St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-10
FALL OF TWENTY POINTS.
Uncle Sans Crop Summary Is
Discouraging.

WASHINGTON, Aug. S.-There is q
reduction in condition of all cereals as
reported by the statisticlan Of the de-
partment of agriculture. The decline
from the 1st of July to the 1st of Au-
gust is from 99.1 to 1873 in corn; from
944 to 1872 in spring wheat; from Sic
to 7O.1 in oats; from 1873 to 1913 in bar
ley. Condition of buckwheat is 90.1 and
spring rye S6.S. Condition of Irish po-
tatoes is reduced from 91.7 to TIA. A
fall of twenty points indicates the dis
aster which has befallen the corn crop
within thirty days. The cause is the abb
normally high temperature of the CEN
tral maize districts, with insuff1ciency
of rain fall. The returns of Grouth,
which covered a broad area, and the
severity of effects produced, are more
nal service record of temperature
appears to indicate. One factor
in the blighting of vegetation is
evidently the hot winds that have
scorched the lower basin of the Mis-
souri, valley and the Ohio valley. The
change from drouth to daily saturation
by repeated and heavy showers has
been too sudden and extreme in those
regions where drouth has been relieved
by seasons of moisture. The crop is late
in the New England states, and will
take long season to mature it. In the
middle states the high temperature has
advanced the growth in the northern
districts, and in the more southern
there has been some injury from
drought. The South Atlantic states
report local drouth, with subsequent
rains, and comparatively good, though
somewhat reduced, condition of corn.
Some counties IN Mississippi have suf-
fered materially from absence of sea-
sonable moisture. In Louisiana the
crop is in high condition, though some
what late in the Overf1owed districts.
In Texas the crop is now matured, and
is good except in the area that has suf-
fered most from drouth. Late planted
corn in Arkansas has been seriously in
jured by drouth of the last three weeks
in July. In the western and south
western parts of Kentucky the crop
has been severely scorched, but the
rains since the 23d of July have mate
rally relieved the fields of the central
and eastern districts. In Ohio there is
great difference between the northern
and southern parts of the state. The
southern division of the counties
of Indiana and Illinois have like
wise received greater damage than the
northern. Condition is slightly higher
in Missouri. In Kansas the severity
of the drought has eliminated, Iowa
and Nebraska are nearly in the status
of the Ohio valley. while Minnesota
makes the highest average of all the
states. Wisconsin suffers slightly and
Michiganstill more from drouth. There
has been a considerable reduction in
the condition of spring wheat, amount
ing to fully eleven points. 1t is less in
the Dakotas than in the other spring
wheat districts. The average condition
is so in Wisconsin, so in Minnesota, 81
in Iowa, II in Nebraska and SS in the
Dakotas. The latter is a decline of
seven points owing to hot, southern
winds. which affected the late sown
more than the early. The injury to
oats that made the condition of last
month so low, the lowest of the. hstof
cereals, has been much intensified
since, making reduction of eleven
points. The crop is certain to be one of
very low yield and probably poor quail
ity. Another great crop Of Importance,
potatoes. has also been much damaged
by drought. A low rate of yield is as
Sured.