The Dickinson press., 1884-06-28
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The Acreage Of Spring Wheat in Wiscon.
sin Greatly Deoreased-whsat and AI1
Other Crops Doing Well in Minnesota
Dry Weather Complained Of In Come Lo-
caltties.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, June 49,
Advices to the department of agriculture from
Wisconsin say the effect of the constant and in
creasing tendency toward dairy n stock
farming in the state has been to decrease the
acreage of spring wheat. AS compared with
last year the decrease is about 10 per cent
The condition of the wheat is excellent. FIRE.
quent rains and growing weather are giving it
a strong root and spreading it finely. There
has been a noticeable increase in the area of
clover the present year, and the condition is
above the average. In Minnesota the
report says at least one-third of
the land devoted to wheat
last fall, and nearly all of that in the prairie
counties, has been resplowed and seeded in 9th
er grain, while in the strictly wooded districts
the grain is generally in excellent condition.
The weather during three-quar ers of the past
month was cold, but especially favorable for
cereal crops, and these have grown remarkably
fast Meadow pastures and corn, however,
have been retarded somewhat until within the
closing quarter, when higher temperature pre-
vailed and they are now coming on rapidly.
From Iowa the reports are very promising, es-
peclally in relation to spring wheat, oats and
corn, and in fact all crops average well, mead
ows, pastures and fruits being very %satisfac-
tory. Corn planting was several days earlier
than last year. The ground is in fine condi-
ton, and there is very little difference in the
low and uplands, andthe stand is good. Nine
tenths OF the seed was raised IN Iowa, and with
ninety days of average weather Iowa will have
one of the best crops over raised in that state.
JyrREASE or cpRJNc wuEAr ADrA
The need of ready money in new countries
for farm improvements has its legitimate eff
feet with the multitude of settlers going into
Dakota, and the increase of wheat area is ap-
parently 40 per cent, or 100000 acres. Alto
gether the increase of spring wheat area is
really $780, 600 aeres: This makes the aggregate
breath in wheat, winter and spring, about3S,-
100000 acres, with a yield of thirteen bushels
per acre, which may be expected if favorable
prospects continue. The harvest will count.
The small amount of winter wheatin the spring
wheat belt was greatly injured in the northern
pecially in Minnesota. In Nebraska the winter
wheat is doing unusually we'll. The condition
of spring wheat is high, averaging 101 1t is
not less than 1D in any of the principal
spring wheat states, and only falls to IS
in Montana, 9S in Vermont, and IS in
Maine. There is no country where q decrease
of acreage is reported, though y number of the
old counties in South Dakota show no increase
1t is reported from Montana that since spring
there has been no examination until within the
past week. Grass is therefore not up to the
average by 10 per cent. Notwithstanding there
has been a great number of new farms opened
in Montana this spring, the total acreage Of
spring wheat, oats and barley is but little more
than that cultivated last year. The cause O.
this is the low prices to which grain went las
fall and winter, which was occasioned by
the competition brought on by the completion
of the Northern Pacific railroad. The DrOSpec
of tho continued low prices has had tho cffec-
to cause farmers to sow only part of their fields
such acreage as they could cultivate withou
hiring laborers.