The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-03
OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT.
The Chicago Farmers Review Gives an Ex-
hanstive Summary OF the West
and Southern Wheat
Growing States

acreage ana proDaOie yield, the drmero'
Review has followed up its usual weekly
summary by a complete review OF the West
eTR and Southern whsatgToWing States, re-
ports having been received from over 8 200
correspondents, covering every wheat pro-
ducing county in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Mime
slta and Dakota, together with q very accu.
rate summary from the Pacific coast region
made by the Associated Press, it is believed,
makes the most complete report ever issued
The review has been Carefully prepared;and
the information is believed to be the most
exhaustive and latest that has yet been OBJ
thiEed, and foreshadows the State and Gov
e1nment reports.
In summing up its detailed reports tins
Review says THE gloomiest views which
have been advanced c)ncerning the winter
wheat outlook for 1885 must now bs &C.
cepied ss the most accurate. The promising
conditions of 1884 have this season besn
completely reversed. The absolute uui-
formlty OF the returns indicate that the out
look for tie soTn wheat this year is the
worst il ten years, and it may now be set
down SIS positive that under the most favor
able conditions the total winter and spring
wheat yield is TO fall considerably under
the short crop OF 1881, when the total prod act
TRs $50, coo 600 bushels With the exception
OF Michigan and Oregon, and Washington
Territory, On the Western slope, the causes
leading TO @ decreased output of winter
wheat are almost identical. 10 Ohio. Indi-
ana, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri
the gcupd was bare of snow during
the severely cold weather a. ths
close of the winter, which was followed
o decreased acreage, owing 10 the low prices
which prevailed for the cop OF 1884 Ia
California the decreased scrtaye was accom-
panied by Eevere dToutb, which has teEd d
to almost ruin the growing crop. Oregon
and Washington Territory were saved by
bounbfGl showers which came in time TO
srve the grain. When the States are con-
tidered IN detail, the situation csn be better
appreciated. DliDois-Flfty-thrs per cent
of the entire wheat crop OF the State has
been TloTed UD, and more Toald have been
plowed, had not the grouni been s0wn TO
clover and grats. a very large proportion
OF the wheat that ia heading out proves 10
be chess, and thers Is no probability that
bread and seed will be made in Southera
Illinois this year. -Four entire counties in
the central and northern tier, have been
pjoWed up, and in eight other counties, the
crop is epoTted as entire failure. Tue
average condition of sll the counties of tue
State does not exceed 46 per cent. Of the
yield OF 1884, based upon the fields not yet.
plowsd up.
Kautas-The same conditions which exist
IN Illinois are to be found in Kansas, with
this exception; that the Hessian q has b sen
st work more largely n .he cpe State saaa
the other. The acreage Of the State no.
plowea under is - per cent. of 1884, and the
average condition OF the plant lie o.
MissOuri-The State presents the sans
conditions spoken OF with reference to Kau-
tas and Illinois. The winter killed fields
having been plowed under, leaves the totsl
scresge remaining 5S per cent Of 1884 and
the average condition is 81 The State will
not produce more An one-third Of its yield
OF last year.
Ohic-The northern tier of counties ara
making better showing than the average
OF the States already given, bat in all the
southern counties tbs plant has been badly
winter killed. The gro wing screage has been
reduced TO 76 per cent. of last year, and the
average condition does not exceed IS per
cent. of 1884
InGisna-In portions of Northern Indiana
there Is promise of an average yield, bat
in the southerB portion of the Stats the out.
look is no more promising than in Oaio and
Illinois. The yield OF the State viii be ab out
10 per cent. OF last year.
TenDessee-The winter wheat prospects in
this State have bsen runniog down steadily
for thirty days, and the latest advices indi-
cate that the Sts'e will net harvest one fourth
of the crop of 1884
Kentucky-In = few counties of Kentucky
the wheat crop promises 10 be fair, but the
IetuIns by counties indicate that the crop
will not exceed 90 per cent OF last year.
California, Oregon aid Washington Terri
iory-The Prolonged droulh in California
has very greatly injured the prospects for the
growing crop in that State and Edwin +
Smith, Secretary of the State Agricultural
Society OF California, has computed that the
yield OF that State, Tor the Assoc iated Press.
st % 000,CC0 b1she!s, while Oregon aud
Washington Territory, uudsr i'm proved c n.
ditioBe, viii turn out Il 200 600 bushels, a 4
aggregate of AZ 2o0O GOO bushels, against the
sggreeste OF 6S. 100000 bushels for the Pasife
coast in 1884 or a shortage of 26 80 1000
bushels for the Pacific coast region.
Michigan-This State is the only one in
winter wheat belt TO day which gives the
promise of an aversee yield. Woiie the
winter wheat in the other States was bare OF
snow. the wheat in Michigan was wsll p-o-
teo.ed and covered, 20 which cause is TO be
ascrihec the present promising condition OF
the crop. Tne State promises tn turn out
fully So per cent. OF an average yield. From
a close compilation. and taking the most
cheerful view of the situation, the winter
.
coed 200 OO0,oGO bushels, and the absolU.e
percentages from the most trustworthy
sources, indicate that the yield will fall
somewhat under than over the figarss given.
Turn ning 10 the spring wheat belt, the ont
look IS altogether more promising. Fall re-
turns from Nebraska show q slightly en-
lsrged acTesgs, compared to last year.
while in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota
the decrease in acreage will be about 10 per
cent, while the condition is about 90 per
cent. The acreage of Dakota is aDsut per
cent. less than last year, and the conditions
fully equal, though the season is from tea to
twelve DAYS later. The probable spring
wheat yield, based upon continuing favor.
able weather, will be 130 000,0O0 bushels.
The total wheat crop of the country there
fore from the present outlook, will be from
800 eco OC0 to $50 000,0 600 bushels, against an
average yield tor the last FIVE years OF i64 :.
COO 600 bushels.
CslIfornia's Estimate OF the Wheat Crop.
SAN FRANcTsoo, Cal, M 3l.-The wheat
crop of California, this on. will be the
smallest for many years. There are two rea.
sons for this.
1. The large yield of last year aud the
low prices received caused great shortage
in the acreage.
p The late suow-grown grain on winter