drouth is becoming serious in the Carolinas Und iu the central and west gulf districts. “With ample moisture and favorable temperatures corn has made good growth throughout the central valleys, but is much in need of cultivation in the States of the lower Missouri valley and Wisconsin. “With warm, showery weather of the last week bus been favorable to the development of rust in winter wheat In portions of Missouri ami Indiana ami has caused lodging to some extent in Illinois and Missouri. Harvesting has begun in the southern portions of Missouri and Kansas. On the Pacific const the wheat outlook continues promising, although grasshoppers are causing some damage.”