The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1868-11-05
October Report on the Crops.
Iii1'il~W ~WSAsIlIyoToy Oct. 3D.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.
The Department Of Agriculture
has issued a report on the condition
of the crops in October. Ii says the
| full promise of the early summer hgs
not be6n realized IL tho wheat hsrL
vest The increase Of area over that
Of last year, in its effect on aggre.
gate production, is nearly neutral
lied by small diminution in someof
the principal wheat growing States
10 the yield per acre, 50 that the 10
crease in total Quantity as shown by
October returns is scarcely more
than 3 per cent. and that is obtained
mainly from the Pacific Coast. Av.
eragcs for October. appear to show a
decrease IN production in Maine,
New Hampshire. Massachusetts. Con.
nec,icut, New Jersey, North Carroll
na, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bauia and Texas, the latter having
only halfa crop. The other States
indicate an increase in most Of those
east Of the Mississippi very slight;
in Minnesota l3 per cent, Iowa s
per cent? Missouri 8 por cont, Ne
braska l3 per cent, Kansas l3 per
cent, and California % per cent.
Many States ip. .difsreut parts of the
country, especially Mary land aud
Wisconsin, report di, proportion
mcnt in the yield in grim in thresh-
ing. tr'a tita
The oat crop is slight in the East.
ern, Middle and Southern Atlantic
States. Not a fnll average in Mich
igan, Wisconsin aud Iowa, In other
States, the product is above the av.
erage, the largest increase being 10
per cent. IN Nebraska. 10 Wiscon-
Sin the deficiency is 9 per cent.
Considerable injury by frost to
the corn crop is reported in Northern
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and more
uorthern- attitudes Iu- some psrts
Of Iowa 40 estimate Of two 6fths of
soft corn is made From Southern
Indiana, Southern Ohio, West Vir
gipia aud Pennsylvania come com
plants ofimmaturity, in consequence
of wet weather, aud accounts Of
injury from drouth are received. No
general OF very severe drouths have
been reported The total product
will not be what was hoped in the
carly part Of the season or what is
needed for the country with its rap
lilly increasing population, but some.
what larger in quantity than last
year, which was season peculiarly
adverse to corn production.
Potatoes are reported TO be a full
average crop, with a deficiency Of
ten per cent. ia New York and
Pennsylvania from thrco to seven
per cent. in the Southern Atlantic
States aud Tennessee twenty per
cent. in Illinois; ten per cent. in
Iowa eleven per cout in Indiana
fifteen per cent, in Ohio sixteen per
cent. in Michigan aud u greater or
less reduction in other Western
States.
The amount of old wheat on hand
is somewhat less than usual through
out the country, with the exception
of the cotton States, which have
higher average than last year This
remark win not apply to Texas,
where the graparics arc uurortu-
nately empty, The quantity left over
in Wisconsin is relatively som9what
lower than in the ncighboring
States.
The stock ofbrcves in preparation
for markets is largcr than last year
west Hnd south of New Jersey. .ex-
copt in Indiana and Illinois, which
States constitute an important beef
producing section The deficiency
in Illinois is placed at two per cent,
aud in Indiana at Eve per ceni. The
condition Of the fattening cattle is
almost universally of a superior c har.
acter, giving promise of bettor aud
larger meat supplies than usual.