Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-06-12
CROP RETURNS.
Report of the Department Of Agri-
culture For June.
DRAWBACKS TO The WHEAT YIELD.
Averages Of Area and COnditiOn-IncreaSs
Of Cotton Plantlng-Rapid Germsna-
tIon In the Flooded Dis
tricts.


al returns of June to the Department Of
Agriculture include preliminary esti-
mates of the area of wheat, both spring
and winter, and its condition. While
several States increased the area of win
ter wheat last autumn, the heavy re-
duction by plowing and planting In
other crops to replace the winter killed
wheat in Illinois, in Indiana and to
limited extent in two or three other
States, has reduced the acreage in every
wheat growing State of any prominence
except Kansas and Oregon. The per
centages represent the actual area now
growing, in comparison with the acreage
harvested last year, and include all that
was seeded last fall except what has
been replaced by other crops. The gen.
eral average is 91.2, reduction of 6s
per cent of last years winter wheat
area. The percentages of the principal
States are as follows:
New York 9S, Pennsylvania SO, Vir-
ginia 81, Georgia IS, Texas rs, Ken
lucky "a, Ohio 95, Michigan 80, Indiana
SO, Illinois &c, Missouri 96, Kansas 109,
California So Oregon 1O3. An increase
in acreage of spring wheat is reported
except in Wisconsin and Dakota. The
percentages are: Wisconsin 81, Mime
sofa lis, Iowa 1O4, Nebraska los, the
Dakotas 25. There is also increase in
Colorado, Washington and the Terri
tories. The general percentage is 1858.
Taking winter and spring wheat to-
gether, the percentage of last years
breadth is 95.5, showing a net loss OF
nearly 1850, 600 acres. The estimated
area of 1889 was 3S, 123, $50 acres.
The condition of growing winter wheat
has declined from so to 7S.1 since the
first of May. Slight Improvement is no.
ticed in New York and Pennsylvania
and in Ohio and California. The condi-
ton of wheat in Indiana, Illinois and
Texas remains at the same low figures
of last month. A decline is apparent in
Michigan, Missouri and Kansas and in
nearly all the Southern States. The
plants are generally thin on the ground
and lacking in development. The
patches of bare spots are more conspic-
uous as the season progresses.
The averages of condition of the
principal States are: New York 93
PENNSYLVANIA 9S, Virginia 81, Georgia
So, Texas 67, Tennessee ~, Kentucky
Sc, Ohio 81, Michigan 60, Indiana So,
Illinois 64, Missouri a, Kansas so,
California Sc and Oregon 81.
The following are some of the spring
wheat percentages of condition: WiscOn-
sin 80, Minnesota o., Iowa %, Nebraska
SIS, the Dakotas 80 and Colorado 90. The
average of the entire spring wheat
breadth is 91.2
The reported area of oats is 9S.7, con-
dition IS; area of barley 9S1, condi-
ton sc. 4: area of rye 9S5, condition o. 3;
! area of clover 1907, condition 96. l.
The returns show an increase in acre
| age in cotton in near.y every State.
| The area compared with the acreage of
1889 is reported in this preliminary in
vestigation as follows:
Virginia 0S, North Carolina 1O2, South
| Carolina 103 Georgia 102, Florida 103,
Alabama 1O2. Mis- ;issippi 1O2, Louisiana
95, Texas los, Arkansas %, Tennessee
100; average 102. The average cond-
ton is SS.S the percentage Of Virginia
being 90, North Carolina 9S, South Caro-
lima 81, Georgia 81, Florida 90, Alabama
93, Mississippi s., Louisiana 81, Texas
| 81 Arkansas So. Tennessee 81. The
overf1ows in Arkansas and Louisiana
delayed planting IN those States and
prevented increase which would other
| wise have been made. In the Missis-
sippi valley and in Texas heavy rains,
local floods and inundations have caused
an unusual amount of replanting, and
on the Mississippi and other great riv-
ers delay of planting until the waters
recede In such cases the seed has
been dropped in the mud and the plants
have appeared promptly, sometimes in
four days from planting.