Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-05-10
WHEAT AND OATS.

Report ON Crop Conditions In Twelve
Agricultural States.
Reports have been received from its
special correspondents by the Farmers
Review In twelve States, on the con-
dition OF winter wheat, spring wheat,
and oats.
In Illinois 1t Is now evident that . great
deal of damage was done by the hard freezes
the crop Is fast becomine neutralized by the
good growing weather OF the present month.
In Indiana the permanent damage was not
sns ss0sP' reports fo1
the State. In Ohio the condition is not SO
good Is before the freeze. but yet no treat
generally from fair to good. In Michigan lit
tie reference is made to the cold weather in
Il has suered from dry Winds. while While in others
ssSs on clay lands Better G e @oss
+ has NOT yet ssSoied out as much as could Be-
desired. From Kentucky comes the positive
reports that the freeze did little harm. In
killed by cold the warm weather mas brought
1t out Of its precarious condition and fair
crop is looked for. The forward rank wheat
sustained che most damage. The general
condition in the State is good. In some
counties IN Missouri the late freeze and dry
weather have considerably reduced the condi-
tion Of the crop, but recent conditions are
more favorable. and are bringing up the aver
age. In some counties the stand Is rather thin.
The genersi condition for the state Is fair. in
great, but what damage was done has not been
recovered by later conditions, and the average
as whole Is low. In Nebraska the condition Is
no more than fair, and in some localities the
crop is In bad shape as q result OF drought. In
Iowa the crop is In certain counties badly dam
consin not much change is reported over last
month. The general condition OF the crop 10
good.
In Illinois the early sown oats suffered Sc
verely by the MARCH freeze, and the land had
to be quite generally resown. The oats that
account Of the reseeding IL IL by no means GER
tain That the disaster will cut do wn the size OF
the final crop. In Indiana oats were widely
injured, In some places the estimate being
that one-half were killed by freezing. AS
IN Illinois. resceding has been quite gen.
etSsr but some OF he mel Will be put into
the fields that froze out having been mostly
reseeded- but some of them not yet started to
ward. In most places in Michigan seeding ao Of
oats has not yet been completed, ana ut the
time OF the March freeze notenough fields were
MP to make the possibility or loss great In
Kentucky the loss to oats was very great. Nu-
merous reports, are received Of the entire
killing Of the oats over wide areas. and there
Many Of RsG I Ss GIVEN
has been great and the general out:
look Is bad. Some, but not ALL of
the lost area is being reseeded TO oats. The
loss was great In Kansas. and recovery does
not seem probable. In Nebraska the outlook
Is fair. as the oats were not developed enough
at she time of the blizzard to destroy them.
In Iowa the general condition for oats is good,
though some localities. where the crop was
early, suffered severely. In Wisconsin pros
poets are good. ~ y - =
SPRING WHEAT. 9Ht l8t
Spring wheat is not raised In most Of the
states covered by the report. in States where
1t Is raised, seeding Is not vet completed.