The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-11
ANNUAL ESTIMATE
OF GRAIN ACREAGE
Shows a Reduction of AGO.
900 Acres.
WHEAT CONDITION POOR
TEN PER CENT LOWER THAN
LAST YEAR, TWO BELOW
AVERAGE
THE DAT CROP IS NO BETTER Off
The Small Grain Crops in the States Producing
Them Mainly is Better Than in East
ern and Middle Eastern
States.


reports of the spring wheat acreage in
dictate reduction of about 100000
acres, or % per cent. OF the twenty
States reporting 10000 acres or upward
in spring wheat, six report an increase
aggregating about 245.O00 acres. and
fourteen, decrease amounting to about
$4,000 acres. There is a reduction of
Z per cent. in North Dakota. of ) in Min
Ilesota, in Iowa, 3 in Wisconsin, l in
Nebraska and in Oregon. On the
other hand there is an increase of /
per cent. in South Dakota and of 6 in
Washington.
The average condition of spring wheat
on June LIST was Oh, as compared with
1909 mt the corresponding date last
year, 1915 on June list. 1897, and 49,
the mean of the June averages for the
last fifteen years. The averages in the
principal States are as follows:
Minnesota. o.; North Dakota. 93;
South Dakota, 96; Wisconsin, 90; Iowa,
Oh; Nebraska, 50; Washington, So; Ore
gon, 81.
The average condition of winter wheat
is 67.3. as compared with 9O.S at the
corresponding date last year; 7S.5 on
June LIST, 1897. and S3.4. the mean for
the June averages for the last fifteen
years. The principal averages by
States are as follows:
PENNSYLVANIA and Texas, n: Mary
land, 70; Virginia and Kentucky, Y;
Tennessee and Washington, 16: Ohio,
70; Michigan, 40; Indiana and Kansas,
So; Illinois. So: Missouri, 60; Oregon,
81: California. 81, and Oklahoma, So.
The acreage winter-killed having been
eliminated, the present averages relate
strictly to the acreage still under culti-
Walton.
The total reported acreage in oats is
seven tenths of ] per cent. less than
last year There is an increase of 4
per cent. in New York, of per cent. in
Pennsylvania Ohio and Michigan; of )
per cent. in Wisconsin and Kansas; of
per cent. in Nebraska, and of 3 per
cent. i'm North Dakota. On the other
hand there is decrease of 2 per cent.
in Indiana, Minnesota, South Dakota
and Iowa; of l per cent. in Illinois; 10
per cent in Missouri, and per cent. in
Texas
The average condition of oats is SS.1,
as compared with 90 on June LIST of last
year; 50 at the corresponding date in
1897, and 91.2, the mean of the June
averages of the last fifteen years. The
principal State averages are as follows:
New York and Illinois, SO; Pennsyl-
vania, 81: Texas, 30; Ohio, Sc; Michi-
gan and North Dakota, "a; Indiana and
Nebraska, 90; Wisconsin, 80; Mime
sofa and Missouri, 80; Iowa, 80; Kan
sas, rs; South Dakota, 81.
The acreage reported as under barley
is 81 per cent greater than last year.
There is an increase of / per cent. in
Minnesota, per cent. in North Dakota,
and 10 per cent. in California. AS a
partial offset there is a decrease of 2
per cent. in New York; / per cent. in
Wisconsin. and 3 per cent. in Iowa and
South Dakota.
The average condition of barley is
Ola, as compared with 1873 at the
corresponding date last year; S1.4 on
June LIST. 1897, and 500, the mean of
the June averages of the last fifteen
years. The condition in the principal
States is as follows:
New York, 80; Wisconsin, 90; Mime
sofa, 81; North Dakota and Iowa, %;
South Dakota, SS; California, 81.
The acreage under rye shows de-
crease of SO per cent, as compared
with last year, the reduction in the
principal States being as follows:
New York, l per cent; Pennsylvania,
5; Michigan, 20; Illinois, 16; Wisconsin,
9; Minnesota, 10; Iowa, %; Kansas, IL;
Nebraska, II
The average condition of rye lis S4.5
as compared with 97.1 on June LIST OF
last year; 800 at the corresponding date
in 1897, and 91.3, the mean of the June