Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-11-10
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WI EAT.

lie wheat crop OF the present veal
il short one, and the deficiency il
augmented by a marked deterioration
/ IN quality.
The little grown in New England
is as small quantity as ever, but mo-
much reduced. The Middle States
have about two thirds of the crop oi
last year, though the decline is I'M
equal, being greatest in New Yorl
and becoming less in degree with low.
ler degrees Of latitude. Virginia il
the last State Iii this direction to show
a reduction In yield; all the other
Southern States have increased theil
production, some of them 80 to % per
cent. None of the States east Of the
Mississippi, except Wisconsin, appear
to have equaled the cop of last year
Minnesota Is credited with an increas.
cd production, Notwithstanding the
ravages Of grasshoppers and the loss
es from sprouting in the shock. The
other prairie States, as far as report
ed, show a decrease, but the extension
Of area, both IN reported and unre-
ported counties, may make up in some
degree this deficiency on final can
yassing for aggregate estimates. The
Pacific coast crop 10 also short.
The average for the entire territory
reported the present month is about
SO per cent of last years production.
If this indicates the total depreciation,
it amounts to nearly 62,0OO,OOO bush
els, and gives a crop of 246, ,000, ,O0O
bushels. But the quality is. also lower
than last year, and the depreciation is
heaviest in what are known in spe-
cial sense as wheat-growing regions,
In quality, the crop averages 81, or
IA per cent. below sound condition.
This Is equivalent to a further reduc-
tion Of the crop, though it means
poorer bread rather than less Of it.
CORN.
The condition of the corn crop, as
reported. on the lst Of October, is ex-
ceptionally high. Its average status
in several of the states is above the
standard Of good condition; i. e.. IN
extra thrift and productive vigor.
This is the case in all the Southern
States except Louisiana and Texas
in all the Middle States except New
York, and in Missouri and Kansas in
the West. In the remaining States,
with few exceptions, the averages are
higher than usual, after the custo-
mary ravages of insects and wither-
ing of drouth. Wisconsin appears to
have suffered most from frost. In the
Ohio Valley States the extraordinary
promise of September has been some
what reduced by frost in low lands,
or in the area planted late and slow in
maturing. There will be large
quantity Of understandable corn soft
and loose on the ear, and consider
able proportion Of unsound fodder.
The crop will be comparatively large
in quantity, but poor in quality, cx-
cept in the Southern and Pacific
States. Some injury from frost, be-
tween September Goth and Goth, re-
suited as far South as Tennessee in
the West, and from Maine TO Virgin
ia on the Atlantic Coast. In the South
the principal losses resulted from
storms. The eq,iinoctial in Texas was
very destructive in the southern part
Of the State. Worms caused some
damage in Florida, and drnngl,t was
injurious in portions of the State.
A return of quantities harvested
will not be made till next month,
when the comparative result win he
better understood.
OATS.
Returns make the entire product 5
per cent. greater than last year.
BARLEY.
The product of barley returned is
81 per cent. Of last years crop. About