Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-06-06
Acceptation of the Gloomiest Views as
the Most Accurate.
Causes that Have Operated to Lessen
the Yield.
Michigan the Only Winter Wheat State
Where There Will be an Average Yield.
A More Promising Outlook in the
Spring Belt.
Estimates of the Crop on the Pacific
Coast.


stage, and winter wheat having APP
preached condition sufficiently near
maturity to approximate the acreage
and probable yield, the Farmers Re.
view has followed up its usual weekly
summary by complete survey of all
the Western and Southern wheat
growing States, Reports having been
received from over three thousand cor
respondents, covering every wheat
producing county in Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota, together
with very accurate and recent sum-
mary from the Pacific coast region,
made by the Associated Press, it is
believed makes the most complete re-
port ever issued. The review has been
carefully prepared and the information
is believed to be the most exhaustive
and latest that has yet been obtained,
and foreshadows the State and Govern.
ment reports.
In summing up its detailed reports,
the Review says; "The gloomiest
views which have been advanced con-
corning the winter wheat outlook for
1885 must now be accepted as the
most accurate. The promising condi-
tons of 1884 having 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 ten years, and it
may be now set down as positive that
under the most favorable conditions
the total winter and spring wheat yield
is to fall considerably under the short
crop of 1881, when the total product
was 3S0,000,000 bushels. With the
exception of Michigan and Oregon and
Washington Territories, on the West
ern slope, the causes leading to de.
creased output 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 colo
dry winds later on. There was alsC
decreased acreage, owing to the low
prices which prevailed for the crop o
1884. In California the decreased
acreage was accompanied by sever,
drouth, which has tended to almos
ruin the growing crop. Oregon an(
Washington Territory were saved BY
the bountiful showers which came il
time to save the grain. When tn,
States are considered in detail tn
situation can be better appreciated.
Illincis-Fifty,three per cent. of tn
/
entire wheat crop of the State has beef
plowed up, and more would have BEEF
plowed had not the ground been sow
to clover and grass. A very large pre-
portion of the wheat that is heading
out proves to be chess, and there is n
probability that bread and SEED will b
made in Southern Illinois this year
-Four entire counties in the central an
southern tier have been plowed up an
, in eight other counties the crop is re
ported as an entire; failure. The aver
age condition of all the counties of tn
State does not exceed 46 per cent. {
:. the yield of 1884, based upon the fielt
not yet plowed up.
: Kansas-The same conditions whic
}, exist in Illinois are to be found i
Kansas, with this exception, that til
Hessian fly has been at work MOI
|, largely in the one State than the othe
The acreage of the State not plowe
: under is 81 per cent. of 1884, and II
. average condition of the plant is So.
d.. Missouri-The State presents tt
. same conditions spoken of with refe
ence to Kansas and Illinois. The wi
4 ter killed ssfelds having been plow(
e under, leaves the total acreage renal
n ing 5S per cent, of 1884, and the ave
o age condition is 80. The State vi
not produce more than one-third of i
q yield last year.
Il Ohio-The northern tier of count
is are making better showing than Il
Il