People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — WINTER WHEAT. [ARTICLE]

WINTER WHEAT.

Its Condition as Reported to the Department of Agriculture. Washington, April 12.—The condition of winter wheat on April 1 as reported by the statistician of the department of agriculture averages 86.7 per cent, for the entire country. Last year the average was 77.4. In 1892 it ■ was 81.2 and 96.9 for the year 1891. The | corresponding average for rye is 94.4 i per cent. The averages of wheat for the principal states are as follows: I Kentucky, 83; Ohio, 90; Michigan, 83; ; Indiana, 90; Illinois, 87; Missouri, 88; ! Kansas, 72; Nebraska, 85; lowa, 87. Very little damage is reported from the Hessien fly and that only in sec- ■ tions of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. The weather from seeding time until the present cold wave swept over the country has been very favorable to the growth of the plant. The injury to the crop is undoubtedly considerable. In the eastern and northern states the damage was comparatively light. In the south Atlantic and southern states the injury is marked and decided, with perhaps the exception of Texas, while in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky the injury from frost is considerable. In .Kansas, Nebraska and California the impaired condition of the crop has not resulted so much from the frost as from cold, dry weather.