New-York tribune., 1900-04-11
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
REPORTS TO THE AGRICULTURAL DEPART
MENT AND THE WEATHER BUREAU.

Washington. April 1O--The April report of the
statistician of the Department of Agriculture Will
show the average condition of winter wheat on
April l to have been s21 against 10 on April l.
1899: $751; April l. 1898. and ten year average or
S2S While the ravages Of the Hessan fly in Ohio
Michigan and Indiana will probably result in not
one of these States producing more than half a
crop, exceptionally high condition is reported
from the winter wheat States OF the Missis-
sippi River and from. the Pacific Coast The prtn-
cpaI averages are as follows: Pennsylvania p;
Ohio. Al; Michigan. 81; Indiana, 81; Illinois, ss Mis-
souri,, 81; Kansas. 80; Texas. 10l; Oklahoma, 80;
Washington. 1O6; Oregon. 100, and California. 90.
The average condition of winter rye is S4.s
against $40 April 1. 1ss9 921 April l. 1895 and
a ten year average of sci.
The Weather Bureau has issued the following
summary of crop conditions:
The general absence of rain. with mild temper
ature conditions over the northern districts from
Montana and Wyoming eastward to the Atlantic
Mississippi valley. favorable for farming oper-
we lake reon %e ane nd
the northern portion of the last
for best results in the South Atlantic and Gulf
in Texas The week has also been abnorInally cool
where more or less damaging frosts have occurred.
Frosts also occurred far south as the Carolinas.
terial damage, except in the Caroinas
planting is unusnay aaI Me snd is Pr
ceeding rapidly planting being nearly finished in
Oklahoma and Southern Kansas, the early planted
being up as far north as the southern portions of
Missouri and Kansas. Some corn has been planted
in Southern Illinois and Tennessee and North Caro-
lima but has been planted further nOrthward
in the districts of the Mississippi Poor stands
sippi. good stands being reported from Alabama
and Texas. In the last named State. however
much damage has been done by washing rains.
Very unfavorabe reports as to winter wheat are
vania and New York. In Indiana and Ohio much
will be ploughed up for other crops and in Eastern
Kansas and Illinois it is suffering for rain. In
Nebraska Kansas and Missouri and from Okla
sppi valley to the Atlantic Coast the condition Of
winter wheat is very promising. Tennessee report
ing the best prospect in years On the Pacific
Coast the condition of winter wheat is generally
excellent except in Southern California. Spring
wheat seeding is in general progress, and is nearly
completed over the southern portion Of the spring
wheat region.
= Oat seeding is well advanced In the central val
leys, and is in progress in the Atlantic Coast dis
tricts far north Pennsylvania. The condition
OF crop in the South Atlantic and Central Gulf
States is very poor, but elsewhere is generally
promising.
Cotton planting is general over the southern
portion of the cotton belt, and some has been done
in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Planting is well ad-
tons for planting have been made throughout the
cotton region.
The general outlook for fruit is encoura gng al
though injury from frosts is reported from some
sections.
Statistician Brown Of the New-York Produce Ex-
change figures the condition and acreage : in
dicating winter wheat crop of 100000 bushels.
This compares with actual harvest of winter
wheat last year Of 296679 .5S6 bushels; in 1898 of
379 S13 291 1881 S32 7Ol 105 bushels on December
l. 1899, the estimated yield was 4ISS55,GOO bushels.