Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — SPRUNG PLOWING VERY LATE. [ARTICLE]

SPRUNG PLOWING VERY LATE.

Result of Returns Furn'ohed to the Department of Aacriculture. The May returns to the statistician of the Department of Agriculture show the acreage in winter wheat in cultivation on May 1 to have been about 25,900,000 acres. This is about 4,000,000 acres less than the area estimated to have been sown last fall, but it still slightly exceeds the area of winter wheat harvested last year. The reduction in acreage in the principal States, as compared with the area seeded last fall, is as follows: Kansas, 868,000; Illinois, 761,000; Indiana, 894,000; Missouri, 345,000; Texas, 227,000; Ohio, 149,OOO; Nebraska, 144,000; Michigan, 128,000; Wisconsin, 120,000; Tennessee, 105,000. The condition in the principal States, after reducing the acreage as indicated, is as follows: Pennsylvania, 86; Maryland, 83; Virginia, 78; Texas, 67; Tennessee, 78; Kentucky, 76; Ohio, 82; Michigan, 60; Indiana, 68; Illinois, 54; Missouri, 65; Kansas, 64; California, 96; Oklahoma, 86. Spring plowing is unusually late in almost every part of the country. The work already done is estimated at 57 J per cent of the total contemplated. . The proportion usually done by May 1 is about 75 per cent of the whole.