New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-11
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.
CONDITION OF WINTER WHEAT HIGHER
THAN WAS BELIEVED TO BE
THE
Washington, May lo--The crop report ior May
issued BY the Department Of Agriculture follows:

Washington. May lo-The crop report Tor May
issued By the Department OF Agriculture follows;
The Nav returns to the statistlcian OF the De-
partment Of Agriculture show the acreage IN wh.e.
ee s oOo acres This is about 100000 acres lee.
than the estimated to nave peen sow n,naer
wheat harvested last year The reduction IN acre,
age in the principal States as compared w's ss .e
film no;s sci 600; indiana, $4,000 Missouri st;oc
Texas 227OOG Ohio lis oo Ne6raska ,e ede
For the area remaining under cultivation t ss an n
Tage c9aaiton L S be as mean Of the average OF
the last ten years. The condition in me panCIpd -
States after pedue1g 1hs a ST. Maryland @ vr
e einia IS: Texas 81 tennessee. rs: Kentucky; 49,
s ShI1 q g; Kansss a. c0 taona & Oklahoma &C.
The average condition Of wnesps rye nd es ths
mean Of the May averages for the last ten years
About half Of the entire winter rye Where crop the
Conditions are 80 and 81 respectively; - .,.os,
sng ophns is 6 work R's srs a dons
~ assprated at SIP per cent OF the total contem-
plated. The proportion usually done by May -
"PT he average Condition Of meadows is 9 against
92e on May OF last year and 1874 on the GORE
The Average condition Of spring pastures ,Ss Is CORE
against sl.2 on May /, 1885, and SS'f OH 'ne eo''e-
spending date in 1891
The cotton crop report for May issued to-day ny
the Department of Agriculture is as follows;
The cotton report for the month OF May indi,
Gates merely the belief OF correspondents on NAY
az 10 the Intentions of planters regardlnB tne ncre
age TO be planted and the estimates peng nap!e W
modification during May. they should De Iesst ueu
merely as a general indication or the sIenstn i -,
the tendency toward an enlargement or leuuct,1pn
OF acreage. In every cotton-growns D'aed o o
Indications on the LIST inst. pointed TO a reaucea
acreage with corresponding decrease III sle se
OF fertilizers and increased acreage III 'o N"'i
The probable reduction, by States IS as follows:
In Nississippi and Indian Territory, per cent; III
Alabama S; Texas. .; Arkansas lOi SCUM Sarolhn
II. Louisiana, II; Georgia, IL; Nofth IarohIld anu
Tsnnessee IL and Oklahoma, ~.
No estimate of the total reduction VIII De pun,
lished until next month, when the final reports on
nlenting will be compared with the reNlseu "S'e-
axe figures for last year
II had been reported that the condition OF winter
wheat would prove to be about 20, but the report
shows n 10 be 1872 Figured into bushels, the
calculation being based on 100 as the figure repre-
sentlng perfect crop and the last five crops being
averaged the estimate represents yeid OF 40
bushels an acre which on 100000 acres as gwen
in the report makes the indicated winter wheat
cron 21s so 600 bushels This compares WIN tie
estimated crop in April of Gl3OWW pusnieis, "ii''e
tbe actnal crop in 1898 was 379 1921 bushels;
since Nav 1 when the figures on wnlch tHls ,s-
mort Is based were made up. the weather gsneIal,S
Throughout the country has been faVoIdple po'h
for winter and spring wheat - J.. A.. so..
Western advices recently have been TO the erect
that much of the lost winter wheat acreage mas
been resown 10 spring grain. Especially mas thls
boon the case IN Nebraska, where. IL mas oeen
stated nearly the entire area oil winter "heat was
1ioughed M and seeded to a spring crop.