Connecticut western news., 1872-08-09
The Coming Cr0NS.

The July.report of agriculture Is new ready. The reports of corn represent )a9 counties. including an area usually producing 700, ,OO0, ,O00 bushels annually, | md indicating an increase Of 3 per cent. This is equivalent to more than three. tourths of 1000, ,000 acres, and the total lrea in this great crop of the country, which nearly equals in extent the aggre' gate of all other titled crops together, is probably about 25.0O0, ,000 acres.
 The States in which an increase of acreage is reported are as follows New Jersey, 2 per cent. Pennsylvania, 2 South Carolina. 1; Georgia, Alabama }; Mississippi, 1 1; Louisiana, 8; Texas. g.; Arkansas, 4; West Virginia, 2; Ken- lucky, 2; Ohio, 2; Michigan. 10; h. diaua, l; Illinois, 2 Iowa, Missouri, 1; Kansas, 28; Nebraska, 20; Califor- nia, 1.
 A diminution appears in Main of 4 per cent. Vermont, 2; Massachusetts, f; Rhode Islaud, 5: Connecticut, 6; New York, 1; Wisconsin, 4 Minnesota, 3. The area in the remaining States is reported the same as last year, Of the reports of 9S9 counties, 263 place the condition above 100; 413 below 100. Tllin ,is is represented by 65 counties, of which p stand above the average and | 23 below. Of GA counties in Missouri, the condition of corn is above the average | in Is and below in 25. Of 36 counties n Kansas, 8 only send figures less than 1OU. Iu Iowa, where cool, cloudy wealth IT generally prevailed in spring followed by chaugeable weather and in some sec- tions heavy rains, only two reports of condition are above 100, ard in Ohio, where the drought has been severe, but three reports of forty-9ve give figures higher than 100. The States p'aking returns higher than 100 are : Vermont, 1O1; North Carolina, 1O1 Alabama, no; Mississippi, 110 Louisiana, 119 ; Texas. no; Kentucky, 1O3; Califor- mia, 101.
 Wheat-An improvement in the coLss iition of wheat is reported from New York, Maryland, Virginia, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, and to slight degree | in some other States while 8 small de- cline is reported in Ohio and some of the | Southern States. The average in the winter wheat States stand as follows : Connecticut, 94 New York, 78; New | Jersey, 69 Pennsylvania, 69 Della ware, 75; Maryland, 57 Virginia, 99 North Carolina, 112; South Carolina, 1O3 Georgia, 1O2 Alabama, no; Ten nessee, 105; West Virginia, 9j; Ken tucky, 112; Ohio, 75; Indiana, SS ; Missouri, 66.
 Of the States producing almost exclu- sively spring wheat: Maine, 108; New Hampshire, 1O3 Vermont, 104; Wis cnusin, 1O1 Minnesota, no; Iowa, 1OS ; Nebraska, 112 Oregon, 95 California, (which is not fully reported), 120 for Garly sown, and 112 for late. Kansas, spring, 95; winter, 60; Illinois, spring, l04; winter, 92; Michigan, spring, 9S; winter, 81.
 The average condition for the United States is almost exactly the same a in June, or.g4-6 per cent. less than an aver age. The quality of the grain is uni t0rmlv superior in the Middle States. In Ohio, Michigan, and Missouri, and wherever inferior condition is reported the st1aw is short, but the heads are gen era ly long and well-filled, the kernels plump and heavy. The quality of the Southern Wheat will probably prove as fine as any ever produced in that section 1 in thrashing. The fitness of the heads in proportion to the quality of the straw causes the yield to exceed the expecta ton, ana may go lar to oHseG the smal decrease in the reported condition. II is quite probable that the general excel lence of the grain will make the pre- ent crop of equal value to that of last year There has been almost entire exemption from uast and comparatively little com ulaifft Os insects. The Hessian fly is reported in several places. more numer ouslyin the Ohio Valley, and the chincl bug has. s.caused losses in many counties of Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan.