The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-01-04

Is short one, and the deficiency is aug
mented by,a marked deterioration in
quality.
The little grown in New England is
as small quantity as ever, but not
much reduced. The Middle States
have abont two-thirds the crops of last
year, though the decline is unequal,
being greatest in New York and be-
coming less in degree with lower de-
grees of latitude. Virginia is the last
state in this direction TO show a reduc-
ton of yield ; all the other Southern
States have increased their production,
some of them so to rs per cent, None
of the states east of the Mississippi, ex-
cept Wisconsin, appear to have equaled
the crop of last year. Minnesota is
credited with an increased production,
Notwithstanding the ravages of grass
hoppers and the losses from sprouting
in the shock. The other prairie states,
as far as reported, show decrease, but
the extension of area, both in reported
and unreported counties, may make
up in some degree this deficiency on a
final canvassing for aggregate esti-
mates. The Pacific coast crop is 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 100000 bushels,
and gives crop of GAG, 900, 900 bushels.
But the quality is also lower than last
year. and the depreciation is heaviest
in what are known in special sense
as wheat-growing regions. In quality
the crop averages "a, or 16 per cent. be-
low sound condition. This is equiva-
lent to further reduction of the crop,
though it means poorer bread rather
than less of it.
The losses by sprouting and rotting
in shock or stack produced in many
places panic, which stimulated ex-
aggeration. and the natural result is
the ultimate conclusion that "the loss
Is not so heavy as was expected" 1t
is bad enough, however, when ship
ments of wheat from Maryland to Ohio
are necessary to make mixture that
will produce passable flour. The
wheat of best quality is to be found in
Delaware, the South, the Pacific coast.
and in New England. That of the
West averages lower than usual in ev-
cry state, and among the lowest avera-
ges are those of Indiana, West Virgin
ia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois.
The condition of the corn crop, as re-
ported on the 1st of October, is excep-
tionally high. Its average status in
several of the states is above good con-
dition i. e., in extra thrift and pro-
ductive 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 re-
naming states, with few exceptions,
the averages are higher than usual of
late years, after the customary ravages
of insects and whitening of drought.
Wisconsin appears to have sustained
most injury from frost. In the Ohio
Valley states the extraordinary prom
Use of September has been somewhat
reduced by frost on low lands, or in
the area planted late and slow in ma
turing. There will be large quantity
of understandable corn soft and loose
on the ear, and considerable proper
ton of unsound fodder. The crop will
be comparatively large in quantity
but poor in quality, except in the
Southern and Pacific States. Some in
jury from frost. between September 20
and 80, resulted as far south as Tennes-
see In the West, and from Maine to
Virginia on the Atlantic Coast. In the
South, the principal losses resulted
from storms, The equinoctial in Tex
as was very destructive in the south
ern part of the state. Worms caused
some damage in Florida, AMI drought
was injurious in portions of the state.
Returns make the entire product of
oats per cent. greater than last year.
Between the thirty-fourth and the for
ty-nrst paraiieis, as previously report
ed, an unprecedented crop, as reported
July ], was very largely diminished in
the product saved, and universally
damaged in quality by the long contin-
ued and flooding rains. Early drought
pinchsd tho crop in Delaware, Mary.
land, and parts of Virginia, and rava.
ges of the army-worm, extensive in
Ohio, had some effect in adjoining
states also in diminishing the product
gathered. Yet In that section, as o
whole, the vast quantities destroyed
scarcely reduced tthe product below
that of the previous year. The COM
parative figures are Delaware, 63
Maryland, 81; Virginia, 81 North
Carolina, l01; West Virginia, "a
Ohio, 100; Kentucky, 9S; Tennessee,
1902; Indiana, II; Illinois, lO6; Iowa,
10Y; Missouri, 100; Kansas, "a; Ne
braska, 70. Tn all these states the quail
1ty is below that of last year, averaging
about sS. Outside the rainy section,
with few executions, superior crops in
quantity and quality have been pro-
duced. The New England States re-
turn quality averaging about 2 pei
cent. above and an increase of about Z
per cent. in product, except in Rhode
Island, where, owing chiefly to extra
ordinary havoc by the army-worm, il
was reduced to Is per cent. below. In
five states which produce about two
thirds of the entire crop the figures
representing the comparative product
and quality are New York, 1O6 and
SO; Pennsylvania, ITO and 9s; Ohio
100 and 50; Illinois, LOG and 81; Wis
in