The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-12
WHEAT AVERAGE REDUCED
MONTHLY REPORT OF STATISTI-
CLAN OF AGRICULTURAL
DEPARTMENT
SPRING WHEAT SHOWS LOSS
Average Condition Is About Ten
Per Cent Below Corresponds
ing Date of Previous Year
Oats Outlook Good.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE monthly
report Of the statstician of the depart
ment Of agriculture states that as re-
suit of a special investigation relative to
the winter wheat acreage plowed up or
cut for forage the departments esti-
mate of the area remaining under culti-
walton has been further reduced by 1876
900 acres, the area abandoned, in addition
to that announced May 10, comprising
5Sl.000 acres in Ohio, $4,000 acres in Michi-
gan, 100000 acres in Indiana, 34S,0 600 acres
In Illinois and AS, 900 acres In California.
This brings the area in winter wheat re-
naming under cultivation on June 1
down to 24,9OS.000 acres, a reduction from
the area SOWn in the fall of 5240,000 acres.
Notwithstanding this further reduction
of acreage by the elimination of all land
entirely abandoned, the condition of win
ter wheat declined during May So points,
the condition on June / being 50 Z against
8S9 on May i, 67.3 on June l, 1899; 9OS
at the corresponding date in 1898, and
ten-Year average of S0.7.
Preliminary reports on spring wheat
acreage indicate a reduction of about ST.
600 acres or % per cent Minnesota Wis
ConSin and Oregon TeDort reduction of
per cent; North Dckota and Nebraska
of per cent. and Iowa of per cent. In
South Dakota and Washington there is
an increase Of 1 per cent.
The average condition of spring wheat
or June ! was S7.3 as compared with 91.4
on June /, 1888; 1908 at the corresponding
date in 1893, and a ten-year average of
93 Mime, ota falls 10, North Dakota H.
South Dakota II and Wisconsin 9 points
below their respective ten-year averages
On. the other hand, the ten-year aver
ages are exceeded in Nebraska Iowa,
Oregon and Washington by u, l. and 0
points. respectively.
The tOta, reported acreage in oats ex-
cecds the acreage harvested last year by
80 per cent. There is an increase of 16
per cent in Ohio; IS per cent in Indiana;
per cent in New York; per cent in
PENNSYLVANIA and Wisconsin, and / per
cent in Minnesota, Karsas and Nebraska
In 40 state having 100000 acres or. up
wards in oats is there a reduced acreage.
except in Iowa. where the shrinkage is
too insignificant to call for comment The
average condition of oats is 917. against
SS.I on June l. 1889: 9S al the correspond
ing d5;c in 1898. and a ten-year average of
S9S. OF the states having 1.000, 600 acres
or upward in oats, illinois, Iowa, Kansas
and Nebraska report conditions g. g. 19
aud l6 points above their ten-year aver
ages. wtHe New York, PENNSYLVANIA,
Ohio Wisconsin. Indiana and Minnesota
report. J.. $, a.. 3 6 and 10 points, respec-
tve.y. below. the mean Of Their June aver
ges fp the last ten years.
l he ac.1ea sel Eenorts as under barley is
Is per gfeater than the AREA harvest
ed last year There is an increase of
pep cent in California and Kansas; Of 8
per cent in South Dako.a, and / per cent
IN New York On the other hand, there
Is decrease of 1 per cent in Wisconsin
and Iowa, and per cent.in North Da-
kota. with a very Slight reduction also in
minnesota. The average condition of bar
ley IS aG2. against 914 on June l. 1899;
I'-S at the corresponding date in 1898, and
TOW
averages are exceeded by 10 points in
Kansas and in Iowa while they are
fallen short of by points in Wisconsin
and South Dakota; in Minnesota; IL
in North Dakota, and In California. The
cohd ton In New York corresponds exact
~ with the states ten-year average.
The acreage under rye shows reduc-
ton of Al per cent from that harvested
last year. OF the two principal rye-grow
ing states. New York and PENNSYLVANIA.
the former shows a shrinkage of per
cent and the latter an increase Of 10
per cent the enlarged breadth in Penn
sylVania being accounted for by throwing
IN spring rye of some thousands of acres
sown last falI TO Winter Wheat and since
plowed up on account or Winter killing.
Wisconsin reports a decrease of 7 rer
cent; Kansas 10 per cent, and Iowa of II
per cent, these being the only other states
having 10000 acres or upward in rye The
average conultlOn OF rye is S16, as COM
pared with S4.5 on June l. 1899; 97.1 at
the corresponding date in 1898. and a ten
year average of 1919. The condition fig
ures in New York, Pennsylvania and wis
consin are s, u and points below the
respective ten-year averages. while in
Iowa they are Z points and in Kansas
z points above such averages
The acreage and condition of clover for
the country, as a whole, cannot be salts
factorily determined, but the changes in
the principal states have been reported
AS. regards acreage Michigan and Iowa
report an increase of per cent. and
Illinois of 10, while a decrease of ner
cent is reported from Pennsylvania: 9
per cent from Missouri: 10 per
cent from Minnesota; II per cent
from Wisconsin, and % per cent
from Indiana. AS to condition. almost all
the principal clover states fall consider
ably below their ten-year averages. Ohio
being % points below Indiana, 20; Wis
consin IS; Minnesota, q; Pennsylvania
"a; Illinois, Z; Missouri, 4, and Iowa /
below. Michigan, with 1 above, is a con-
spicuous exception to the rule
The reports as to peaches and apples~
are unusually favorable