The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-15
Crop Conditions.

| summary CndI CoIH 10 'AJ WV
crop this year. wheat is better than
last year, but not up to the crop oil
| 1880, and rye, oats, potatoes and hay
are exceptionally good. This is the
briefest summary of the crop reports
published this morning from a large
number of points scattered all over
the Northwestern States. Six weeks
ago, when the Times published its
last general crop report, fair weather
was just beginning to set in after a
most discouraging wet and cold
spring, and farmers were tempted to
make the most of their improved
prospects, and it was estimated that
the corn crop. if the weather changed
for the better and remained so, would
be from one-fitth to one. fourth bet
ter than it was last year, when it was
none too good. being only four fifths
as large as it was in each of the two
preceding years. But the promise:
of fine weather were not kept, anC
the dispatches now presented show
that corn will not be an average crop
anywhere, and in considerable dis2
tricts the farmers do not now expect
to get more than half of an average
crop, though warm weather ever at
this late day would materially refuge
the loss. In the southern part d the
corn and wheat belt the loss J less
severe than in the northern pat, and
in the latter the corn is doingIolera-
bly, we'll on uplands. or whre the
ground happens to be well trained.
In few localities the reprts are
quite favorable, but these are the
rare exceptions. The corn cop of the
United States in 1880 was t,537 $780,
$40 bushels, which was sight reduc-
ton from the crop of thu previous
year. In 1881 the crop fel to 1,194-
916,000 bushels. A reduction of one
fouth-and the dispatches Indicate that
it may be as serious as Shat-would
cut it down to about 900, 400, 900 BUSH
els, But it may not be so bad as
that. In all localities the corn is very
backward, but in many of the them
it is promising fairly after all, and
with fine weather will not show a
great reduction from last year. Still
the fact remains that last years crop
was a large reduction from those of
the two previous years, and it is GER
tain that this years crop will not
come up to that of last year. The
wheat prospects are much more en-.
couraging, though they are not all
that was hoped from early in the
season. There has been considera-
BILE 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 addi
tions to the area, and the same is true
of some other localities. In lowe
and Wisconsin what wheat there is
is promising well. In Wisconsin the
crop will be larger than it was last
year, but in Iowa it will not be SC
large-the gain in one State being an
offset to the loss in the other. Last
year the wheat crop of Iowa over
100000 bushels, or about half what
it was in 1880; this year it will prob.
ably be somewhat less than last year
In Wisconsin the wheat crop was
nearly 18,000,0O0 last year, small
gain over 1880, and this year it may
60 up above 29,0O0,OOO bushels. In
Illinois the wheat crop last year was
26,S22,OOO bushels, or barely one-hal1
what it was the year before this
year the indications are that the croI
will exceed that of last year, and may
amount to 10000, 900, but good dea
depends on the luck the farmers have
In harvesting, for the wetness of the
ground delays the work and compeIs
the cradle to be used instead of the
machine in many cases. Nebraska
last year produced little less than
l4,OO0,000 bushels of wheat, and this
year promises to go two or three mil.
lions above that; the acreage has in.
creased and the grain is looking we'll
The finest reports of wheat come from
Michigan. The crop in that State
two years ago was 3O,OOO,OOO bush
els. and last year it was only 3
little oyer 21,0OO,OO0 bushels thi,
year the crop promises to be near.
~ or quite equal to that of 1880
In Indiana the crop two years age
was over 3S,OOO.OOO and last yea,
about 81 800, 900 bushels. This yea,
it will exceed the crop of last year
and may reach the figures of two
years ago. In Missouri corn is in q
fair condition and will probably yield
about what 1t did last year it NAV
yield more. The wheat is very prom
lSing. The crop last wear. % OOO O0C