Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-11
THE MONTHLY CROP REPORT.
The Wheat Yield Surpasses Expectation
Condition of Other Cereals.

The Wheat Yield Surpasses Expectation
Condition of Other Cereals.
WASHINGTON, September 10.-The Sep
tember report OF the Department of Agri-
culture shows a better yield of spring
wheat than was expectee month ago.
The improvement is in the Northern belt,
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota. In
Nebraska there has been decline, in Iowa
little change. The general average is 81,
an increase of four points. The average
yield of the crop, so far as the results OF
threshing are reported, exceeds IL bushels
and may reach III bushels per acre.
Threshing of wheat in the Ohio Valley
gives better return than was expected at
harvest, and there is some improvement in
Missouri and Kansas. In the Middle and
Eastern States the percentages of July are
not materially changed. In the South the
harvest WAS disappointing, and rains in
jured the product in the shock. The re-
turns indicated an average yield of about
l2l bushels per acre. The entire wheat
crop will apparently exceed that of last
wear by $1,000 900 to 81, 900 600 bushels.
The exact determination OF area harvested
and results of threshing are easily equiya-
lent to variation Ofat least , per cent.
Corn has declined from 81 in August to
-. In the States Of principal production
the status is rs follows: Kentucky, from
~ in August to 80 in September: Ohio, IS
to SO; Michigan, 90 in both returns; Indi-
ana. 80 to 81; Illinois, declines from n to
-; Missouri, from - to %; Kansas, ~ to
62; Nebraska, firm 76 to 6S; Iowa, - TO
81. In the South Atlantic States there
has been improvement on the Gulf coast,
except in Texas, where drought has re-
duced condition. The present crop pros
pect, with no further decline, is 10 per
cent worse than last year and indicates
over 2l bushels per acre, or nearly ,6OO,-
OOO, 600 bushels.
The cotton returns show a vigorous con-
ditiOn of the plant, with lateness and
deficiency in fruiting. There has been i'm
prOvement in most of the States, with
decided decline in Texas and little in
Arkansas. The indiSputable reduction of
condition last month in the south and west
OfTexas, has been emphasized in this re-
turn. The average of condition Of the crop
area. -, is slightly above that of August
lst for the first time in September in tif-
teen years. With q long and favorable
autumn, it indicates an average crop. Yet
4 decline in the condition after this date is
usual. Insects have appeared in most
of the States, with little loss so far,
more from the boil worm than
from the caterpillar. The State averages of
condition are: Virginia -; North Carolina
-; South Carolina 81; Florida So; Georgia
81; Alabama 30; Mississippi -; Louisiana
81: Texas IS; Arkansas 90; Tennessee %.
The results OF threShing make the cOndi-
ton of oats at harvest 81, small reduction
from earlier expectation.
The average of barley is 93, indicating
IN average crop.
Buckwheat averages 9O. Potatoes have
declined from - 3-lO to II 40 from the
effects of local drought In New York the
decline is from 81 to 80, and it is heavy in
the dry area of the West. The condition
Of tobacco averages 81. The numbers of
fattenins hogs are apparently less by about
six per cent, with some reduction in aver
age weight.