The Worthington advance., 1882-07-20
OUR CEREALS.
The Substance Of Seven Columns OF
Literature Giving the Condition Of
the Wheat and Other CrODs.

The Substance Of Seven Columns OF
Literature Giving the Condition of
the Wheat and Other Crops.
Seven columns of crop reports in the Chi
cago Times are thus summarized: They
show that corn will not be an average crop
anywhere and in considerable districts the
farmers do not expect to get more than half
an average crop, though warm weather, even
at this late season, would materially reduce
the loss. Inthe southern part of the corn
and wheat belt the loss is less severe than in
the northern part, and in the latter corn is
doing tolerably well on uplands or where
the ground happens to be we'll drained. In
few localities the reporters are quite favor
able, but these are rare exceptions The corn
crop of the United States in 1880 vas 1,437.-
535, $40 bushels, which was q slight reduc-
ton from the crop of the previous year. In
81 the crop fell to 1,194, ,9l6 600 bushels, or
reduction of one-fourth, md the dispatch
es indicate the loss this year may be as seri-
Gus as that, which would cut it down to
about SOC, ,OOO, 900 bushels. But it may not
be as bad as that In all localities corn is
very backward, but in many of them it is
promising favorably after all, and with fine
weather will not show q great reduction
from last year. Still the fact remains that
last years crop was q great reduction from
those OF the two previous years and it is Ger
tain this years crop will not come up to
that of last year. Wheat prospects are
much more encouraging, though they are
not all that was hoped for early in the
season. There is considerable reduction in
the acreage of wheat in Iowa, Wisconsin,
and in some parts of Minnesota, but in
other parts of the last state and in Dakota
and Nebraska there have been large additions
to the area.
The same is true ofsome other localities.
In Wisconsin the crop will be larger than
last year, but in Iowa it will nOtbe so large,
the gain i'll the one state being an Offset to
the loss in the other. Last year the wheat
crop of Iowa was over 1900 900 bushels,
or about half what it was in 1880. This
year it will probably be somewhat less tk n
last year. In Wisconsin the wheat crop was
nearly 1900, 900 last year, a small gaiz, ove-
1880, and this year 1t may 60 above q, 900,
600 bushels. In Illinois the wheac crop last
year was &c, &C., 900, bushels or barely one
half what it was the year before. This year
the indications are the crop VII exceed that
Of last year and may amount to 10000, 600.
but a good deal depends on the luck farmers
have in harvesting, for the wetness of the
ground delays work and compels the era
die to be used instead of machines in many
cases. Nebraska last year produced little
less than IA, ,OO0, 900 bushels of wheat and this
year promises to go 100000 or 5000, 1000
above that. The acreage has increased and
the grain is looking well. The finest report
ofwheat comes from Michigan. The crop of
in that state two years ago was over 10000
OOO,O and last year was little over q
0OO, 900 bushels. This year the crop PROM
ises to be nearly or quite equal to 1880. In
Indiana the crop two years ago was over
$4,000, 600, and last year about 81, 500, 900
bushels. This year it will exceed the crop
last year, and may nearly reach the figures
of two years ago. In Missouri corn is in a
fair condition, and will probably yield what
it did last year. 1t may yield more. Wheat
is very promising. The crop last year,. TO-
600, 600 bushels, was about two-thirds the
crop of two years ago, and the crop this
year may attain the dimensions of that OF
1880.
From reliable reports from Minnesota
the crop last year was larger than that oftwo
years ago. This years crop will probably
not vary much from 81, ,OOO, 900 bushels, pro-
duced in 1881. Corn in Illinois last year was
not much more than half the crop of 1879,
and this year it is almost certain to be much
below what it was last year. The same is
true of corn in Iowa, and even in Indiana,
where the bad weather has had the least et-
feet, the crop will not be quite as large ~
last year. In all these States rye, oats and
hay are, with very rare executions, in vari.
Gus localities, uncommonly promising In
most places these crops will be larger than
ever before. In Kansas the wheat harvest Il
nearly over, and the crop is estimated at 30
600, 600 bushels, or more than so per cent in
excess OF the crops of the lasttwo years.