The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-16


and the condition of the crops for the
two years are as s1ss to SO, in favor of
1884.
The reports from Indiana are little
more promising. In many parts OF
Indiana the frost is not yet out of the
ground. In some portions of the cen
trail section OF the state the ground dur
Ing March was bare of snow, leaving
the wheat exposed to terrible cold and
freezing winds. Yet, for all this, the
wheat ia central Indiana is better than
farther south, though not as good as in
the northern part of the state. In
Marion couaty The wheat acreage is SO
per cent, and the condition to-day about
70 per cent. compared with full aver
age area and condition at the same date
in other years, and not of any particular
year. In Hendricks county, On the
west, the acreage Is 81 per cent, condI-
ton 20 per cent; johnson county, acre
age 80, condition 70; Shelby, acreage so,
condition 20; Hancock, acreage So, con-
dition 20; Hamilton, acreage 50, condi-
ton 20. In Shelby much wheat Will be
plowed up.
In the southern Indiana winter wheat
belt, embracing the counties of Clark,
Scott, Jackson, Lawrence. Monroe, Mar
tin, Orange. Floyd, Herrison, Crawford.
Perry, Spencer, Warrick, Dubois, Pike,
Gibson, Davies. Washington, Sullivan,
Knox, Posey aud Vanderburg, the acre
age of 1885 as compared with 1884 is 90
per cent less. The growing wheat was
badly winter-killed, and will not turn
out over half crop. The product of
these counties in 1884 was in round num-
bers 11,O0O,00O bushels. This year it
Will not exceed at the highest estimate
10000 In the northern counties the
wheat crop promises better now than 1t
did in March, and the prospects are fair
for an average yield.
From Michigan the crop reports are
more encouraging. The present acre
age is only about per cent less than
last year and only about per cent is
WInter-killed and the condition of that
portion which is not winter-killed is
about 80 per cent of the condition. of
last year. Only little over % per cent
of last years crop has been marketed.
Winter wheat in Iowa is practically
confined to the northeastern and south
eastern counties and to the timbered
hooks bordering on bluffy streams. The
acreage has gradually diminished since
1860, and the yield for the state this
year will probably be 100000 to 100000
bushels. Supt. Meek, of the Wabash,
reports the fields along that line in good
condition, and this is supported by a re-
port from WapeIlo county that the crop
has come out from under its heavy snow
blanket ia fine shape, with indications
OF good yield.
The acreage and yield of spring wheat
are also being annually reduced, and in
round numbers this years crop can be
set down at %, 100000 bushels, of which
100000 bushels will be consumed at
home. The sowing season mas been an
suspicious one, and many hillsides are
quite green with the new crop.
Sixteen Of the largest wheat growing
counties of Ohio have reported and in
ten of that number, although the aver
age acreage is some smaller than last
year, the wheat crop was never more
f1attery. The remaining six report that
the average crop will be from 10 to Il
per cent less than last year.
In Kansas on the account of the Ions
and unusually severe winter, the re
ports gathered by the state board of sg
Tlculturs show the apprehensions of {
shortage to have been we'll grounded.
The weld last year was unprece
dentedly large approaching AZ,
100000 bushels and Its con
dItion at this season was very favor
able. The secretary declines to make
public his estimate to-day, but intimate:
that the yield will be less than a week
ago, when he claimed there would be &
falling off of % per cent. Other estl
mates which are deemed fairly reliable
place this years yield at between $4,000,
600 and 10 200, 600 bushels, and the yield
as compared with yields for the last five
years, at % per cent below the average
The condition of wheat now is bad, anC
the estimate must be still further re
duced unless the weather from now Il
harvest Is very favorable. In some por
tons of the stste considerable winter
wheat was killed, and the Hessian fly
did considerable damage last fall. TIT
unfavorable reports come from all por-
tons of the state where wheat is grown
no single locality being particularly at
fected. The only county which report
wheat in as good condition as usual i
Finny in the southwestern part of tn,
state, and the acreage is about the sam
as last year. In Lyon county the acreag
is smaller and in the heavy soil wheat /
remarkably good.
The acreage of winter wheat pIante,
in Missouri is estimated on returns frou
nearly every county in the state at fror
80 to IS per cent as compared with las
year. The condition of the wheat Gro
is now estimated varIOusly at from so t
so per cent, averaging probably 60 pc
cent. The state board of agricultur
estimates it st so per cent, but reliabl
returns from the farmers themselves il
dictate not more than 60 per cent of La
years yield. Early sown wheat is sal
to look much better than that which VI,
soWn late.
In Nebraska the wheat is, on II
whole, in q fair condition. There Is I
occasion to plow up the cro-. and If Il
weather continues favorable there wi
: be q fair yield. There was little whit
? wheat sown in the northern part of q
state, but the weather has been We
favorable for spring sowing.
a In Arkansas the acreage is about
8 per cent over that of last year, of viii
: about 10 per cant has been winter kill.
: The prospects for a good harvest &
IS very dsttering, and this years Yield "
f. probably be greater than thet of i
: = year.
IS From the present status of the VIII
q crop tor this year It is estimated that
II reduction Of yield on the basis of /
= wears crop win be nearly 4O.OOO.t
a bushels on account of reduced acre.
and 60,00O. goo from winter killing. 7