Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-28
THE CROPS OF THE YEAR.
Estimates of Statiatician Hyde of the
Agricultural Department..

John Hyde the statistician of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture. estimates the United
States wheat crop of 1900 al 80. G29, so.
bushels, the area actually harvested being
A., 495, 1886 acres and the average yield pc
acre 30 bushels. The production of VII
ter wheat IS estimated at $50. o25 400 bush
els and that of spring wheat at 2,2O4,U9u
bushels, the area actually harvested being
2S, 235, S97 acres in the former case and 49,,
25s, 4SS acres in the latter. The winter
wheat acreage totally abandoned in Ohio,
Michigan. Indiana and Illinois Is finally
placed at 8, 1877 acres. and the spring
wheat acreage totally abandoned in North
Dakota and South Dakota at !. 1888 467 acres.
The extra ordinarily rapid rate at which the
winter wheat acreage of Nebraska is gam
ing upon the spring wheat acreage of that
state has necessitated a special invesuga-
ton Of the relative extent to which the two
varieties were grown during the past year.
The result of the investigation is that while
no change is called for in the total wheat
figures of the state 590,575 acres have been
added to the winter wheat column at the
expense of the spring variety.
The newly seeded area of winter wheat
is estimated ut 30, 2S2. 564 acres. While this
acreage Is slightly greater than that sown
in the fall of 1899 estimated at the time,
it Is 6O0,654 acres less than the area THAI
was actually sown, the discrepancy being
winter wheat growing in Nebraska, with
which, as above stated, the departments
reports had failed to keep pace. A COM
parison Of the newly-seeded acreage with
that of the fall of 1899 shows that of the
eleven states and terri tories that sow one
million acres CT upward with winter wheat
one year ago. Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kan
sas, California and Oklahoma report an in
crease amounting to 971 ,10 acres and Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Texas and Ten
nessee a decrease OF 1,7S0. 191 acres. The
average condition of the growing crop on
December l was 97.1 per cent of the nor
NAL. There are many complaints of the
Hessian fly, but the low condition figures
reported from Ohio Michigan. Kentucky
and Tennessee &C. 80 81 and "a. respective
ly, are fully offset by the exceptionally high
condition reported from Kansas, Missouri.
California Oklahoma and other states, in
all of which it Is above normal.
The production of corn in 1900 is estimated
at 2.105, 1886 bushels: oats, 800. 123,9 67
bushels: barley, 1925. S33 bushels: rye. 23.
995, 927 bushels, buckwheat $3.50, 966 BUSH
els: potatoes, 30 926, S97 bushels. and hay,
80, 9O6 tons. The area from which these
crops were gathered was as follows: Corn.
s., 800 1872: OATS p 1864, 795: barley. 1854 ,2S2:
rye. 1851, 1926: huckwheat 6S7 $50: potatoes,
261LO54, and hay. 80, 1S2. $50.
The corn crop of 1900 was one of the four
largest ever gathered, while the oat crop
has only once been exceeded. On the other
hand the barley and rye crops are the
smallest. with one exception in each case.
since 1897 The buckwheat crop Is the
smallest since 1889. and the hay crop the
smallest, with one exception. since 1883.