Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-05-11
The WHEAT CROP
OFFICIAL CROP REPORT.
Special Dispatch 10 tbs Bks.

ly lower In New York.. Michigan,
Ohio and Illinois. Further injury
was wrought by frosts early In April,
and in more northern districts real
damage by March freezing was more
fully disclosed as tho covering OF
snow and ice disappeared. The aver.
age Is " per cent. tor New York,
Michigan, 83 per cent. Ohio, 62 per
cent; Illinois, 66 per cent. Further
loss is suffered by blowing up Of large
areas In Ohio ard Illinois. A reduc-
tion in Missouri from 83 to 80 per
per cent. Is also reported. In Indiana
the average Is 70 per cent, and New
Jersey reports 101 per cent,
both the same as In April. All the
northern states have shown
since the April reports.
% well as the Pacific coast and nearly
all the southern states. These aver.
ages are: Connecticut 96, Pennsyl-
vsnia 95, Delaware So, Maryland SO,
Virginia 81, North Carolina SO, South
Carolina SO, Georgia 81, Alabama SO,
Mississippi o2, Texas 81, Arkansas
sc, Tennessee S8, West Virginia 80,
81, Kansas 81, California
n, Oregon ~. This is an improve
ment of 15 points In California and II
In Oregon. The average condition of
winter wheat is 83a against 80 In
April. The loss In area from re.
planting In other crops may be az.
sumed to reduce the prospect to that
of April 1st, In 1879 and 1880.
The general average was 80 In
1881; 1t was SO In 1882 and 102 In
May last year. In former years there
were no May returns. Two years
ago the average declined to 80 In July.
Last year 1t increased to 104 at the
time Of cutting 1t. 1t should be un-
derstood that in the department re-
ports of condition 100 means the
growth with full stand and
healthy plant. Ohio and Illinois state
reports compare with last years crop
thus: Ohio reports 56 for May com.
pared with last year, and 62 compared
with the average crop; spring wheat
W II not he complete till May 10 and
will be reported June 1st. The
agent fer Dskota makes
probable increase of 80 per cent. The
agent for Minnesota reported 8S per
cent of last years area already planted.
An Increase OF Is PER cent Is reported
In Washington territory. 1t is not
probable that the increase In spring
wheat area will more than make good
the loss of winter wheat acreage.
Without regsrd to spring wheat
breadth, the present prospect for
winter wheat, In confederation Of the
reduced condition and acreage, is 20
per cent lees than In May last, repre-
sentipg a loss of about 1900, COO
bushels.
A dispatch from the London stats.
tical agent, under date of April %,
reports an Improvement In European
wheat prospects during last month.
The severity of March was followed
by three weeks of dry weather, which
was followed by one week OF invigor.
ating rain. The season II still back.
ward and higher temperature Is
needed. The small area OF spring
sown wheat In England Is thin aud
much of 1t will be displaced by bar
ley In France and Germany
rain L. needed and higher tenn.
perature necessary. With reduced
acreage In western Europe and some
injury from freezing In March, a re.
duced crop appears inevitable. In
Aus; ria aud Hdngsria the prospect is
favorable for at least a medium crop.
Returns Of the progress of cotton
planting show the work I, later than
usual in every state and indicate that
oc May 1as "a per cent. of the pro-
p0sed area wss planted, when the
usual proportion is said TO be 81 psr
cent. In Virginia and North Caro-.
lima It WAS very late. The per cent.
ages planted were: Virgisia 10,
North CaFolins 80, Sonth Carolina 70,
Georgia %. Florida 96, Alabama 83,
Mississippi 80, Louisiana 81, Texas
70, Arkausls ~, Tennessee 81.
OTHER REPORTS.
MILWAUKEE, Msy los. w. Tall.
madge, of the chamber cf commerce,
to-day obtained the following infor-
nation relative to the condition of
the wheat crops: II. FL. Young,
secretary of the Minnesota state board
of agriculture says: "The crop 10 all
backward, even that down earliest,
and taking the area and condition to-
gether we have no right to expect
more than sc per cent of good acre
age crop. l estimate the crop OF the
state at about twenty-three million
five hundred Thousand Bushels "
Alex, Heron, secretary Of the lndt'
ana state board, under date Of May ..
says: II have bur llt'le change TO re
port in the rrcBpect for the wheat
crop in Indiana. Tho impYovf mant
1, not 80 much os estimared in the
April report, and we placs the tzureS
q shade lower as to condition, In
the southwestern part of the state
com. good wheat Is reported, but on
the whole it Is very disropragne.
The Benson Is az least ten days late. "
Tallm adga has mads n nav s.imste
of the crop on tho year 1888, giving
tho f llowlrg totals by states: Onio,
26 000, eco bushels; Miah'gon, %
COO 900; Indisns, 30,O0C. 600; Illinois,
"a coo 600; Wisconsin, IL 600 OOO;
Minnesota, 20, 600, ,OOOi Iowa, 22,OO0,
600; Missouri, 20 100000; Karsss,
%, 900, 600; Nebraska, Il, 900, 900;
California, $4,000, ,000; Oregon, 49,
600, ,0O0; Pennsylvania, % 900, 600;
New York, $4,000, 900; other states
and territories, 90, 900, 900, making q
total of 403, 900, ,OOO bushels, against
603 900, 900 bushels, last years pro-
duction.