Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-23
The July Crop Report

For the July crop report the secretary Of
state has received returns from $50 cores
pondents, representing G22 townships.
Five hundred and twenty of these
returns are from $40 townships in the
southern four tiers of counties. The area
of the 1SS6 wheat crop, as returned by
supervisors in the southern four tiers of
counties, is l,357,57S acres, and in the
northern counties 243 2O6 acres; total of
1,600,1S4 acres. Final corrections and
spring wheat sowings, which were not
completed at the time the assessment was
taken, will probably add $4,000 acres, max
ing the total area of the 1Ss6 wheat harvest
l,625, 14 acres. The average per acre as
estimated by supervisors is thirteen and
sixty-eight hundredths bushels, indicating
q probable yield in the state of - 2396S
bushels. Wheat has evidently been very
badly injured by the Hessian fly. The
presence of she fly is reported by ninety.
seven correspondents in the first or south
tier of counties; by sixty-nine correspond
ents in the second tier; forty-four in the
third and twenty-five in the fourth tier
The county returns of supervisors, par
TALLY corrected, show the area of wheat
harvested in 1855 TO have been
1,491410 acres and the yield
%, 927, 5i3 bushels Final correction will
increase this area by at least $4,000 acres
and yield by 100000 bushels making the
totals about l,532 40 acres and 30G21, 5i3
bushels. The total number of bushels Of
wheat reported marketed in June Is 49,
616 the number of bushels in eleven
months from August TO June, li0H, COB, or
about forty-slx per cent. of the crop OF
1885. The number OF bushels reported
marketed in the same months of 1851 , was
e,46S,5l3, or thirty-three per cent Of the
crop of 1854 For these months in 1881 >,
reports were received from about thirty
seven per cent. and in lSSj6 from about
forty-eight ser cent Of the elevators and
mills in the southern four tiers of coun-
ties. About >, 132 900 bu. of the lSSj wheat
crop is yet in the farmers hands. The
condition OF other crops compared with
the vitality and growth OF an average
year is for the state as follows Corn
ninety-two per cent; oats, eighty-fiye:
barley, eighty eight; clover, meadows and
pastures, seyenty-four: clover sOwed this
year, eighty-one per cent. The condition
of corn compared with July l. lsS5 is ll3.
Seven per cent of corn planted failed 10
grow; apples in the southern four tier OF
counties promise ninety-tour per cent, and
in the northern counties eighty-slX per
cent. of an average crop.
The weather is extremely dry. Com
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the state. At Lansing the rain fall during
June amounted TO only two and fourteen
hundredths inches a. compared with four
and thrty-seven hundredths inches, aver
age for twenty years, as recorded at the
state agricultural college. No rain has
fallen IN July 10 date, and of course
meadows and pastures are drying up and
the oat crop Is injured.
Ottawa county's berry crop is all right,
but corn and potatoes have suffered. The
outlook for potatoes, oats and corn in
Macomb county is not promising. The
same may said OF Lapeer Oakland, Kent,
Washtcnaw and Eaton counties. Wheat
and potatoes are in bad shape in Muskegon
county. In Van Buren, county oats will
yield about two-thrds Of an average crop,
while grapes and other fruits are burning
up. st. Joseph county's fruit crop Will be
about half the usual yield; wheat and oats
are badly damaged and the mint crop is
damaged fifty per cent. Oats and potatoes
are the principal sufferers in Allegan
county, and berries have been affected
Oats and small fruits are damaged in
Clinton county. Corn is seriously affected
in Lenawee county and oats are short in
Branch county.