Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-06-24

SA'.o, "oSn LILO eSo happened TO
catch the dispatch relating to the
death Of Coleman published in the
Seattle Post, and ascertaining by
telegraphing that the child b., was
SO anxlously looking for was here
and we'll cared for, the blotEer took
the first steum-. for this place and
arrived to da, and claimed the lost
child, and ,"-.nuIrUw the So strangely
reunited VA. take their departure on
the stea:-1r Dakota for San Francis
co. Tu- little girl is very bris ht
and intelligent, and made MANY
warm friends for herself both in
school and at home, but she had
been taught by her father to believe
that her mother was dead, and moth.
ing to the contrary Was known until
yesterday.
Grain Product Of the Uni.ed States.
WASHINGTON, June 19.-The cen.
sus office to-day issued the report of
}. r. Dodge, special agent for the
collection OF statistics Of agriculture.
giving the resnl, Of tie official count
of areas, and the product of cereals
OF the several States and Territories
1t is the census taken in 1880 of
crops Of 1879 aud the ACREAGE on
which they were grown. 1t is piven
in comparison with the production
of 1869, reported in the census Of
1870. Supplementary and corrected
returns may slightly change these
aggregates in the final publication.
The most striking suggestion Of
these figures is tho Unprecedented
advance in productions during the
last decade, amounting to nearly 100
per cent. for oil kinds taken together,
while the increase of ten years pre-
ceding, was but IL per cent. This
wide difference is largely real from
obvious causes, though in part only
apparent, by reason of the partial
failure of the corn crop of 1869 and
heavy yield of 1879. The cereal in.
crease was between so aud GO per
cent. The acreage of crops now for
the first tinie given by the census
Will IN future prevent a misleading
effect OF very low and of excessive
production in census years.
The apparent increase in corn il
133 per cent. Three great corn
growing States, Illinois, Iowa, and
Missouri, producing more than the
entire country did in 1869. Tn.
advance in Illinois from 129 92I !.
1886 to 1921, 796, 1896 bushels, isio part
the result of al extension of area
but largely due to the fact that lie
crop of 1869 was partial failure by
reason OF drought. A fve-fold in.
crease in Kansas is caused by beuyv. !,
immigration and cheap and ferlils
lands, and still higher progre s from
similar causes is noted in Nabraska. Z
Yet IN both of these States there Wa
still q low yield, from drought and
grasshoppers. The Cotton States
show a gain of about forty per cent.
slnce 1870. The low ratio between
the hsures OF area and the product
IN Sc 5eral of these States is partly
explained by the general prevalence
|of drought. The Pacific Coast
region, not specially we'll suited to
this crop, exhibits o creditable in
crease in fair proportion to the ad-
vance in population. As was sx-
pected, there Was o small extension
OF maize cultivation in the Terrific
ries which is impracticable If not
impossible on all the lowest ele-
vations.
The comparatively steady and
rapid increase in wheat growing
is shown by comparison with former
enumerations, the gain being IS per
cent. in the last decade and 66 and
6O respectively in those Immediately
preceding. All States and Terrific
riss except Florida and Wyoming
include wheatin their reports. Sew
eral States on the Atlantic and gulf
coasts show diminished productions.
Seven-tentcs of the entire crop il
produced in nine States in the.
following order of precedence Z
Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota.
Iowa, California, Missouri and Wis.
consin. There has been for several
years increasing interest in wheat
culture in all Southern States. az
pecially in the regions of the Car
olinas and Georgia and in northern
Texas, and there has been q dispos-
ition to experiment in the more
southern portions of the cotton belt
even in Louisiana and Florida. Il
is confined in the former State 10
northern pariahes in the uplands
between Wichita aud Red rivers.
The lowest yield in the Southern
States is altogether due to insult
able soil or climate, but the practice
Of using wheat field for winter PAS
ture is consideration often deemed
more important than harvesting rip.
ened grain. The season of 1879 Was
also exceptionally unfavorabls in
this region. The average yield be-
ing but five of six bushels in several
of these States.
4ne production OF oats has been
extended mainly in the west and
south. Four-tenths of the area in
this crop with nearly half its product
is found in 4 States, Illinois, Iowa,
New York and Psnnsyvauia. Here
tofore it has been an unproducing
snd unpopular crop in southern
iatitudes. being extremely liable to
blight until the introduction of rust
proof varieties and the practice Of
fall sowing for winter pasture. s
barley-California and New Yofk
produce nearly bali this crop. Wis.,
consin, Iowa and Minnesota have
made the heaviest increase and now
produce the largest part of the re-
naming half. 1t is making no APP
probable advance in the south.
Rye-Tbe increase of rye has been
0nlv IL D6r rant chov;rv 1n~l:~