The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-12
CROP CONDITIONS.
Indications for a Less Acreage in
Wheat Than the Year 1880.
PEACHES VERY FAVORABLE.
There WIN be Average Crops Of Rye,
Oats and Barley in the Majority
Of states-clover Falls Consider
ably Below the Ten Year Averages.

wAsHINGToN.JunO 1.-THE month
" report of the statlStlcian of the de-
par,ment of agriculture states that as a
result of n special investigation relative
to the winter wheat acreage plOwed up
or cut for forage, the departments es-
innate of the area remaining under cul-
tIvation has been further reduced by
l,C75COO acres, the area abandoned in
addition to that announced May 10.
comprising $4,000 acres in Ohio. 10000
acres in Michigan, 100000 acres in In
diana, $4,000 acres in Illinois and 49,
900 acres In California, This brings the
arpl in winter wheat remaining under
cultivation on June / down to 24,9OSOOO
acres, reduction from the area sown
in the fall of $4,000 acres. Notwlth-
standing this further reduction of acre
age by the elimination OF all land en-
tlrely abandoned, the condition of win
ter wheat declined during May 81
points, the condition on juno being
SCI, against $50 on May /, 67.3 on June
!, 1889. 9O.S at the corresponding date in
1898, and a ten year average of sO.7.
Reduction In Wheat Acreage.
Preliminary reports on the spring
wheat acreage indicates reduction OF
about $4,000 acres or 90 per cent. Min
ncsota, Wisconsin and Oregon report
reduction of per cent. North Dakota
and Nebraska OF per cent and Iowa of
6 per cent. In South Dakota ami Wash
!ngton there is an increase of 1 per cent.
The average condition OF spring
wheat on June !, was aI.3 as
compared with ola on June l, 1899. 1908
at the corresponding date in 1925. and a
ten year average of %. Minnesota falls
10; North Dakota II; South Dakota II
and Wisconsin 0 points below their re-
spectiva ten year averages. On the
other hand, the ten year averages are
exceeded in Nebraska, Iowa, oregon and
Washington by 10. /. and points re-
spectlvely.
Oats Crop Will be Large.
The total reported acreage in oats ex.
ceeds the acreage harvested last year
by 80 per cent, There is an increase OF
IS per cent In Ohio, IS per cent in Indi-
ana: per cent in New York; per cent
in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and l
per cent in Minnesota, Kansas and Ne
braska. In no state having 100000
acres or upwards in oats is there re-
duced acreage. except in Iowa. where
the shrinkage is too insignificant to call
for comment.
The average condition Of oats is 91.7,
against SS7 on June /, 1899, IS at the
corresponding date in 1898, and ten
year average Of S9,s. or the states
having 100000 acres or upward in oats,
Illinois, Iowa. Kansas and Nebraska re-
port conditions 6, 6, 10 and lG points
above their ten year averages, while
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Minnesota report 1, $, IA, 2, q and 10
points respectively below the mean of
their June averages for the last ten
years.
Barley Will be Less Than in 1899.
The acreage reported under barley is
slx-tenths OF one per cent greater than
the area harvested last year. There is
an increase of 4 per cent in California
and Kansas, OF per cent in South Da-
ko,a and OIL per cent. in New York. On
the other hand. there Is a decrease OF 1
per cent in Wisconsin and Iowa and of
per cent in North Dakota, with very
slight reduction also in Minnesota.
The average condition OF barley is
S6.2, against 9l.4 on June /. 1899, 1873 at
the corresponding date In 1898 and ten
year average of $50 The ten year
averages are exceeded by 10 points in
Kansas and in Iowa, while th2y are
fallen short of by points in WIscon.
sin and South Dakota, in Minnesota,
10 in North Dakota and in California,
The condition In New York corresponds
exactly with the states ten year aver
age.
A shrinkags in Rye.
The acreage under rye shows a re-
ductlon of Al per cent from that har-
vested last year. OF the two principal
rye growing states. New York and
Pennsylvania. the former shows
shrInkage OF Z per cent and ;he latter
an Increase OF 10 per cent, the enlarged
breadth in Pennsylvania being account
ed for by the sowing In spring rye Of
come thousands Of acres sown last fall
to winter wheat and sincs plowed up on
account of the winter killing Wiscon-