Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-05-17
Thevotc for Regents of the University was
The Condition Of Michigan Crops o.l
May L.

The Secretary of State, in his latest crop re-
port, says: For this report returns have been
received from S72 correspondents, representing
665 townships. Five hundred and ffty-six of
these returns are from 3Sl townships in the
southern four tiers of counties.
The month of April, like the month of April,
1884, was cold and dry, and vegetation made
but little growth. AtLansing the average tenn
perature was 46 degrees Fahrenheit, as COM
pared with IS degrees Fahrenheit In 1882. The
highest temperature In April was IS degrees,
the lowest IL degrees. The figures for last
year were IS and 10 respectively. The average
temperature for the first nine days OF May was
about one degree higher this year than last,
and the average lowest night temperature for
the same time was five degrees higher this year
than last. The rain fall in April, last year and
this, was nearly the same, about one and nine
days of May amounted to nearly three and one
half inches, as compared with less than half an
inch In 1882.
The wheat winter killed in the southern four
tiers of counties is estimated at twenty per cent,
or one-ffth of the acreage seeded This is five
per cent. more than winter-killed as estimated
on the first OF April, and twice the amount kill
ed In the winter l1SS1-2 The condition of
the wheat not winter-killed in these counties is
seventy-nine per cent. OF condition one year
ago. In the counties north of the southern
four tiers fifteen per cent. OF the acreage seeded
is winter-killed, and the condition of that por
ton not killed is ninety per cent. of condition
May l, 1889. These figures indicate yield Of
from seven to ten million bushels less than the
crop OF 1SS
The Ohio official report for May contains the
following percentages, compared with same
date last year, for other states, Ohio, SO; Indi-
ana, 20; Kansas, 90; California, 81; Illinois
april estimate), is; Kentucky april esti-
mate), 66.
Reports have been received of the quantity
of wheat marketed by farmers during the month
OF April at 245 elevators and mills. OF these
200 are in the southern four tiers of counties,
which Is little less than one-half Of the whole
number of elevators and mills I'm these coun-
ties. The total number OF bushels reported
marketed is 436,347, of which *, 405 bushels
were marketed In the first or southern tier Of
counties; ia 023 bushels In the second tier, So
352 bushels in the third tier; Ss,624 bushels in
the fourth tier, and q, $50 bushels m the coun-
ties north of the southern four tiers At thirty
eight elevators and mills, or sixteen per cent OF
the whole number from which reports have
been received, there was no wheat marketed
during the month.
The total number of bushels reported, mark
eted in the nine months, August-April, is H.
763, AT.
About seven per cent of the clover acreage
has been winter-killed. That portion not win
TERRIFIED Is In good condition. With fair wealth
or until haying the clover crop will doubtless
be good one.
Horses, cattle, sheep, and swine are In
below an average perhaps.
In answer to the question, "Has there been
more than the usual mortality among breeding
eSesp sixty-onc correspondents answer yes,
and 730 no; TO the same question as regards
lambs, Iva answer yes and $50 no, and to the