The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-11
RAIN CAME TOO LATE.
Parched Fields of Corn Yield
Scanty Crops.
KANSAS THE WORST SUFFERER
Blizxards In Winter, Cyclones in Spring
and Drouth In summer Make Life
. Burden ON the Prairies.

WASHINGTON CfTY, Sept. 10.-The ma
tionai crop report shows that the injury to
the corn crop reported last month was in
tensified by the continuance of the drouih
in August until rains came, but too late for
full recovery. The average is 20. against
1873 last month, the lowest average since
1881. The returns show the condition of
winter wheat at the time of harvesting to
have been less favorable than on July 1,
and rs far as threshing has progressed the
result is generally disappointment. The
July average was 1872, while the present
average is 1906. The general average for
spring wheat was also reduced from So. 2 to
70.8. The average for wheat of both kinds
was 1875 in 1858, and the September aver
age for both was n. It was 70 IN 1881.
The yield OF spring wheat was unusually
variable in the Dakotas, ranging from high
yields to five bushels and less per acre.
On the Atlantic coast there is an i'm
provement in corn. Since August de-
cline has occurred in New York. Ohio, Illi-
nois and all the Northwestern states, and
in some others of less Importance. The
crop is late in the Eastern states, requiring
maturing weather throughout September.
IT is also late and variable IN New
lantic coast states return a
relatively high condition. impaired
locally by the effects of midsummer
Mississippi Arkansas and Texas, drouth
reduced the condition too low for subse-
quent recovery. The Ohio and Missouri
valleys report protracted drouth and low
condition. While rains in the last two
weeks of August were beneficial, they did
not always restore the losses of the first
half of the month.
The lowest condition is in Kansas, though
some Eastern counties make good returns.
The Dakotas and Nebraska are a little
higher. The crop is late and will require as
nj UGH time to mature on the latitude of 40
degrees, as far earlier varieties grown on the
line of AZ degrees.
Returns of the condition of winter
wheat at the time of harvesting are less
favorable than those of the LIST of July. So
far as threshing has progressed the results
are generally Disappointing. The July
average was 1872, while the present aver
age is 1876. The general average of spring
wheat has also been reduced from e3.2 to
1913 The average for wheat of both kinds
is 1915. In 1883 the September average for
wheat was n. 1t was 70 In 1881. The
yield of spring wheat was unusually vari-
able in the Dakotas, running from high
yields to FIVE bushels less per acre. The
progress of threshing will develop the ex-
tent of these differences.
Rye yields less than was expected. The
condition as reported is $50
Oats are the lowest ever reported. having
fallen from ISL in August to 64.2. The
rate Of yield will be the smallest in twenty
years.
The condition of barley is not very seri-
Ously lower-from S28 to S26.
Buckwheat has fully maintained its
August condition, the average being 90.5.
The figures for potatoes have fallen since
August 1 from ia to 64.7. the smallest
average yield ever reported, that of 1887
being 81 3.
The reported percentage for fattening
swine is 81 per cent. and their condition
937