The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-24
CROP PROSPECTS.

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WASHINGTON, July 23.-The July re.
port Of agriculture Is now ready. The
reports Of corn represent 991 counties,
including an area usually producing 700,:
100000 bushels annually, as indicating an
increase Of 70 per cent: This is equiva.
lent to more than three fourths Of o mil
lion acres. The total area in this great
crop Of the country, which nearly equals
IN extent the aggregate Of all other tiled
crops together, Is probably about thirty.
five million acres. The States in which
the increase of acreage Is reported are as
follows:
New Jersey per cent, Pennsylvania Q,
South Carolina Q, Georgia i, Alabama 8,
Mississippi I, Louisiana 8, Texas s, Ar.
kansas 4, West Virginia Q, Kentucky 9,
Ohio 2, Michigan 10, Indiana /, Illinois
2, Iowa !, Missouri 4, Kansas IS, Nebras.
ka 20, California II. A diminution ap.
pears in Maine OF 4 per cent, Vermont 3,
Massachusetts 4, Rhode Island 8, Con.
necticut 0, New York /, North Carolina
2, Tennessee l, Wisconsin 4, Minnesota 8.
The remaining are reported the same as
last year. OF reports from $50 counties,
1858 place the condition above one hun.
dred, and 413 below one hundred. Illinois
Is represented by 65 counties, of which
22 stand above the average and % below
or G4 counties in Missouri the condition
of corn Is above the average in 16 and
below in 25. Of S6 counties In Kansas
8 only send figures less than one hundred,
In Iowa, when cloudy weather generally
prevailed, and in some sections heavy
rains, two reports of the condition are
above 100, and in Ohio, where the drought
had been severe, but three reports OF As,
figures higher than 100. The. States
making extensions higher than 100 are:
Vermont 101, North Carolina 101, Ala
bama 110, Mississippi 110, Louisiana 119,
Texas ITO, Kentucky 1903, California 101.
The following return condition below
the average: Maine 90, New Hampshire
9S, Massachusetts 9S, Rhode Island 90,
Pennsylvania 98, Delaware SO, Maryland
81, Virginia 94, South Carolina SO, Georgia
"a, Florida SO, Arkansas 95, West VIr-
ginia 95, Ohio 90, Michigan 90, Indiana
", Illinois 90, Wisconsin SO, Minnesota
SO, Iowa SO, Missouri 81, Kansas 9S, Ne.
braska 81, Oregon 80. Tennessee is plac-
ed at 100; great improvement.
In the condition of wheat it Is reported
from New York, Maryland, Virginia,
Michigan, Missouri, Kansas and to Q
slight degree in some of the other States,
while small decline is reported in Ohio
and in some Southern States. Average
winter wheat States stands as follows:
Connecticut "a, New York 7S, New Jer.
sey 90, Pennsylvania 90, Delaware rs,
Maryland 81, Virginia 90, North Carolina
liz, South Carolina 103, Georgia 102, Al.
ALBANIA 116, Mississippi 10S, Texas las,
Arkansas 10G, Tennessee 100, West Vir-
ginia 05, Kentucky 112, Ohio 75, Indiana
So, Missouri 60, OF States producing almost
exclusively spring wheat Maine 108, New
Hampshire 103, Vermont 104, Wisconsin
101, MINNESOTA 10, Iowa 109, Nebraska
liz, Oregon 95. California which Is not
fully reported 120 for early sown and 112
tor late, Kansas spring 95, winter 90, ILL
nois spring 104, winter 90, Michigan
spring 98, white 81.
The average condition for the United
States is almost exactly the same as in
June, or 94per cent less than an average.
The quality OF the grain Is uniformly su-
perior in the middle States into Ohio,
Michigan and Missouri, and wherever an
inferior condition is reported the straw Is
short, but the heads are generally long
and well filled; the kernel Is plump and
heavy. The southern wheat will probably
prove as fine as any ever produced
in that section, in threshing, full
ness Of the, heads and in proportion
to the quality Of the straw causes the
yield to exceed the expectation, and may
go far to offset the, small decrease re-
ported. The general excellence OF the
grain will make the present crop ofequal
value to that Of last year. There has been
almost an entire exemption from rust and
comparatively little complaint Of insects.
The Hessian fly Is reported in several
places-more numerously in the Ohio
Valley, and the chinch bug has caused
losses in many counties of Illinois, Iowa
and Michigan.