The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-06-04

THE YEATS YIELD A FAILURE


wheat crop having reached q critical
stage, and winter wheat having APP
preached condition sufficiently nsar
maturity to approximate the acreage
and the probable yield, tho Farmers
Review has followed up its usual
weekly summary by complete survey
OF ali the western and southern wheat
growing statos, reports having been re-
ceived from over 5000 correspondents,
covering every wheat-producing county
In Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Min.
nesota and Dakota, together with very
accurate and recent summary from the
Pacific coast region made by the Asso-
ciat6d Press, IL Ia believed, makes the
most complete report ever Issued. The
review has been carefully prepared, and
the information IN believed to DO most
exhaustive, and tho latest that has yet
been obtained and foreshadows tho state
and government reports. In summing
up its d stalled reports, the Review says:
The gloomiest views which have been
advanced concerning the winter wheat
outlook for 1885, must now be accepted
rs the most accurate. The promising
conditions OF 1854 have, this season, been
completely reversed. The absolute uni
formity of the returns Indicate that the
outlook for the winter sown wheat this
year is the worst in 10 years, and II may
be now set down az positive that under
the most favorable conditions the total
winter and spring wheat yield Is to fall
considerable under the short crop
of 1881, when the total pro-
duct was 380,O0o,00 bushels. With
the exception of Michigan and
Oregon anu Washington territories on
the western slope, the causes leading 10
a decreased out put of winter wheat are
almost identical. In Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Kansas and Missouri the
ground was bare OF snow during the
severely cold weather At the close of
the winter, which was followed by cold
dry winds later on. There was also Il de-
creased acreage, owing to the low prices
which prevailed tor the crop OF 1881.
In CALIFORNIA, the decreased acreage
was accompanied by q severe drouth,
! which has tended to ALMOST ruin the
growing crop. Oregon and Washington
territory were saved by bountiful show.
ers, which came in time to save the
grain. When the statos are considered
In detail, the situation can DO better APP
preCiated.
Illinois-Fifty-tbree per cont. Of the
entire wheat crop OF the state has been
plowed up, ard more would have
boon plOwed, had not the grounds
been sown 20 clover and grass.
A very large proportion of tho wheat
that IS heading ont proves to ne
"cheese," and there Is no probability
that bread and seed will be made in
| Southern Illiuois this year. -Four entire
| counties in the central and southern
tier nave been plowed up, and in eight
other counties the crop is reported as an
entire failure. The average condition
OF all the counties of the State does not
exceed 46 per cent of the yield OF 1854,
based upon the fields not yet plowed
|up.
! Kansas-The same conditions which
exist in Illinois are to be found in Kan
sas, with this exception: That the
Hessisn fly has been at work more
largely in the one state than in the
other. The acreage OF the state not
plowed under is so per cent. of 1854, and
the average condition of the plant is SO.
Missouri-The state presents the same
Kansas and Illinois. The winter-killed
| fields having been plowed under, leaves
the total acreage remaining 5S per cont.
| of 1884, and the average condition Is 81.
| The state will not produce more than
one-third of it's yield of last year.
Ohio-The northern tier of counties
are making a better showing than tine
average of the state already given, but
| in all the southern counties the plant
has been badly winter-killed. The
growing acreage has been reduced to rs
per cent, of last year, and the average
conditian does not exceed % per cent OF
1884.
Indiana-In portions of northern In
diana there is a promise of an average
yield, but in the southern portion Of the
state the outlook is no more promising
than in Ohio and Illinois. The yield OF
the state will be about 40 per cent. OF
last year.
Tennessee The winter wheat
prospects in this state have
been running down steadily for
SO days, and the latest adyices indicate
that the state will not harvest one
fourth of the crop OF 1884.
| Kentucky-In few equities Of Ken
lucky the wheat crop promises to be
fair, but the returns by counties indi-
cate that the crop will not exceed 30 per
cent. of last year.
California, Oregon and Washington
Territory--The prolonged drouth in
California has very greatly injured the
prospects for the growing crops in that
state, and L f. Smith, secretary of the
state agricultural society of California,
has computed the yield of that state for
the Associated press at 100000 bush
els, while Oregon and Washington Ter
rit0ry, under their improved condition,
will turn out 100000 bushels, an aggre-
gate Of 42,20O,000, against the aggregate
| Of 6S, 100000 Tor the Pacific coast in 1881,
or shortage of 26,500000 bushels Tor the
Pacific coast region.
Michigan-This state is the only one
in the winter wheat belt to-day, which
gives the promise OF an average yield.
While the winter wheat in the other
states was bare OF snow, the wheat IN
| Michigan was well protected and COW
cred, to which cause is to be ascribed
the present promising condition of the
crop. Tae state promises to turn out
| fully SO per cent. of an average yield.
From ia close compilation. and taking
the most cheerful view Of the situation,
the winter wheat yield for the present
year will not exceed 20O,00O,OOO bushels
and the absolute percentages from the
most trustworthy sources indicate that
the yield will fall somewhat under than
ov Or the figures given.
Turning to the spring wheat belt. the
outlook is altogether more promising.
The returns from Nebraska show a
slightly enlarged acreage as compared
with last year, while in Iowa, Wiscon-
| sin and Minnesota the decrease in acre.
age will be about 10 per cent, while the
condition is about 95 per cent.
The acreage of Dakota is about s
per cent. less than 1884 and the condi-
lions fully equal, though the season is
from 10 to IL days later.
The probable spring wheat yield, based
upon continuing favorable weather,will
be 130,OOO,OOO bushels. The total wheat
crop Of the country, therefore, from the Inc
present outlook, will be from 9A,OOO,OOO
to O,OOO, 900 bushels, against an average
yield for the last five years of 46f,OOO,O0O
| bushels.
Lunatic on n Train.
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