National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1872-08-02
NUMBER 10.
The Coming CrOps.

Ihe July report OF agriculture IL nov
ready. The reports of corn reprsseD
$50 counties, including an area usual,
producing TOO. 600, 900 bushels annually
and indicating mn increase oi 3 per cent
This is equiv ilent to more than three
fourths of !, 900, 900 acres, and the tota
areI in this great crop Of the country
which n"arly equals in extent the aggre
gate of all other titled crops together, i,
probably about 2j0O0, 900 acres.
The States in which an increase OF
acreage is reported are ~ follows New
Jersey. per cent f; Pennsylvania, 2
South Carolina, | Georgia, | Alabama
3; Mississippi, l Louisiana, 8; Texas,
s; Arkansas, 4; West Virginia, 2; Ken-
lucky, 2; Ohio, 2; Michigan. 10; Il
diana, | /; Illinois, = Iowa, | Missouri,
4; Kansas, 2s; Nebraska, 20; Califor-
MIA, |.
A diminution appears in Main of 4
per cent, Vermont, 2; Massachusetts,,
4; Rhode Islaud, 8 Connecticut, @
New York, l Wisconsin, Minnesota,
3. The area in the remaining States is
reported the same as last year, OF the
reports of $50 counties, 263 place the
condition above 100; Alb below 100.
Illinois is represented by 80 counties, of
which 22 stand above the average and
% below. OF Ga counties in Missouri,
the condition of corn is above the average
in lG and below in 25. OF 80 counties
in Kansas, s only send figures less than
100. Ia Iowa, where cool, cloudy wealth
or generally prevailed in spring followed
by changeable weather and IN some sec
tons heavy rains, only two reports of
condition are above 100, ard in Ohio,
where the drought has been severe, but
three reports of forty-fve give figures
higher than 100 The States Taking
returns higher than 100 are Vermont,
1Ol; North Carolina, l0l Alabama,
40; Mississippi, 10 /; Louisiana, 1l9 ;
Texas. 40; Kentucky, 1903; Califor-
MA l0l.
Wheat-An improvement in the con-
dition of wheat is reported from New
York, Maryland, Virginia, Michigan,
Missouri, Kansas, and to slight degree
in some other States while small. de-
cline is reported in Ohio and some of the
Southern States The average in the
winter whept States stand as follows
Connecticut "a; New York, 7S ; New
Jersey, 50 Pennsylvania, SO Della
ware, rs; Maryland, 81 Virginia, SO,
North Carolina, 1l2; South Carolina,
1913; Georgia, 1o2; Alabama, no; Ten
nessee, l05 West Virginia, 95; Ken
tucky, l12; Ohio, rs; Indiana, sS ;
Missouri, &C.
OF the States producing almost exclu-
sively spring wheat Maine, 10S New
Hampshire, 1903 Vermont, 104; Wis
consin, 101 ; Minnesota, 40; Iowa, 10s
Nebraska, l12 Oregon, 95 California,
(which is not fully reported), 12) for
early sown, and ll2 for late. Kansas,
spring, 95 winter, so /; Illinois, spring,
lO4 winter, 90; Michigan, spring, 9S
winter 81.
The average condition for the United
States is almost exactly the same as in
June, or 94-6 per cent less than an aver
age The quality of the grain is uni
formly superior in the Middle States.
In Ohio, Michigan, and Missouri, and
wherever inferior condition is reported
the stlaw is short, but the heads are gen.
era ly long and well-filIed, the kernels
plump and heavy. The quality of the
Southern Wheat will probably prove as
fine a. any ever produced in that section
in thrashing The fuluess of the heads
in proportion to the quality of the straw
causes the yield to exceed the expecta
ton, and may go far to offset the small
decrease in the reported condition. 1t
is quite probable that the general excel
lence of the grain will make the present
crop of equal valne to that of last year.
There has been almost entire exemption
from rust and comparatively little com
plant OF insects. The Hessian fly is |
reported in several places. more numer-
ously in the Ohio Valley and the chinch
bug has used losses in many counties
Of Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan.