The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-12
CROPS OF THE WORLD.
France Will be Short on WheatAbout
100000 Bushels.

Washington, June dissatisfaction
Robinson of the agricultural depart
ment has issued the following cereal
crop report:
The report of June first, makes the
acreage of winter wheat at present
growing after allowance for abandon
ments, 94.6 per cent of the area har-
vested last year. or 1919 per cent of the
area sown in the fall of 1896 This in
round numbers is q, 562, 600 acres The
per centaSeS of winter wheat acreages
upon the basis indicated of the princi-
pal winter wheat states are as follows:
Ohio 81; Michigan SO; Indiana "a; IL
linOis 81; MISSOURI 80; Kansas 81; Cali
fornia 105.
In New York, Pennsylvania, Della
ware, Virginia, North Carolina, Ala
bama, Texas Arkansas, Tennessee,
West Virginia, the area SOWn, cOmpar-
ed with that harvested last year, has
been materially increased. The cOndi-
ton of winter wheat has fallen since
report May !, being 1875 per cent gainSt
S0.2 on that date, decline of II per cent.
The condition of June first, last year,
was 77.9. The per centages of the prin-
cipal states are:
Ohio So; Michigan 70: Indiana so; IL
lirOis So; Missouri As; Kansas So; Cali
fOrnia n.
The per centage of spring wheat area
for the entire country as compared with
that of 1896 has been increased, being
10 per cent of last years acreage.
The total area of spring wheat sown
is therefore, in round numbers, 10 900, 900
acres, and the combined winter and
spring is "a 569, 900 acres, or 9g9 per
cent of that harvested in 1896.
The condition of spring wheat shows
an average for the whole country of S9.6
per cent, against 99.6 per cent on June
l, 1896 The condition of all wheat is
82.7 against S7.6 per cent, the same date
last year.
The conditions of spring wheat for, the
principal spring wheat states are as
follows:
Minnesota "a: Wisconsin 80; Iowa 80;
Nebraska SO; South Dakota IS; North
Dakota 81; Washington 100; Oregon 49,
The preliminary report places the ac-
reage of oats at 1913 per cent of last
years area, and makes the condition SO
per cent, against 98.8 last June.
Acreage of rye is SO per cent of last
years; condition of rye S9.9 per cent.
Acreage of barley 92.2 per cent of last
years; condition of same June 1, S7.4
per cent. Acreage of rye 1881; per cent
condition 98.S per cent.
Reports from the consular officers of
the United States in Manitoba and
western Ontario indicate good crops of
both winter and spring grain. The
spring acreage in the Winnipeg consul
lar district is about Is per cent greater
than last year, while crops are about
ten days earlier. Reports from eastern
Ontario and Quebec are less favorable.
inquiries made by the United States
minister to Argentina tend to show that
this years wheat acreage will not ex-
coed last years, and may be much less.
Fruit throughout central and western
Europe has been considerably injured
by frost. Wheat growth is generally
retarded by the backward season. and
in Spain, Italy and Hungary, its quail
ity is deteriOrating by persistent rains.
Condition reported improving in north
ern Europe also in Roumania, Bulgaria
and parts of Russia, but not in Poland
or the southwestern provinces. Def
mated from 100000 TO 55,000,000 BUSH
els.