Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-28
THE CROP CONDITION.
The Statistican of the Department of Agri.
culture Speaks ConceI ming the Condition
of Crops in the United States.

The StattSt1can OF the DEPARTMENT. OF A gri
culture Speaks ConceI ming the Condiris,
of Crops in the United States.
A dispatch from Washington, D. C
says: Colonel ]. R. Dodge, statisticia1
of the department of agriculture, in hi
report for November, showing the aver
age yield of cotton, corn, potatoes, buck
wheat, sorghum, tobacco and hay, Gays
"The present crop of corn is the frs
that is full average in rate of yield
since that of 1880, which was the last o.
series of six full crops, averaging TWEEN
ty six to twenty-eight bushels per acre
The present crop, grown on an area be-
tween 70 100000 and 100000 acres, il
the largest in absolute quantity, though
not the largest IN rate of yield, evel
made in this country. The highest rate
of yield is 364 bushels, in Nebraska and
Ohio. The three corn growing states
which produce four-tenths of the entire
crop, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, each
average several bushels per acre less
than in the census year; Illinois, 81
Iowa, 80; Missouri, 80. Utah averages
SO; Massachusetts, Connecticut and Colo.
RADIO, So; New Hampshire and Rhode
Island, "a; Michigan, 33; Wisconsin, 81
Kansas, 81. The southern states make
an average yield. The quality of corn
is very good in the east and south
medium in the central parts of the west
and somewhat deprecated on the north.
ern border from Michigan to Dakota.
"The potato crop is smaller than tina.
of 1884, in consequence of injury from
rot, especially on land which either
from situation, want Of drainage, of char.
acter of the soil, is i'll adapted to with
stand the effects Of successive rainfalls
A number of correspondents note the
fact that on light sanoy soils the pota-
toes are sound, though rotting badly on
other land in the same districts.
"The buckwhest crop will be large, the
average yield exceeding fourteen bushels
per acre, notwithstanding the fact that
in number of the western and north
western states this grain has suffered
considerably from the August and Sep
TENDER frosts. In number of counties
in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota
the injury is very serious, amounting in
some cases to the practical destruction
of the crop. Damage is also reported
from several counties in Ohio and In
diana. In Phillips county, Kansas, the
yield is reported poor because of frost;
in Hand county, Dakota, the crop is re-
ported ruined by frost on August 7, and
injury is also reported from other parts
of this territory.
"The tobacco yield is generally an
average one. The Connecticut valley
yields exceed 400 pounds per acre;
New York averages ,250; Pennsylvania,
l 200. The heavy tobacco of the middle
belt always makes a much lower average
than the cigar varieties. The Ken; lucky
average is 100; Virginia 655; Maryland
765.
"In parts of Tennessee, Kentucky,
West Virginia and some other states the
yield of sorghum has been reduced by
drought, but the injury from this cause
has in some cases been Offset by ar i'm
provement in the quality of the juice. In
some countiesin Illinois, Wisconsin. and
Iowa injury has been sustained from an
excess of rain, while in other parts of the
including number of conn
ties in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and
Dakota, the crop has been injured by
early froste. A correspondent in Ottawa
county, Kan, states that there will not
be more than halt crop there owing to
fIost.
"The reported yield of hay per acre
averages II tons, and indicates q crop. of
over Al, 100000 tons, nearly as large as
hat oflast year. In number of locali-
les the yield is reported as more or less
shortened by drought in spring or early
summer. The places from xhich such re-
ports are received include portions of
New England, New Jersey, and Penn
'ylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky,
illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and Ne
oraska. The correspondent in Madison,
county, Mo-, says the crop was Injured
10Th in yield and quality by dry wealth
n in May and June.
The cotton returns of November are
ocal estimates of yield per acre. They
are somewhat higher than those of the
asst two years, but materially lower than
hose of 1880 and 1882. The increase
'ver tie yield of last year is most
marked in Texas and Georgia In
Arkansas and Tennessee, where the
Iverage yield is usually high, the rate is |
depressed by the unfavorable conditions
# August and September. The rate of
'ield by states is as follows: Virginia,
So pounds per acre; North Carolina, 157;
outh Carolina, l42; Georgia, $50; Florida,
06; Alabama, 145; Mississippi, 265; Louis |
ana, 223; Texas, 1872; Arkansas, 200; Ten