The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-07-15
CROP CONDITIONS.
ONE OF THE BEST WHEAT
CROPS EVER HARVESTED.
Less Favorable Reports From
the Corn Growing States of
the Northwest--An Excess
of Rain and Cold
Weather.


morning publishes seven columns of
crop reports. 1t says in a general
summary that corn is a very poor
crop this year; wheat is better than
last year, but not up to the crop OF
1880; rye, oats, potatoes and hay are
exceptionally good. This is the
briefest summary Of the crop reports
published this morning from large
number Of points scattered all over
the Northwestern States. Six weeks
ago, when the Times published its
last general crop reports, fair weather
was just beginning to set in after a
most discouragingly 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, would
be from one-ffth to one-fourth better
than it was last year, when it was
none too good, being only four-ffths
as large as it was in each of the two
preceding years. But the promises
of fine weather were not kept, and
the dispatches now presented show
that corn will not be an average crop
anywhere, and in many districts the
FARMERS DO NOT NOW EXPECT
to get more than half of an average
crop, though warm weather even at
this late day would materially reduce
the loss. In the southern part of
the corn and wheat belt the loss is
less severe than in the northern part,
and in the latter the corn is doing
tolerably well on uplands, or where
the ground happens to be we'll drain
ed. In few localities the reports
are quite favorable, but these are the
rare exceptions. The corn crop of
the United States in 1880 was 1885,
535, $40 bushels, which was slight
reduction from the crop Of the pre-
vious year. In 1881 the crop fell to
I.194, 016,000 bushels. A reduction
of one fourth-and the dispatches
Indicate that it may be as serious as
that-would cut it down to about
900,000,000 bushels. But it may not
be so bad as that. In all localities
the corn is very backward, bat In
many of them it is promising very
fairly after all, and with fine weather
will not show q great reduction from
last year. Still the fact remains
that last years crop was large re-
duction from those of the two pre-
vious years, and it is certain that
THIS TEARS CROP
will not come up to that of last year.
The wheat prospects are much more
encouraging, though they are not all
that was hoped for early in the sea-
son. There has been a considerable
reduction in the acreage of wheat in
Iowa and Wisconsin and in some
parts of Minnesota, bat in other
parts of the latter State and in Da-
kota aud Nebraska there have been
large additions to the area, and the
same is true Of some other localities.
In Iowa and Wisconsin what wheat
there is is promising well. In Wis
consin the crop will be larger than it
was last year, but in Iowa it will not
be so large-the gain in one State
being an offset to the loss in the
other. Last year the wheat crop of
Iowa was over 100000 bushels, or
about half what it was in 1880; this
year it will probably be somewhat
less than last year. In Wisconsin
the wheat crop was nearly 100000
bushels last year, small gain over
1880, and this year it may go up
above 100000 bushels.
IN ILLINOIS THE WHEAT CROP
last year was 26,S22, 900 bushels, or
barely one-h half what it was the year
before; this year the indications are
that the crop will exceed that of last
year, and may amount 30,000,000,
but good deal depends on the luck
the farmers have in harvesting, for
the wetness of the ground delays the
work and compels the oracle to be
used instead of the machine in many
cases. Nebraska last year produced
little less than 100000 bushels
of wheat, and this year promises to
go two or three millions above that;
the acreage has increased and the
grain is looking well. The finest re-
ports Of wheat come from Michigan.
The crop in that State two years ago
was 100000 and last year was
only little over 2l,000,O00 bushels;
this year the crop promises to be
nearly or quite equal to that Of 1880.
In Indiana the crop two years ago
was over 3S,000,000 and last year
about 81 100000 bushels. This year
it will exceed the crop of last year
and may reach the figures of two
years ago. In Missouri
CORN IS IN FAIR CONDITION
and will probably yield about what
it did last year; it may yield more.
The wheat is very promising. The
crop last, year, 2O,0OO,O0O bushels,
was about two thirds of the crop of
two years ago, and the crop of this
year may attain the dimensions of
that of 1880. In Minnesota the crop
last year was larger than for that Of
two years ago; this year the crop will
not vary greatly from the $4,000, 900
bushels produced in 1881. Corn in
Illinois last year was not much more