The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
KANSAS AT THE BOTTOM.
Lowest Average Condition of Corn
Crop Shown.


Washington. Aug. 1.-THE August re-
port of the statistic4an of the d apartment
Of agriculture shows the following av-
erage conditions on August l: Corn
BIO; spring rye 93-7; barley 1913; Irish
potatoes 1873; spring wheat 96.5; oats
84.2; buckWheat S7.2.
The condition of corn $40, is IS points
lower than last month, Is points high
er than August /, 1897 but 9 points low
er than August 1, 1896 and six-tenths
of one point below the August average
Tor the last ten years.
The principal state averages are as
follows:
Ohio 50; Indiana Sc; Illinois Y; Iowa
%; Missouri Sc; Kansas SO and Nebras-
ka IS.
The condition Of spring wheat, 96.5,
is Is points higher than last month,
S.S points above the average on August
j, 1897; 176 points above that for Au-
August average for the past ten years.
The conditions in the principal states
are as follows:
Minnesota 101: North Dakota, 95;
South Dakota %; Nebraska 81 and Iowa
The average condition of spring rye
is 1871, which is 80 points lower than
last month but 3.9 points higher than
August 1, 1897; ST points higher than
August 1, 1896. and ga points above the
August average for the last ten years.
The average condition of oats is 84.2
as compared with 92.8 on July 1, 500 on
August 1, 1897; 77.3 on August I, 1896,
and 1877 the August averages for the
last ten years.
The proportion of the oat crop last
year still in the hands of farmers is es-
timated at 6-4 per cent as compared
with 10.1 per cent of the crop of 1895 in
farmers hands one year ago.
The average condition of barley is
1913, as compared with S5.7 on July l,
with SIS on August I, 1897; with S2.9 on
August l. 1896, and $50 the August av-
erage for the last ten years.
The average condition of Irish pota
toes is S3.9 against 95.5 last month; 77.9
on August 1. 1897; 94.8 on August 1,
1896, and 81 the August average for the
last ten years.
The reports as to the apple crop are
increasingly unfaVOrable. Some of the
leading apple states report practical
failure, while others report from one
third to two-thirds Of an average crop.
The cotton crop report of the de-
partment of agriculture says:
Taking the entire cotton producing
region as a unit the condition of the
crop on August 1 was exactly the same
as on July I, namely 81.2. This is 43
higher than on August 1, 1897; Ill
points higher than on August l. 1895,
and SIS points higher than the August
average for the last ten years
During July there was an improve
ment of 1 point in Georgia, 8 points in
North Carolina, points in Alabama,
points in Tennessee and Indian terri
tory and points in Oklahoma. On the
other hand there was a decline of 1
point in Texas and South Carolina and
points in Mississippi, the decline in
the last named state being the result Of
successive rains.
In the condition figures for Louisiana
and Arkansas there has been no change.
The averages are as follows:
Virginia "a; North Carolina 80; South
Carolina SO; Georgia 81; Florida 81;
Alabama 95; Mississippi 80; Louisiana
so; Texas ri; Arkansas SO; Tennessee
90; Missouri 80; Oklahoma 50; Indian
territory a.