Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-27
Michigan Crop Report.

The wheat crop Of Michigan this
year as indicated by reports at hand is
%, G90, 1913 bushels. This total is OBJ
tanned by multiplying the number of
acres in wheat III each county, by the
average yield per acre in the same
county and adding the products. The
acreage is taken from the Farm Sta
tistics as returned by supervisors last
spring, and the average per acre from
records kept by threshers, supplement
ted by special canvass by cOrrespon-
dents.
The total area III wheat as shown 10y
the Farm Statistics was ,57S, 252 acres.
The number of acres in the southern
counties was ,297 ,l5S, in the central
233 1888 and IN the northern 46,9ll. OF
the total area the records of threshings
include more than l6S, 900 acres.
The average yield in the southern
counties is returned at 1876 bushels;
in the central counties at 1899 bushels;
in the northern counties at 1910 bush
els, and in the State at .0l bushels.
Wheat is of good quality and full
weight.
The total number of bushels of wheat
reported marketed by farmers i'll Sep
TENDER is 2,277 $40. OF this amount
626 1923 bushels were marketed in the
first or southern tier of counties;
5l2 ,276 bushels in the second tier;
800 ,466 bushels in the third tier; 54l 900
bushels in the fourth tier; l70,045
bushels in the fifth and sixth tiers, and
81 l29 bushels in the northern counties.
At 81 elevators and mills from which
reports have been received there was
no wheat marketed during the month.
The total number of bushels of
wheat reported marketed in the two
months. August-September is 1926
504, which is 474, 1882 bushels more than
reported marketed IN the same months
last year.
The average yield of oats as shown
by threshers' records, is as follows:
Southern counties, 27.57 bushels; CEN
trail counties, 1888 bushels; northern
counties 24.l4 bushels; State, 1886
bushels.
Corn is estimated to yield i'll the
State As bushels of ears per acre. The
estimate for the southern counties is
"a bushels; central So; and northern 5S.
Potatoes are estimated to yield 56
per cent of an average crop. The
figures for the sections are, southern,
80; central, 81; northern, 81.
Winter apples are estimated to yield
one-eighth of II crop in the southern
counties, and % per cent of an average
in the central counties and the State.
The figures for the northern counties
are SO.
The mean temperature of the State
for the month of September, $50 de-
grees, was 10 degrees below the normal.
1t was below the normal in all sections
of the State except the southern two
tiers of counties where it was just
normal. The greatest average detici-
ency, pa degrees, was in the northern
counties of the lower peninsula. The
mean temperature of each sections was
as follows: Upper Peninsula, 54.3 de-
grees; northern counties 56.3 degrees;
central counties as designated in the
meteorological tables, 59.4 degrees
and in the southern two tiers of
counties 81 9 degrees. The mean daily
| temperature of the State was below the
normal on seventeen days. The
highest mean daily temperature of the
southern two tiers of counties was 7G
degrees OH the 18th, and the lowest
"A degrees on the goth.
The drouth, noted in the September
report rs having prevailed in the State
since the Odd of June, was not broken
in the southern and central sections
of the State, until September y and 10
On these two days there fell 0.29 of an
inch of rain in the central counties
and inch in the southern counties
The southern counties are here under
stood to include only the southern two
tiers of counties, and the central coun
ties the Sd, 18th, 9th and 9th tiers &C
cording to the divisions in the meteoro
logical tables. After the 18th mum
Der of light showers occurred in these
sections, but no heavy soaking rain
The average rainfall in the southern
counties in September was 2.46 inches
deficiency of 0.57 of an inch. The
average i'm the central counties was 30
inches, deficiency of 0.79 of an inch
J About one-fifth of an inch of rail-
fell in the northern counties and tn,
upper peninsula on September ]. TIL
average rain fall for the month in tn,
former section was 2.92 inches, n defic
iency of 0.46 of an inch, and the aver
age in the upper peninsula was 30
inches, n deficiency of l.04 inches.
The dry weather has greatly dam
: aged corn and potatoes, delayed whea
sowing, and reduced the wheat acreage
JOHN w. JOCHIM,
Secretary of State