The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-28
REPORT OF THE CROPS
Wheat Crop of 1900 Estimat-
ed at 522, ,229,506.
Corn Crop One Of the -Four Largest Ever Gath
cred. HAY Harvest One Of Smallest
on Record.
(By the Associated Press.)


Washington, Dec. 27.-The Statistician
of the Department of Agriculture esti-
mates the United States wheat crop of
1900 at 522, ,229, 500 bushels, the area actu-
ally harvested being A., 495, 1895 acres and
average yield per acre 1928 bushels. The
production of winter wheat is estimated
at 350,625,40 400 bushels and that of spring
wheat at 172, ,204 096 bushels, the area
actually being 1926, ,S97 acres in the form
er case and 16,259, ,488 acres in the lat
ter. The winter wheat acreage totally
abandoned in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and
Illinois is finally placed at 3,522, 7S7 acres
and the spring wheat acreage totally
abandoned in North Dakota and South
Dakota at ], 1885, SCI acres. The extraor-
dinarily rapid rate at which the winter
average of Nebraska is gaining upon the
spring wheat average of that State has
necessitated a special investigation of the
relative extent to which the two varie-
ties 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 new seeded area Of winter wheat is
estimated at 30,282564 acres. While this
acreage is slightly greater than that
sown in the fall of 1899 as estimated at
the time, it is 900 654 acres less than the
area that was actually sown, the dis
crepancy being due to remarkably rapid
development of winter wheat growing in
Nebraska with which, as above stated, the
Department reports had failed to keep
pace. comparison of the newly seeded
acreage with that of the fall of 1899
shows that of the eleven States and Ter
ritories that sowed one million acres or
upward with winter wheat one year ago,
Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, Califor-
MIA and Oklahoma report an increase
amounting to 971, 709 acres, and Ohio
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Texas and
Tennessee a decrease of 1880, ,191 acres
The average condition of the growing crop
on December 1st was 971 per cent of the
normal. There are many complaints of
the Hessian fly, but low condition figures
reported from Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky
and Tennessee &c. 80, 81 and 81, respec-
lively, are fully Offset by the exceptional
ly high condition reported from Kansas,
Missouri, California, Oklahoma and other
States, in all of which it is above nor
NAL.
The production of corn in 1900 is csti-
mated at 2105, ,1O2.516 bushels; oa S, S09,-
123969 bushels; barley, $685., 1913 bushels;
rye, 1885, ,927 bushels; bucl1wheat, 1866
966 bushels potatoes, 0.926, S97 bushels
and hay, so, 900 tons. The area from
which these crops were gathered was
as follows in acres:
Germ. S3.320,7S2; oats, 27.364, 795; barley
2,S94, ,2S2; rye / 1,991 1926; buchwheat 637 i.
$50; potatoes. 2,611,O54, and hay, 39,1S2,.
$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 1887; the buckwheat crop
is the smallest since 1883 and the hay
crop the smallest with one exception since
1880.