The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
CONDITION OF CEREALS.
Inc neat and Out Crops in Twelve
States.

CHICAGO, April 25-Reports have heen
received from special correspondents of the
Farmers Review in u states on the condi-
ton of winter wheat spring wheat and
oats. In Illinois it is now evident that a
great deal of damage was done by the hard
freeze or the latter part of March, but this
loss to the crop is fast being neutralized
by the good growing weather of the pres
eht month In Indiana the permanent dam
age was not great except in a few counties
ana the general reports are favorable for
the state. In Ohio the condition is not so
good, but yet no great damage has been
sustained The condition is generally fair
to good In Michigan little reference is
made to the cold weather as injurng
wheat. In some counties it has suffered
from dry winds, while in others it needs
rain. The crop seems to be doing poorest
on clay lands. 1t is better in most places
imam 1t appeared to be three weeks ago.
From Kentucky comes the positive reports
that the freeze did little harm In places
where the plant had been apparently killed
py cold the warm weather has brought it
out of its poor condition. and fair crop
is looked for. The forward rank wheat
sustained the most damage The gem
eral condition in the state is good In
some counties in Missouri the late
freeze and dry weather have considera blv
reduced the condition of the crop, but re-
cent conditions are more favorable and are
bringing up the average In some counties
the stand is rather thin. The general condi-
ton of the state is fair. In Kansas the
damage done by the freeze was not great.
put great damage was done in several coun-
ties, and as whole is low In Nebra ska
the condition is not more than fair and in
some localities the crop is in bad shane as
result OF the drought. In Iowa the crop
Is IN certain counties badly damaged and
seems to be falling In Wisconsin not much
cnanse mas been reported over last month.
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verely by the March freeze. and the land
| had TO be quite generally resown The oats
that were late soWn escaped injury On ac-
count of the reseeding it is by no means
certain that the disaster will cut down the
size OF the final crop. In Indiana oats We're
seVerely injured In some places the esti-
mates being that one-haf were killed In
Ohio the crop is only fair with the fields
mat were froze out having been mostly re-
SEEDED but some of them have not vet
started to grow. Some counties report them
very backward. In most places in Michi-
gan the seeding of oats has not yet been
completed, and at the time of the March
freeze not enough fields were up TO make
the possibility of loss great. In Kentucky
the loss OF oats was very great. Numerous
reports are received of the entire killing of
oats over wide areas, and there are no ac-
companying reports of reseeding. Many
of the fields will doubtless be given IN to
other crops. In Missouri the loss has been
great. and the general outlook is bad Some
but not all of the lost area is being re-
planted to oats. The loss was great in
Kansas, and recovery does not seem pos
sible. In Nebraska the outlook is fair, as
the oats were not developed enough at the
time of the blizzard to destroy them In
Iowa the general condition for oats is good
In Wisconsin prospects are good.
Spring wheat is not raised in most of the
states covered by the reports. In the states
where it is raised seeding is not yet COM
pleted