Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-11
CRoe REPORTS.

l The Condition CT Winter and spring I wheat-In Better Condition in some States Than Was Reported in June -Unfavorable Returns Fron the South.
 WASHINGTON, July 10.-The July winter
 wheat report of the department of sgricul-
 ture represents the crops a harvested in all
 but its more northern lstitudes. It shows
 est in June in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois
 and Missouri and @ slight decline in Ohio,
 Kentucky, the Pacific coast and in the
 76 against 7s.1 lsat month, and the reduc-
 tion Is mostly in the non-commercial dis
 tricts, the commercial supply states taken
 together making nearly the same average as h June.
 The spring wheat average has advanced
 principal states are as follows: Wisconsin
 93, Minnesota 9S, Iowa 95. Nebraska Ss,
 the Dakotss 94, Montana 93, Colorado 90,
 Washington 93. Taken together the winter
 and spring wheat makes an average of S2 II
 instead of SPA last month. The returns
 from the south are very unfsvorable, indi-
 eating scarcely more than half of full crop
 The vitality of the crop was greatly impaired
 by March frosts. The aphis has been very
 prevalent on the Atlantic coast and saturat-
 ing rains have been injurious. These causes
 have produced shortening of the straw and
 shrivelipg of the grain with an unusual
 prevalence of rust. The fly and chinch bug
 appeared in some districts. After the in-
 jury from frosts that followed the lush
 growth of a mild winter the crop fell an easy prey to all the plaques that infest it. A heavy reduction in condition during June is reported in Kentucky. Yield and quality as tested by the thresher are worse than was anticipated, the plants thin on the ground, the heads light, the berry shrivelled. Ohio and Weet Virginia made slight reduc. ! tions, the winter killed areas, disappointing sound and plump grain. In Michigan, Inc diana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas the
 least injured fields manifestly improved | during the last month and promised better results in threshing, while the
 badly winter killed were worse
 blighted and more chaffy than was expected. The average was slightly advanced in all these states. The wide range of local condi- tfon increases the difficulty in reporting a true average, which may be more closely ap- proximated after threshing. In some coun- ties the grain is reported better than was ex- pected. Some counties in Kansas claim six teen bushels, some twenty per acre, and enc reports the best crop ever grown in quality | and yield, while others admit damage and ulbappOlutmeut. OpElnR Wuedt lu tno Mle- sissippi river states has had abundant moist | ure, while there is considerable complaint of drought in the Missouri valley.
 A small increase in the area of corn is re. | ported, of about six-tenths of one per cent. | The largest proportional extension is in the northwest. There has been nearly per cent. | increase in the south. The condition of corn
 averages 93.1 per cent. It is lowest in the
 eastern part of the Ohio valley and relatively
 high in the corn-growing states further west.
 The southern states generally report above %. There has been . severe decline in the
 condition of oats, which has fallen from S9.s | to SIS. It has been heaviest in the cotton
 states and is quite severe in the Ohio valley. | In the south, where winter oats are grown,
 rust has greatly injured the crop. In the west the aphis has sapped its vitality and
 rust has followed. Straw is short and the | head chaffy. The condition of rye is 92, nearly the same as at the last report. Barley has advanced from S8.4 to 88 3. An increase | of about 8 per cent. is reported in tobacco. Condition is relatively low, averaging sS 2. | It is lowest in the Ohio valley.