The Portland daily press., 1872-10-25
WASHINGTON.
Estimates of the Wheat Crop.

WASHINGTON, Oct. GA synopsis of the
October crop report of j. r. Dodge, statistician
of the Department of Agriculture, indicates
the comparative production of the wheat crop
yield ofjwheat is quite as variable as was that
of its condition during the summer. Some
States have made superior crops and others al
most the poorest ever grown. The New Eng
land States have nearly sustained their usual
average. The Middle States and Maryland to-
gether have reduced their last years aggregate
from 81 100000 bushels to A,0O0,00O, or IS per
cent The Southern States, from Virginia to
Tennessee, which were known to have increas-
ed largely their wheat, would appear to have
enlarged their production 80 per cent, or from
100000 to 600 bushels. California has
increased her product at least Is per cent. Min
nesota and Iowa have made material increase,
while Missouri anil Kansas, the former grow
ing winter wheat mainly and the latter both
Writer aud 'pIins h.ve Ir~1 v.-.r--,s wi foil
ures in both varieties. Virginia and Kentucky
have had good crops, while Maryland and Ohio
return diminished yields; rs does the entire
district between the Ohio and the Lakes, the
Miami and the Hudson. Returns received
from counties representing large proportion
of the wheat of each State, indicate an increase
of 5 per cent. over the product of last year,
which was estimated at go, 600 bushels. 1t
is probable that the completed estimate will
not fall short of $40 900 bushels upon an area
of little less than 20, 100000 acres This will
make Weld of between II and Is bushels per
acre, which may be considered an average for
the United States. The increase in the States
west of the Mississippi appears to be about 49,
100000 bushels, or in comparison with last
years product of 50. 900 to 100000 bush
els The central lines of wheat production
running north and south, is this year further
west than ever before and is nearly Identical
with the goth meridian, which divides centrally
the States of Wisconsin and Illinois. Nearly
all the wheat produced between this line and
the Mississippi river is grown in the western
half of those two States. The quality of the
wheat is in most of the States better than last
year The per centage of the product IN com
parison with the last year in each of the States
is as follows: Maine 100, New Hampshire 9S,
Vermont 95, Massachusetts so, Connecticut 96,
New York 20, New jersey 80, Pennsylval ia 60,
Delaware 75 Maryland 66, Virginia 101, North
Carolina, 1876, South Carolina 113, Georgia $50,
Alabama 1873, Mississippi 1O1, Texas $50, Ar
kansas 1O2, Tennessee 200, West Virginia 104,
Kentucky It's, Ohio So, Michigan 88, Indiana
1O1, Illinois So, Wisconsin 121, minnesota 100
! Iowa 112, Missouri 60, Kansas 80, Nebraska lao
California IT'S, Oregon 108.
Treasury Balances.
| The balances in the treasury are: Currency
S4,216, 708 coin $77 ,2S3, 543 including S23777
800 for coin certificates; special deposit of le
| gal tenders for redemption of certificates FOL
deposit, $22,945,OO0.
Various Matters.
Secretary Boutwell, will leave Washington
Saturday morning to speak in Jersey City, Sat
urday; Utica, Monday; Poughkeepsie, Tues
day; New York, Cooper Institute, Wednesday
night, and Hartford, Thursday, devotng the
remainder of the campaign to Massachusetts.
Commander Lull left tonight for New Yorl
to complete the organizing of the Nicaragu;
surveying expedition. The expedition will sal
| about the LIST of December.
Comptroller of Currency Knox has returned
and resumed his official duties.
Twenty-one recruits have been ordered t.
battery E, 9Th Artillery at Fort Independence
Boston harbor.