The Iola register., 1885-10-30
AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

The Department Report for October Slmi-
lar 60 the Previous Month's R.porr.
WARRINGTON, October 21.-Colonel J.
r Dodge, Statistician Of the Department ol
Agriculture, has made his October repor,
showing the returns of the department cor
respondents throughout the country As to
the condition and yield of wheat, corn. cot
ton, potatoes, buckwheat and tobacco. Con.
cerning wheat and corn Colonel Dodge says:
1.-THE indications arc essentially tho sams
~ those Of last month, pointing to abo0i
three hundred and fifty millions. possibly q
I, trifle more, tho exact figures of the final
record of estimates depending ON the IRE
else ascertainnlent Of the area harvested. q
point of greater difficulty to determine this
year than in almost any previous year. The
final record, after the verificatiOn Of areas
and tests Of results harmonic, will not
probably differ materially from former indi-
cations, which have range of only 2,0O0,- :
600 bushels in the fluctuations OF condition
from June to October, or third of one per
cent The
WINTER WHEAT DECLINE
in April and May, from . loss of resown
area, unfavorable, and clearer realization
of the extent of the real injury, was So, ,OOO,.
600 bushels. The results of June and July
were favorable, and in several States the
outcome was considerably larger than was
expected Oh juno 1, notably in Michigan
and Texas, the outcome being at the rate
of twenty bushels per acre in the former
State, larger yield than has been pre-
viously reported. There are some heavy
yields in New England. Some fields in
Caledonia County, Vermont, have produced
fifty bushels per acre, it the estimate Of our
correspondent is correct The reports from
the middle States of the results of thrashing
show in many cases better product than
the appearance OF the grain indicated.
The central wheat belt suffered
most of all. Virginia. West Virginia,
Kentucky and Tennessee averaged
only about FIVE bushels per acre, when
the normal yield is more than twice as
much. Missouri and belt of one degree of
latitude north of the Ohio is nearly as bad
as that south of the Ohio. The corn crop
is made, with very little injury from frost
and with yield slightly above an average.
The general average sialpHditiOn is the
same as last month, 93eosu1e not attained
since 1879. Tie yield p6k acfe will be re-
turned next month, but present indications
point to fully 261S bushels per acre through
out the country. Nebraska stands highest.
Only Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas. Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Arkansas and the
Pacific coast fall below 80. The amount of
small corn will be small. The
DAMAGE BY GRAssHOPPERs
is mainly in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa
and Kansas. They were probably CalOp-
tenus femur-rubrum and T. bivttatus. The
State agents of Missouri return the follow.
ing notes: Early September was marked
by drought over large area of this State
that was broken about the middle of the
month. Tie hardened condition of the
soil and continuous rains caused wheat to
be planted late this fall. That sOwn i'm the
middle of September is now up and looking
very fine. The month has been one of
about even temperature and unmarked by
frOsts. thus favorable for corn. With
drought at one end of the State, too
much wet in the central part and grasshop-
pers in the northern, the crop has been
kept below the average.