Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-11-04
Crops.
WEST yIRGINIA's STANDING AS AN
AGRICULTURAL STATE.

/ AThlk y Ii u IA GIA1Es
! A Special dispatch TO the Wheel
/ ing Register says The October re.
port Of the Department Of Agricul-
ture contains the following intelli-
| gence respecting the crops Of West
Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania
Wheat. West MISUNDERSTANDING
yield per acre, 1872 bushels; average
quality, 100 representing high medi-
um grade, 81. Ohio-Average yield
1917; quality, 96 Pennsylvania
Average yield, Is bushels; quality,
%. The total yield will slightly ey-
ceed 100000, 900 bushels, with an aver
age per acre of Is 5.
Rye-West Virginia Average
yield, 1877 bushels; quality, 80 OHIO
Average yield, Is bushels; quail
ty, 50. Pennsylvania - Average
yield, 1873 bushels; quality. l0l. The
yield of rye for the entire country is
14.7 bushels, making a crop of 20,-
100000. The average quality is 81.
oats West Virginia - Average
| yied, 1876 bushels; quality, 50. Ohio
Average yield, Is bushels; quality,
Sc. Observation-Disclosures yield,
IS bushels: quality, 80. The aver
age yield of oats will be higher than
for two previous years, and the total
product will approximate 40O, 100000
bushels.
Bdrley-Ayerage yield, % bush
els; average quality, 1903, the highest
of any State or Territory. Ohio
Average yield, 1913 bushels; quality,
90 Pennsylyania-Average yield,
% 5 bushels; quality, 98. The aver
age for the whole country is 23.5
bushels, making an aggregate OF 49,
600, 900 bushels, of which California,
New York and Wisconsin produce
more than one-half.
C0rn.-The yield per acre cannot
yet be ascertained, but the condition
of the crop is as follows: West Vir-
ginia, 50; Ohio, 81; Pennsylvania, 80.
The condition for the whole country
averages 81, being very high in the
South and comparatively low in the
States of largest production. In IL
linOis with s per cent. decrease of
area, condition is only II; it IS 10 in
Iowa and 81 in Ohio. These States
produced 10 per cent of the crop OF
1870. West Virginia's crop made
little or no improvement during TIE
past month, several counties suffer
ing from too much rain. September
aud October's considerable weather
did all that could be done for corn
in Ohio, and tout of danger is the
report from all parts of the state.
Cutting is in progress, and frost did
not iniure even the latest fields. The
total production will be about $50,
600, 600 bushels, of which New Eng
land grew 5000 ,000, the middle States
s., 100000, the Southern States 340,
600, 900, and those north OF Tenneo-
see and West of Pennsylvania and
West Virginia $50, 900, 600 bushels.
The SOC, 900 900 product predicted
by the corn buyers is myth, Ehich
has been so persistently assumed
that the public may be misled. The
increase in the South, where ten to
fifteen bushels may be considered a
large yield, cannot make good the
reduction in Illinois alone. It is
gratifying to know that the product
is more than four hundred millions
greater than last year, and ample for
a liberal supply for domestic wants
and expectation; a supply never tx.
ceeded, with two exceptions, 1879
and 1880, Notwithstanding later
and more unpropit.ous planting sea
son than has occurred lu many years.
Potatoes. The average condition
of the potato crop is 81, indicating a
yield of about 50 bushels per acre on
an area approaching ?, 900 600 acres.
In West Virginia the condition is
100,l9 points above the average Of
the country. In New York the
average is 10, foreshadowing a short
crop in a State Of large production.
In Maine, s.; Vermont, ST; and less
in other parts of New England. In
Michigan the prospect is very fat
tpring, and throughout the OHIO
Valley, Missouri, and Kansas, and
in the Southern States the condition
is unusually high. In the Northwest
IT, is eounpWhlt rplucpb