The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-12
CROPS OF !TuE COUNTRY.
Show Ins of the July Returns TO tho r
pnrtnicnt OF AZ sricuIturc.

SHOW Ius of the July Returns 10 tho De.
pnrtnicnt OF Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE July re-
turns Of the Department Of Agriculture
from all the States and Territories in the
United States indicate IN increase in the
area planted in corn exceeding four per
cent, or fully two and half million acres.
In Ohio, Indiana and Illinois there has
been n loss in acreage but in NIL other
States OF any prominence in corn growing
there is some increase. 49, -
In the Gull States the advance has been
heavy in obedience 10 the instinct, OF self
preservation, the usual result OF = high
price for crops. The immediate extension
OF its breadth and cultivation was pre-.
vented in the Ohio Valley only by exces-
sivc rains and temperature that made e,,ry
planting impossible. SEasa HzE
The States reporting decreased area
are: Maine, | per cent; Ohio, California
6; Washington territory, 0; Rhode Island,
.; New York and Oregon report the same
area as lust year; New Hampshire, Penn.
sylvania and Delaware make | per cent
increase; Vermont. Now Jersey, Mary.
land, Wisconsin, Missouri and Colorado, .;
Massachusetts, North CaroliAa, West Vir-
ginia, Michigan and Iowa, 3; New Mexico,
j.; Connecticut and Virginia, 8; Louisiana
and Teunessec,6 Mississippi, 4; South
Carolnn, Florida, Arkansa and Kentucky,
.; Kansas, III Nebraska, II; Gcorgia and
Alabama, l3; Texas, Il; Minnesota, 20, and
Dakota, 49, Though 70 per cent in Mime.
sofa seems large, the corn area OF that
State has, until recently, been less than
that OF two counties Of Illinois, e
. The condition OF the corn hus been low
from late planting, cold and wet weather
aud rcplanting after floods, but has been
improving during June and is generally in
fair vigor and active growth, promising u
fur better condition in August should the
season continue favorable us ut this date
The general average is S. against 90
in! July Of last year before
the disastrous drought set in.
It is above 100 in NIL the seacoast States
from South Carolina 10 Texas. lu Tenncs.
see, Kentucky, Kansas, Oregon and Ne.
vada II stands nt 100; Arkansas, at o.; New
Hampshire, Connecticut, New Mexico, 9G;
North Carolina, California, Utah, 05 !;
Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, ~; Massa.
chusctts, Missouri, West Virginia, %; Yer.
mont, Dakota, %; New Jersey, Delaware.
Nebraska, Washington Territory, 30;
Maine, New York, Michigan. Sc; Mime.
sofa, So; Pennsylvania, 81; Rhode Island,
Wisconsin, S; Indiana, Iowa, 30; Illinois,
8S. .7f'q, d x =. +. !. 3g=f
The State Of the largest acreage stands
lowest OF all in condition. Upon this arcn
and condition the medium yield Of pro.
duction, 100 900 bushels, is scarcely
possible; with the yield lust year the pro.
duct would exceed 1900, 100000 bushels.
The range OF possibilities covers at least
five hundred million bushels, the result de-
pending upon the meteorological condition
Of the succeeding eighty days.
Condition OF winter wheat: The average
ia higher .thap ut any previous July return,
l04g /! against l3 IS ], last July. Tho
Spring wheat average stands ut 100
instead Of 90 III 1881. Unless the
proportion OF wheat TO straw should
be less than usual, or grain be damsged
after threshing, the crop must prove .one
OF the largest ever gathered, in the country
The average condition, in the principal
winter wheat statGs is rs follows: Ohio
lOl; Kentucky, lO.; Michigan, 100; tIndi
ana. l04; Illinois, los; Missouri! III; Nan
sas, 40. = Pennsylvania and the Southern
States each stands atil00 or above Cali
iornla, 20; Oregon, Jos. - Il 80.
The spring wheat States averages are
Wisconsin, o.; Minnesota, 0s; Iowa. l03
Nebraska, los; Dakota, 93: Colorado, 0S
Maine, l0l; New Hampshire, l03;s Yer
mont, o.. l,y.5l, .ppc.Ss! !
The harvest Of winter. wheat Oh the lst 0