Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-07-15
MICHIGAN MATTERS.
Affected by TIE Drought.


For the July crop report the secretary OF
state has received returns from $50 CORES
pondents, representing 622 townships.
Five hundred and twenty-seven of these
returns are from $40 townships In the
southern four tiers of counties. The area
OF the 1886 wheat crop, as returned by
supervisors In the southern four tiers OF
counties, is l,957,57s acres, and in the
northern counties 243, 200 acres; total OF
LOCO, 7s4 acres. Final corrections and
spring wheat sowings, which were not
completed at the time the assessment was
taken, will probably add 5000 acres, max
ing the total area OF the 1880 wheat harvest
1881 acres. The average per acre as
estimated by supervisors Is thirteen and
sixty eight hundredths bushels, indicating
q probable yield In the state OF 2223s,6s6
bushels. Wheat has evidently been very
badly injured by the Hessian ny. The
presence Of the fly Is reported by ninety.
.even 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 1885 TO have been
i,497,47O acres and the yield
29,9e7, $40 bushels. Final corrections will
increase this area by at least IS, 600 acres
and yield by 100000 bushels, making the
totals about l,52, 40 acres and S;621, 5iS
bushels. The total number of bushels OF
wheat reported marketed In June Is 49,
116; the number of bushels in eleven
months from August 20 June, IA, Oh, Sa, or
about forty-six per cent. OF the crop or
1885. The number OF bushels reported
marketed In the same months OF lSS45 was
S46S,5l3, or thirty three per cent OF the
crop of 1884. For these months in lSS-h
reports were received from about thirty
seven per cent. and In 1885 from about
forty eight per cent Of the elevators and
mills in the southern four tiers OF coun-
ties About 9, 732, 900 bu. of the 1885 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-f1 I;
barley, eighty. eight; clover, meadows and
pastures, seventy -four; clover sowed this
year, eighty one per cent. The condition
OF corn compared with July l, 1885, is lib.
Seven per cent OF corn planted failed to
grow; apples in the southern four tiers OF
counties promise ninety-four per cent, and
in the northern counties eighty-six per
cent. OF an average crop.
The weather Is extremely dry. Com
plants Of drouth come from every part OF
the state. At Lansing the rain fall during
June amounted TO only two and fourteen
hundredths inches, az compared with four
and thirty seven hundredths inches, aver
age for twenty years, as recorded at the
state agricultural college. No rain has
fallen in July to 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,
Washtenaw and Eaton counties. Wheat
and potatoes are in bad shape in MuNkegon
county. In Van Buren, county oats will
yield about two-thirds 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 cou Ity. Corn is seriously affected
in Lenawee county and oats are short in
Branch county.