Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — CROP PROSPECTS. [ARTICLE]

CROP PROSPECTS.

Report of the National Agricultural Bureau—Favorable Outlook for the Michigan Wheat Yield. ~ .r* 1 ■ —. —- —f ■* ’’ i A Larger Corn Acreage in Illinois Than Last Year, and the Condition Good. The National Kepert, [Washington telegram.] The July report of the Agricultural Department shows that cotton has made material improvement during June. There, : ire few imperfect stands reported. The j temperature and rainfall have favored j growth, and fruiting has commenced in ! the lower Gulf States. Local droughts are very rare, and moisture is generally sufficient from Virginia to Texas. It is somewhat in excess in the lowlands, interfering with cultivation and stimulating the growth of grass. The geneial average condition has advanced from 92 per cent, in June to US per cent It has not been exceeded in July since 1880. This will insure, barring i drawbacks so likely to come in the later summer, a large crop. Averages of condition by States are as follows: Virginia 98, North Carolina 93, South Carolina 96, Georgia 97, Florida 95, Alabama 92, Mississippi 99, Louisiana 100, Texas 92, Arkansas 96, Tennessee 97. The States east of the Mississippi stand as in June, except Georgia and Florida, which have advanced two points. All the others give higher averages. The caterpillar is re-, ported" in Baker, Brooks, and Dougherty Counties, Georgia; in Jackson and Madison Counties, Florida; in Montgomery and Elmore Counties, Alabama; in Cameron County, Louisiana; and in Van Zaudt County, Texas. The new wet worm has been very abundant in Texas. The boil worm moth has been observed in Titus County, Texas. The month has been favorable to the development of winter wheat. A slight improvement is indicated, which advances the general average between two and three points, or from 62 to nearly 65.’ Avery slight decline is reported in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and in some of the Southern States. • In Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri there has been improvement, as well as in California and Oregon. The winter wheat region, which does not include the Territories, now promises about 215,000,000 bushels. The condition of spring wheat continues higher, though the average has been reduced slightly, the acreage being nearly 96, The indicat’ons now point to a crop of about 48,000,000 bushels for Wisconsip, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota, and nil other Territories and Northern New England. This makes an aggregate of 363,000,000 bushels. The immense corn area of last year has apparently been increased abaut 6 per cent., or at least 4,000,000 acres, making ah aggregate of 74,000,000 acres. The largest increase is in the Missouri Valley. The condition of corn is higher 1 than in any year since 1880 except the last. It averages 94 against 93 in 1884. It is highest in the South, and higher on the Atlantic coast than in the West. The Kansas average is 83, that of Michigan and Missouri 87, Wisconsin 88, Illinois 90, lowa' 92, Minnesota 93. Ohio and Nebraska 97. The average of winter ivo has increased from 73 to 87 since the first of June. The general average of oats is 97 in place of 93, last' month. Oats have shared with all the cereals in the improvement of the month. The only States below 90 are New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia-, Mississippi, and California. The condition of barley' averages 92, and of tobacco 96. Corn in Illinois. [Compiled from the July State Agricultural Report.] The area of corn is much larger than last season, especially in the central and southern counties, and the growing crop has generally been w'ell cultivated. The most unfavorable condition likely to affect corn in Illinois would be an early and severe frost before the late planting had manured. The correspondents of the department are, as a rule, farmers of extended experience and deeply interested in the accuracy of the returns. The prospects are encouraging for nearly as large an average yield of corn per acre in all portions of the State as at the corresponding date last season. The present area of corn is larger than last season in all the central and southern counties, and with few exceptions in all the northern counties. There has been considerable improvement in the condition of corn during the last month, and ' with a favorable fall season for maturing there Will be about an average yield of corn per acre throughout the State. Michigan Crop?. The Michigan crop report for July estimates the total yield cf wheat in the State this year at 25,373,682 bushels, or 3561407 bushels more than the yield in 1884. The yield, as estimated for the southern four tiers of counties, is 17.27 bushels per acre, and in the northern counties 16.39 bushels. The number of acres reported in wheat this year is 1,480.055. The total number of bushels marketed in eleven months ended July lis 8,468,513. In the southern four tiers of counties 8 per cent, and in the northern counties 5 per cent.—in all 1,900,000 bushels—of the 1884 wheat crop still remains in farmers’ hands. The condition of other crops, expressed in per cent, of condition as compared with one year ago is a 3 follows: Com, 87: o»ts, 96; barley, 93; clover meadows, 92; timothy meadows, 92; clover sowed this year,-95. The condition of corn compared with average years is 85. Thirteen per cent, of the corn planted failed to grow. Apples promise 52 per cent, of an average crop in the southern counties and 62 in the northern. A Dangerous Disease. [Palmyra (Wis.) dispatch.] State Veterinary Surgeon Atkinson has completed his examination of the diseased Herds of cattle owned by Dan Seamen, of this town. He prenounced them suffering from a disease called anthrax, considered contagious. He advised immediate change of pasture from low to high land, and strict quarantine. Three cows from this herd have died from the disease within a few days. While skinning one of these cows a small sore on Mr. Seamen's hand came in contact with the poisoned matter. The hand became inflamed and swollen immediately to such an extent as to require prompt medical attendance. The Hessian Fly. [Rochester (15. Y.) special.! The Hessian fly has made great devastation in the wheat-fields of various towns in Wayne County. In Arcadia the loss is estimated at $20,000. In the immediate vicinity of Lyons the loss is estimated by careful observers at $70,000. In some places the farmers are burning the wheatfields in order to exterminate the insects as far as possible. 0 --L- ■■■ ■ . Mr. Cleveland’s two carriages, a victoria and a landau, cost $1,862. A calf was born at Macon, Mo., that weighed 120 pounds at birth.