Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-01
the WHEAT CROP.
A Complete Statement Of the ccsp
Over the Country.
NOT A BRIGHT OUTLOOK PRESENTED.
The Total Crop win Be One Hundred
Million Bushels Less Than the Aver
age Of the Past Five Years.
eLEANlNes FROM MANY srArea

CHICAGO, May Sl.-The growing vAsas
crop having reached q critical stage and
winter wheat having approached coadi-
ton sufficiently near maturity to approxi.
mate acreage and the probable yield. Tie
Farmers Review has followed 1p il usual
weekly summary BY . complete survsy q
all the western and southern wheat growing
States. Reports having been received iron
over 5000 correspondents covering svay
wheat producing county 10 Ohio, MichigaaA
Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky. Tsnnerss.
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, lowe, Wiscoa-
sin, Minnesota and Dskota together With .
very accurate summary from the Pacific
Coast region, made BY the Associated Pre-
il is believed, makes the most complete ~
port ever issued.
The Review says:
The Gloomisst Views
which have been advanced concerning The
winter wheat outlook for 1885, must now
be accepted as the most accurate. The
promising conditions of 1884 have this sea-
son been completely reversed The abso-
lutte uniformity Of the returns indi,,ate that
the outlook for the winter sowu wheat this
year is the worst in ten years, and ii may
be now set down a. positive that under tho
most favorable conditions the total winter
and spring wheat yield 10 to fall coosidsra-
bly, under the short crop Of 1891. when tho
total product was 3S0,000.000 bushels.
With the exception Of Michigan and
Oregon and Washington Territories
Oh the western slope, the causes leading r'
decreased output Of winter wheat Or,
almost Identical In Ohio, Indiana, Illf
nois, Kansas and Missouri. the ground VA
bare OF snow during the severely cold weath'
er at the close OF the winter. which was fcl-
lowed by cold dry winds later on. There.
was also decreased acreage owing TO the
low prices which prevailed for the crop Of
1884. In California the decreased acreage
was accompanied by severe drouth which
has tended to almost ruin the growing crop.
Oregon and Washington Territory wers
saved by showers which camc in time to-
save the grain. When the States are coz,
sidered in detail the situation can bettst b.
appreciated. ~
In Illinois 50 per cent of the entire vhsj
crop Of the State has been plowed up anG.
more would have been planted had not the
ground been sown TO clover and graa. A
very large proportion Of the wheat that q
heading out proves to be chess, and there 10
no probability tha, bread and ssed will b
made in Southern Illinois this year Four
entire counties in the central and southsrn
tier have been plowed up, and In eight Other
counties the crop Is reported ~ an entire
failure. The average condition Of al he
counties OF the State does not exceed 46
per cent OF the yield Of 1884 based upon the
fields not yet plowed up.
Kansas.
The same condition which exists In Illi.
nois, are to be found in Kansas with this
exception, that the Hessian fy has been at
work more largely in the one State than the
other. The acreage ofthe State not plowed
under, ia 81 per cent Of 1884, and the
average condition Of the plant 10 So.
Missouri.
The State presents the same conditions
spoken OF with reference 10 Kansas ss1 :
illinois. The winter killed fields having
been plowed under. leaves the total average
remaining So per cent Of 1884, and the
average condition Is 81.
Ohio.
The northern tier Of counties are making
q better showing than the average Of the
States already given, bat ia All the southesn
counties the plaut has been badly wiutse
Il he h.
duced TO 70 per cent Of last year. snd the
average condition does not exceed 6S pr
cent OF 1884.
Indiana.
In parts Of Northern Indiana there Il Q
promise OF an average yield, but IN tho
south ern portion Of the State the outlook b
no more promising than in Ohio and 1lIi
nois. The yield Of The State will be sbost
IS per cent OF last year.
Tennessee.
The winter wheat prospects In this STATE
have been running down steadily fos thirty
DAYS, and the latest advices indicate THAI
the State will not harvest one fouith otths
crop OF 1884.
Kentucky.
Tn few counties of Kentucky Tho vbsas
crop promises 70 be fair but the returns b
counties Indicate that the crops will pot sx,
coed so per cen, Of last year.
California, Oregon and wa.Ai.xs.. f.v,s.
tsry.
II. pro,r.c,.d drought In Calf -.,,t.s
yer, oresilv injured he proaIlE,s.,
growing crop In that 6Gs m~
Smith, secretary Of the zsrit
society OF IaiHsfs sss ssasfS~-S
the yield 81 that State fos the Associae
Press at 25,0Oo,o0O ousbeh, .hiIe oregoe
and Washington Territory. under impeovee
conditions, viii turn oot ]. zoo, 900 bsshs!A.
an aggregate OF 42.2oo.OOo. eSsinn -
aggregate Of es 100 900 iosies Isei6o oos:t
in lssi; or shortage OF ls,sVO.VV ossess
Tor the Pacibc coast reg1oos