Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-25
WASHINGTON.
Bureau Estimate Of the Wheat Crop.
sLx Fer Cent BELOW the Average.

Six Per Cent Below the Average.
WASHINGTON, June 24.-The June re-
port of the Statistician of the Department
Of Agriculture, now in press, is exhaustive
in its treatment Of wheat statistics. 1t is
based on reports from counties, of which
l99 indicate an average condition; 270
counties higher than an average, and 434
low condition, ranging from 100, the stand
ard of medium prospect, down to 10, and
in few cases to entire failure.
The State averages are calculated not
simply from the number fSscounties report
ed, but from comparative production Of
the several counties. These 9U3 reports
include very large proportion ofthe wheat
area of the country. The summary re-
turns of area shows a reduction OF per
cent from that of 1871.
The acreage of spring wheat in States
which grow that variety mainly is repre-
sented as follows: Maine 10S, New Hamp-
shire 100, Vermont 102, Massachusetts 70,
Wisconsin 1913, Minnesota 10l, Iowa lO6,
Nebraska lI3, Oregon 107, California,
where the distinction of spring and winter
is scarcely known, reported spring l2O,
winter 1870, Illinois, where winter wheat
constitutes two-thirds of the crop, gives 1O1
for winter and Is for spring. Kansas, where
spring wheat predOminates, returns lao for
spring and 62 for winter.
The States growing winter wheat are
Connecticut 95, New York 9S, New Jersey
98, Pennsylvania 80, Delaware SO, Mary
land 100, Virginia 98, North Carolina lOl,
South Carolina SO, Georgia 50, Alabama
l05, Mississippi 90, Texas 115, Arkansas so,
Tennessee lO3, West Virginia 100, Ken
tucky 80, Ohio IS, Michigan 81, Indiana 94,
Illinois l01, Missouri 81.
The condition of the predominant variety
in each State is thus stated Maine l0l,
New Hampshire 80, Vermont los, Massa-
chusetts SO, Connecticut So, New York 6S,
New Jersey 20, Pennsylvania 20, Delaware
10, Maryland A, Virginia 50, North Caro-
lima 1Ol, South Carolina 81, Georgia 100,
Alabama 115, Mississippi 1O4, Texas III,
Kansas 110, Tennessee l07, West Virginia
IS, Kentucky 10S, Ohio 78, Michigan 20,
Indiana IS, Illinois so, spring lO3; Wis
consin 1O4, Minnesota 106,I owa Ill, Mis-
souri, winter 5S, Kansas los, winter 40,
California SO, Oregon 95.
The general average OF the condition for
the entire crop is "a. The department es-
innate for the crop of 1871 was two hun
dred and thirty million bushels, az eleven
and half bushels per acre, considering
twelve bushels an average yield. The area
and condition of the present crop on the
first week in June pointed to product as
probable of two hundred and twenty mil
lion bushels in 1872.
The crop of 1869, which was about 10 per
cent above an average and the largest re-
corded in ten years, was 2oI,OOO,OOU
bushels as returned by the census.
An Insult to the American Flag.
NEW YORK, June PA Washington
| special says the State Department has re-
ceiyed dispatches from George Holt, our
Counsul at Gaspa Basin, Canada, to the
effect that the Captain of the Dominion
cutter, Stella Marie, captured the American
schooner, James Bliss, fer alleged violation
of the Dominion laws, and brought her
into port with the DOminion's flag flying
at her peak over the American flag, which
was Union down. Our Counsel protested
against the insult, but it was repeated and
! it is understood the action was sanctioned
by the highest Dominion authorities.