Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-10-25
October Crop Report.

Ills YOU'LL Is ODIdlucu ny multiply
ing the number of acres in wheat
in each county, by the average yield
per acre in the same county and
adding the products. The acreage
is taken from the Farm Statistics
as returned by supervisors last
spring, and the average per acre
from records kept by threshers,
supplemented by special canvass
by correspondents.
The total area in wheat as shown
by the Farm Statistics was 1,o7S, 252
acres. The number of acres in the
southern counties was 1897, 158,
in the central 233,883, and in the
northern 48,911. Of the total area
the records of threshings include
more than 10000 acres.
The average yield in the southern
counties is returned at 1886 BUSH
els; in the central counties at 1898
bushels; in the northern counties
at 10.40 bushels, and in the State
at 1901 bushels.
Wheat is of good quality and full
weight.
The total number of bushels of
wheat reported marketed by farm
ers in September is 2,277,635. Of
this amount 626,623 bushels were
marketed in the first or southern
tier of counties; 512,276 bushels in
the second tier; 390,466 bushels in
the third tier; SAL, O98 bushels in
the fourth tier; 170,045 bushels in
the fifth and sixth tiers, and 1929
bushels in the northern counties.
At 35 elevators and mills from
which reports have been received
there was no wheat marketed DUR
ing the month.
The total number of bushels of
wheat reported marketed in the two
months, August-September, is s.
526,604, which is 474,332 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; central counties, 1898
bushels; northern counties, "a, IA
bushels; state, 26,96 bushels.
Corn is estimated to yield i'll the
state 48 bushels of ears per acre.
The estimate for the southern coun-
ties is Al bushels; central So; and
northern 81.
Potatoes are estimated to yield
Sc per cent of an average crop.
The figures for the sections are,
southern, SO; central, 81; northern,
81.
Winter apples are estimated to
yield one-eight of a crop in the
southern counties, and % per cent
of all 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 degrees, 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 de-
ficiency, "a degrees, was in the
northern counties Of the lower pen
insula. The mean temperature Of
each section was as follows: Up
per Peninsula, 54.3 degrees; north
ern counties, 56.3 degrees; central
counties as desigated in the mete-
geological tables, 50.4 degrees, and
in the southern two tiers of coun-
ties, 81.9 degrees. The mean daily
temperature of the state was below
the normal on seventeen days. The
highest mean daily temperature in
the southern two tiers Of counties
was rs degrees on the 18th, and the
lowest A degrees on the goth.
The drouth, noted in the Septem-
Der report as having prevailed in
the state since the 22d Of June, was
not broken in the southern and
central sections of the state, until
September IL and 10. On these
two days there fell 0.29 of all inch
of rain in the central counties, and
1 inch in the southern counties.
The southern counties are here un-
derstood to include only the south
ern two tiers Of counties, and the
central counties the Sd, 4th, 9Th
and 9th tiers according to the d.
visions in the meteorological tables.
After the 18th a number of light
showers occurred in these sections,
but no heavy, soaking rain. The
average rainfall in the southern
counties in September was FAC
in ches, deficiency Of 0.57 of an
inch. The average in the central
counties was 2.04 inches, deficiency
of 0.79 of an inch.
About one-fifth Of an inch of
rain fell in the northern counties
and the upper peninsula on Septem-
Der 1. The average rainfall for
the month in the former section
was 2.92 inches, a deficiency Of 0.46
Of an inch, and the average in the
upper peninsula was 2.02 inches, a
deficiency of 1.04 inches.
The dry weather has greatly
damaged corn and potatoes, delayed
wheat sowing, and reduced the wheat
acreage.
JOAN w. JoCHIM,