The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-25
THE AGRICULTURAL REPORT.
Present Condition Of the Crops and Prospects In
tho Fields Of the United states-General
Excellence Of tho 0rain-The Yield
viii Equal That Of Last Year
Entire Exemption from
Rust and Insects

WASHINGTON, July "a. 1872.
The July report OF agriculture Ia now ready. The
reports Of corn represent $50 counties including an
usually producing 700, 900 900 Of bushels annu-
ally and indicating an increase OF three per cent
This Is equivalent to more than three-fourths Of
million acres and the total area In this great crop
Of the country, which nearly equals In extent the
aggregate Of all other titled crops together is pro-
badly about thirty i've millions Of acres.
The States In which an increase OF acreage is re-
porteu are as follows:-New Jersey per cent;
Pennsylvania, Q; South Carolina, q; Georgia, 1;
Alabama, 8; Mississippi 1; Louisiana, 81; Texas,
8; Arkansas, a; West virginia, Q; Kentucky, 2;
Ohio, 2; Michigan, 10; Indiana. /; Illinois, 2; Iowa,
1; Missouri A. Kansas, %; Nebraska, 20; Califor-
MIA, !. va.
mont 3 Massachusetts, 4. Rhode Island g. Conhecti-
cut 0. New York !, North Carolina 2, Tennessee
naming States is reported the same as last year.
Uf the reports from $50 countess 263 place the con-
don one Ia S 1sGM o1 Of wbn
stand above the average and % below. Ofe4 coun-
ties IN the condition 81 corr "a aSSye the
in Kansas, s only send figures less than one
hundred In Iowa, where cold cloudy weather
able weather, and in some sections heavy rams
only two reports Of condition are above one hun
drsd and In Ohio where the av mas Deen
higher than one hundred. The states making re-
turns higher than one hundred are vermont, lol;
North Carolina 1O1; Alabama, ITO; Mississippi, 10;
Louisiana, lls; Texas, no; Kentucky, 1903; Caifor-
nia 101.
age:-Maine, 06; New Hampshire, 0S; Massachu-
setts, 9s Rhode Island, 02; Connecticut 9S; New
York, 96; New Jersey, oe; Pennsylvania, 9s; Della
Ina, %; Georgia, %; Florida, Is; Arkansas, o5;
West Virginia, o.; Ohio, 90; Michigan, e6; Indiana,
81 sd ey
81. Tennessee Il placed at 100.
WHEAT.
An Improvement In the condition OF wheat is re-
ported from New York, Maryland, Virginia, Michi-
gam Missouri, Kansas, and to slight degree IN
other States while small decline y epoTS Ss
acreages In the winter wheat States stand as FOL
ows:-Connecticut, o.; New. York, 7s; New Jersey.
Virginia, 80; North Carolina, III; south Carolina
1903; Georgia, 1o2; Alabama, 116; Mississippi JOB;
Virginia. s6; Kentucky 1l2 Ohio, IS; Indiana, So {;
OF the States producing almost exclusively
SPRING WHEAT
Maine, 1903; New Hampshire 1os Vermont 1o4;
Wisconsin, 1ol; Minnesota, 10; Iowa, 1903; Nebras.
ka ll2 oregon, oS California (which f. not fully
Kansas spring, 95; winter, 60; Illinois spring 104;
winter, %; Michigan spring, es; winter, 81 :.
almost exactly the same as In June, or 94-6 per
cent less than an average The quality Of the grain
Ohio Michigan ap' and Missouri, and wherever
inferior condition is reported, the straw II
nr put ea the the eSs are eue aa
The quality of the Southern wheat will probably
prove as fine as any ever produced In that section
In threshing. The fulness of the heads In proper
ton to the quality OF the straw causes the yield to
exceed the expectation, and may go far to offset
the small decrease in the reported condition. 1t Is
grain will make the present crop of equal value to
that of last year. There has been almost entire ex
empton from rust and comparatively little COM
complaint of insects. The Hessan ny 10 reported
in several places, more numerOusy In the Ohio Val
ley, and the chinch bug has caused losses In many
counties of Illinois, Iowa and Michigan.