Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1903 — JULY CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

JULY CROP REPORT.

AVERAGES COMPILED BY GOVERNMENT STATISTICIANS. ” Figures Show a Decrease in Condition -Wheat ffemainffig Tn ' ’the Hande of Farmers Is Estimated to Be 43,500,009 Bushels. Preliminary Y<?t\irns to the chief of the bureau of statistics of the Department of Agriculture show the acreage of corn planted to be about 80,800,000 ncres, a decrease of nligut 4,200,000 acres, or 4.5 per cent from the area planted last year, as revised in December. The average condition of the growing crop on July 1 was 79.4, as compared with 87.5 ou July 1, 1902, 81.3 at the corresponding date lii 1001 and a tenyear average of 80.8. The following table shows for each of the twenty principal corn States the acreage compared with that or last year on a percentage basis and the condition on July 1 in each of the last three years with the ten-year July., average:

Condition July 1. Acreage compared 10 yr. with last year. 1903. 1902. 1901. av. Illinois 97 78 91 87 00 lowa 88 01 90 87 93 Nebraska ... 90 73 90 88 92 Kansas GO 73 99 74 03 Missouri .... 88 74 102 70 91 Texas 105 88 41 04 81 Indiana 93 70 90 84 93 Georgia 101 85 88 82 80 Tennessee .. 90 8(5 95 88 89 Kentucky .;. 93 82 91 88 90 Ohio 93 75 87 78 89 Alabama ....102 92 77 87 87 N. Carolina.. 97 82 98 78 92 Arkansas ... 97 77 87 71 89 Mississippi ~lot 91 09 88 85 Virginia .... 97 84 93 92 91 S. Carolina.. 99 79 93 67 87 S. Dakota .. 97 87 75 89 89 Oklahoma .. 95 85 99 82 1)2 Pennsylvania 98 84 82 87 86 United States 95.5 79.4 87.5 81.3 89.8 Condition of Winter Wheat.

The average condition of winter wheat on July 1 was 78.8, as compared wiOh 82.2 last month. 77 on July 1, 1902, 88.3 on July 1, 1901, and a ten-year average of 78.2. The following table shows for each of the twelve principal winter wheat States the condition on July 1 in each of the first three years and that on Juue 1. 1!|03, with the ten-year July averages:

This Last Julyl, Julyl, Ten- — month, uioutb. 1902. 1901, year nv. Kansas 86 83 56 91 70 Missouri 60 70 99 93 78 California ....73 76 84 96 78 Indiuna 09 81 82 80 70 Nebraska ....90 91 ,98 94 74 Ohio 82 87 78 88 74 Illinois 67 73 80 88 68 Pennsylvania 90 89 78 03 86 Oklahoma ...00 03 80 89 83 Texas 90 87 52 52 78 Tennessee ....08 76 60 90 84 Michigan ....87 SB 03 50 72 United States.7B.B , 82.2 77.0 88.3 78.2 The average condition of spring wheat on July 1 was 82.5. as compared with 95.9 last month, 92.4 on July 1, 1902, 95. G on July I. 1901, and a ten-year average of 85.9.The following table shows for each of tho five principal spring wheat States the condition on July 1 iu each of the last three years and that on June 1, 1903, with tlie’Non year July averages: Tills Last Julyl, Julyl, Tenmonth. month. 1002. 1901. year av. Minnesota ...84 95 90 90‘ 87 N. Dak0ta....73 09 06 100 85 S. Dak0ta....86 100 01 IOQ 84 lowa 87 01 02 -92 93 Washington . .80 89 93 93 94 United States.B2.s 05.0 92.4 95.6 85.9

Combined Wheat Averages, The average condition on July 1 of spring and winter wheat combined was 80, as compared with 82.9 on July 1, 1902, and 91.1 on July'l, 1901.- The amount of wheat remaining in the hands of farmers on July l is estimated at about 42.500.000 bushels, equivalent to about (5.3 per cent of the crop of last year. -

The average condition of the oat crop on J«iy 1 was 84.3, compared with 85.5 one month ago, 92.1 ou July 1, 1902. 83.7 oil July 1, IDOL nnd a ten-year average of 87.8. The following table shows for each of the ten principal oat States tlie condition op July 1 in each of the last three years, and that on June 1, 1903, and tho ten-year July average:

This Last Julyl, Julyl, Tenmonth. month. 1902. 1901. year av. Illinois 76 70 00 78 88 lowa 88 01 07 02 93 Wisconsin ...90 08 100 91 92 Minnesota ...87 05 05 06 90 Nebraska ... .90 90 93 84 80 Indiana 73 79 05 83 93 New Y0rk....87 69 98 92 90 refffisyTvahlu 01 77 90 80 88 Ohio .... r.... 84 74 88 93 90 Michigan - .....87 85 99 90 90 United States.B4.3 85.5 92.1 83.7 87.8 The average condition of barley is 8(1.8, against 01.5 one month ago, 93.7 on July 1, .1902, 91.3 at the corresponding date in 1901 and a ten-year average of 87.3.

Condition of Other Crops, The average condition of winter rye is 00.2, ns compared with 91.2 on July 1, 1902, 03. G at the corresponding date in 1001 and a ten-year average of 80. The average condition of spring rye is 88.3, ns compared with 80.3 ou July 1, 1902, twL3 at the corresponding date in 1901 and a ten-year average of 87.5. The acreage of llax is about 500,000 ncres, or 13.5 per cept less than that of Inst year, nnd the condition is 8(5.2. The acreage of tobacco is about 7,000 acres, or 0.7 per cent greater than that of last year, and tho condition is 85.1. Tho acreage of potutoea, excluding sweet potatoes, is alwnt 49,0 X) acres, or 1.0 per cent less than that of last year. Tl*c average condition of potatoes on July t was 88.1, as compared with 92.9 on July 1. 1002. 87.4 at the corresponding date in 1901 and a ten-year average oT 92.0. The report al o includes fruit-1 and various minor crops, which will he published in detail in the Crop Reporter. Executors of the estate of C. L. Magee of Pittsburg have settled the fight with Dr. Walter C. Browning of Pliiladolphin over foes for services rendered the sick politician by paying Attorney William B. Rodgers, counsel for the doctor, a warrant for $34,000. the amount of the recent award of the Allegheny County Orphans’ Court judges. The amount settled the origiual claim of Dr. Brow-ning that the estate of Mr. Magee owed him SIOO,OOO Tor medical trerricea he had rendered. The fight had been waged about two years.