Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-06-14
Crop Report, June !, 1898,

The average condition of wheat
in each section, and the State, June
/, was as follows: Southern coun-
ties, II per cent; central, 70 per
cent; northern, So per cent, and
State 70 per cent, comparison being
with vitality and growth of average
years. The condition June l., has
been reported lower in the southern
counties only twice in eight years,
in 1888 when it was 81, and in
1890 when it was rs. The average
condition in the State June /, has
been lower but once in eight years,
in 1883, when it was SO.
In the southern counties where
So per cent of the crop is grown,
and in the State, there was a gain
of four points during May. In the
central counties there was no gain,
and in the northern counties gain
Of three points.
The total number of bushels of
wheat reported marketed by farm
ers i'll May is 667,S71. OF this
amount 200,114 bushels were mar
keted in the first or southern tier;
of counties; 155,704 bushels in the
second tier; 1887 bushels in the
third tier; 147, 1852 bushels in the
fourth tier; 44,503 bushels in the
fifth and sixth tiers. and 6,97l bush.
els in the northern counties. AT
40 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 ten
months, August-May, is 1909, 4S9,
which is | ,SS5, 96S bushels less than
reported marketed in the same
months last year.
Owing to unfavorable weather
corn was not nearly all planted June
/, but it was believed about the
usual area would be planted.
The area seed of oats is 90 per
cent, and of barley SO per cent of
the area i'll average years. In con-
dition the former crop is IS per
cent, and the latter SO per cent of
condition in average years.
Meadows and pastures. and clover
sowed this year are, in condition,
three per cent below a full average
Apples in the southern coun ties
are now estimated at 90 per cent,
III the central at 81 per cent, and
in the State at 81 per cent of an
average crop, as compared with 90
per cent III the southern counties
and State, and SO per cent in the
central one month ago. The crop
it is believed will be mainly of the
early or fall varieties.
Peaches promise about 80 per
cent of an average crop.
In the southern counties the
wages per month of farm hands
average S1S.01 with board, and S24.-
so without board; in the central
counties S17.45 with board, and
S26.26 without board, and in the
northern counties, S19.2S with
board, and 5000 without board.
The average wages paid farm
hands are higher now than in any
previous year since 1884. In 1890
the average wages paid in the south
ern counties, with board, was S18.45
in 1891, Sl6.S9; in 1892, S1750,
and in 1893, SlS.01.
The farm statistics of nearly 700
townships, collected by supervisors,
have been received at this Office.
The footings of the sheep and wool
columns indicate that the number
Of sheep now OH hand in the south
ern counties is about two and one
half per cent less than sheared in
1892. There has been an increase
in the central and northern coun-
ties nearly equaling in the aggre-
gate the loss in the southern coun-
ties.