The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-29

Michigan Crops-rhe Report from the State
Department Tor september.

Department Tor September.
The Secretary of State, in his Sep
tember report of the condition of crops
in Michigan, says: In July the depart
ment furnished correspondence blanks
suitable for threshers' reports OF wheat
and oats. These blanks were distrib-
uted to thre~hers, who were requested
to make n daily record of the acres and
bushels threshed, and to return the rec
ord TO correspondents on the Goth of
August. The record has not been made
as full rs could be de ired, owing in part
to the inexperience of the threshers, and
IN some cases, doubtless, to their lack of
interest, but mainly, it is believed to
the lateness of the season and the bad
condition of wheat. The harvest was
about two weeks later than usual, and
beg ming on the 3lst of July. it rained
continuously for ten or twelve days
making it impos ,ible to begin tire ,hing
until near the time when the records
were TO be returned TO correspondents.
Many of the correspondents st tie that
threShing has but just commenced.
The number of acres of wheat
threshed in the southern four tiers of
counties, as shown by the threshers
records, is l05, go, or per cent. of the
wheat acreage of these counties last
spring, as shown by the Supervisors
reports. The yield was 500 ,322 bush
els, an average of Ia bushels per mere,
which is more than bushel less than
the average as estimated by correspond
ents in August.
Special reports received from thirty
five counties do not change the August
estim ties OF the amount of wheat in
lured by rain That portion OF the in
lured wheat that can be marketed at all
brings from 30 to - per cent of the
price of No. | wheat. but no incon-id-
cradle amount is worthless except for
feed.
The oat crop is probably one of the
best ever grown in the State. The
yield per acre, SO far as reported by
threshers, is thirtv-one bushels.
Corn, though very late, promises an
average crop. The estimate for barley is
the same as in August, twenty-six
bushels per acre. Meadows and past
ures. and clover sowed this year. are in
excellent condition. Beef cattle and
sheep are in better flesh than on Sept.
|, 1881. In the central, southeastern
and southwestern parts of the State,
winter apples promise from one-third to
one-half, and in the northern counties
about eight-tenths of an average crop.
The average for the State is 55. Late
peaches promise six-tenths Of an aver
age crop.
Reports have been received of the
quantity of wheat marketed by lrmers
during the months Of July and August
mt $50 elevators and mills. OF these
234 are in the southern four tiers of
counties, which is about one-half of the
whole number Of elevators and mills in
these counties. The number of bushels
reported marketed in July is 2l3,355,
and in August 726,07S. total of 939.-
433 bushels, of which 190939 bushels
were marketed in the first or southern
tier of counties. 900, 300 bu ,hels in the
second tier, 5.779 bushels in the third
tier, 165,7 07 bushels in the fourth tier,
and 107 ,453 bushels in the counties
north of the southern four tiers. At
one-third of the elevators and mills
from which reports have been received
there was no wheat marketed during
the month of July.
The number of each class of live stock
6 months old and over in the State
last spring, as shown by the Super
visors' reports, and the comparison with
the number on hand in the spring of
1881, is as follows Horses, 31S,73l, an
increase of 1910; mich COWS, 3l0,-
337. decrease of 1858; cattle other
than mich cows, 3l7,7S4, q decrease OF
4,447; hogs, AS. 101, an increase of 81
300; sheep, 2,2l6,305, an increase of
l20897. The reports for cities are very
Incomplete.