The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-26
MICHIGAN CROP REPORT FOR JAN.
UARY.

from SIS correspondence, representing Gag
townships Five hundred and twenty OF
these returns are from 3S7 townships in the
southern four tiers of counties
The final estimates indicate that in 1882
clover seed yielded slightly less than one
and one-half bushels per acre. Horses,
cattle, sheep and swine are evidently in fine
condition. In answer TO the question, HAS
wheat, during December, suffered injury
from any cause?" COS correspondents answer,
"Yer." The price of all grades OF wheat was
n tritie higher on the lst of January than on
the first OF the previous month.
In the southern four tiers OF counties the
ground was fairly well protected by snow
during most of the month of December but
in the eastern some of the central and some
of the southern counties of these tiers it
was much better protected during the
earlier than during the latter part OF the
month. On the LIST of January the depth
ranged from a hundredth OF an inch to more
than three inches in the eastern. central and
southern counties, and froW four co five
inches in the western counties-Kent, OF
tawa, Allegan and Van Buren,.
Reports have been received of the quaint
ty Of wheat marketed by farmers during the
month of December at $50 elevators and
mills OF these, 245 are in the southern four
the whole number of elevators and mills in
these counties The total number of bush
els reported marketed is ,1i2, $50, of which
1881 bushels were marketed in the first or
southern tier OF counties, 4oO, go bushels in
the second tier 203, 37S bushels in the third
tier 345, $50 bushels in the fourth tier, and
124 OIL bushels in the counties north OF the
southern four tiers. AT thirty-tve elevators
and mills or II per cent of the whole num-
Der from which reports have been received,
there was no wheat marketed during the
month
The total number of bushels reported
marketed in the five months August Decem-
Der, is q, JS5, 337
The quantity of wheat remaining in farm
ers' hands can be approXimated by deduct
ing the amount of wheat used for seed and
the amount marketed from the total prod
uct, plus the amount of old wheat brought
over, n fair allowance being made for the
amount consumed by those supplied direct
ly from farmers bins To approximate the
amount that may yet be offered on the
market, which is perhaps of more import
ance, Ii is necessary TO consider:
l. The quantity of old wheat on hand ut
the time the new crop was ready TO be placed
on the market
. The total quantity of the new crop
3 The quantity required for seed
4. The quantity that will be required dur
ing the year by that portion of the popula-
ton supplied directly from farmers grana-
ries; and
B. The quantity marketed since the new
crop was ready TO be placed on the market
The amount Of old wheat in the State
when the crop of 1882 was ready 10 be placed
on the market was so small as to be of sigh,
consequence in an estimate OF the amount
that will yet come into sight.
The total product of he State as esd
mated in October on the basis of the acreage
ta1 hx-G A q
yield per acre furnished by threshers, was
81 $50 llJ bushels
Correspondents estimates show that the
acreage seeded in 1872 is about 81 per cent.
of the acreage seeded in 1881, or about
1615U0 One and one-half bushels per
seed.
The population June /, 1880, was |, 636, 3335.
If the increase after 1880 was at
the same rate as from 1870 TO 1890
the popoulation on June |, 1852, was
!. i45. OOl In 1874 the population of the
cities In Michigan amounted TO about "A per
cent of the total population of the State,
the proportion being somewhat greater than
in 1870 The population of the villages in
the State, estimated from the best data OBJ
tainable, cannot exceed half the popu-
latiOn of the cities, hence the popula-
ton OF the cities and villages in the State
cannot exceed 10 per cent OF the total pop
ulaUion, leaving 60 pr cent. or 1,U41, coo in
habitants, living outside of cities and vii
lagos, all of whom il is fair to presume, are
supplied directly from the farmers granar
les. Allowing four and one half bushels Us
the supply of each individual for one yeaY-
which is certainly "a low estimate in view of
the great amount of damaged wheat that
will be consumed. and the fact that wheat is
at present about the cheapest OF all artic es
OF foOd-the inhabitants supplied directly
from farmers bins would require i, Ill 800
bushels, which may be taken as the amount
that VIII be consumed but will never come
into sight
The quantity OF wheat reported TO this
department as marketed by farmers since
Aug is G,5S5, $50 bushels, but, as reports
have been received from only about one
half the elevators and mills it iT PERHAPS
fair TO assume that there has been twioe
this amount, or, in round numbers, l3, UOO, :
000 bushels, marketed in the State
To recapitulate:
Bushels Bushels.
Total wheat crop of ISL. 3l,GS9, AS
Amount used for seed. ........ 25l2,00
Amount required to supply
farmers, etc. 4,1ll,5O
Amount marketed since Aug
/, 1852 100000
- %, 223, 500