Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-13
CROP PROSPECTS.
May Report of the Department OF Ag.
rfculture.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE May report
OF the condition of wheat by the statistIcian
department of agriculture, makes the aver
age for the entire breadth 100 standard, and
of undiminished vitality and medium
growth. The average condition is about 102
higher than reported for many years. In
April last year it was Sc. Only the States
On the north Atlantic coast and those of the
Ohio valley and Texas and those OF the Pa
cife coast fail to reach 100, while the extra
ordinary vigor of the crop in other sections
fully compensate for these local deficiencies,
which amount to per cent. in Connecticut,
10 in New York, 6 in Pennsylvania, "a in
Texas, in West Virginia, 2 in Kentucky, Q
in Ohio, in California and II in Oregon.
The bureau of agriculture of Illinois tele-
graphs the condition of winter wheat as 5
per cent. above the average in the northern
district and 8 above in the central and in
the southern. This department makes the
average by counties, 104; corrected average,
100. In the eastern belt, represented largely
by New York and Pennsylvania, the weather
has been too cold and the ground too wet,
causing uneven growth; and yellow color in
West Virginia and Ohio, and frost on the
10th and 18th of April, cut down most of
the advanced growth; and low temperature
and storms chilled and discolored the plant
in heavy soils and low lands. The chineh
bug is out in force in large portion of
Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, and had ap-
peared in some parts of Virginia, but has
done no material injury yet, and it is to be
hoped the cold storms may destroy the pest.
Chinch bugs and army worms are doing
much injury in Texas. There is frequent
reference to the brown rust on the leaves in
several States South, but the stem is not gen.
orally attacked, and the injury is nominal
and now too late for much loss from this
cause. Rye is also in good condition,
the general average being sc. 1t was
100 on the 1st of April, 1882, and
winter barley is grown in California and
New York, in which the average condition
is respectively SO and 20, and the general
average IS. Cotton returns represent 81 per
cent. of the proposed area planted LIST of
May, against So per cent. in average years;
planning is more advanced than usual from
Virginia to Florida, and more backward in
all other States, especially Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee, in con-
sequence of the overflow. The proportion
planted in Mississippi is IS per cent, instead
of IS in average year; II in Louisiana in
stead of SO, 76 in Arkansas instead of IS,
and II in Tennessee instead of so per cent.
The deficiency the LIST of May Appropriated
100000 acres, with plsnting still in progress.
The Appropriated spring blowing done up
to the LIST of May with the average year is
greater the present season upon the Atlantic
coast, south of New England, in the Ohio
valley, and Missouri valley. 1t is less than
usual in the Eastern States, in the North
western States, in the lower Mississippi val
ley, and on the Pacific coast. The condition
of moving is represented by go, slight de-
iciency being in the Ohio valley and North
Atlantic States.