The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-12
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT
THE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION RE
G4RDING WINTER WHEAT
Agricultural Departments Estimate of
the Area Under Cultivation Further
Reduced by i,G76, 900 Acres.

| Washington, June 1.-THE monthly
report of the statistician 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 Gull
tivation has been further reduced by
1,676000 acres, the area abandoned, in
addition to that announced on May 10,
comprising 1000 acres in Ohio $4,000
acres in Michigan, 100000 acres in In
diana, 34S, 900 acres in Illinois and 44S,-
900 acres in California. This brings the
area in winter wheat remaining under
cultivation on June / down to 24,9OS,O 600
acres, a reduction from the area soWn
in the fall of 5,240,000 acres. NotW1th-
standing this further reduction of acre
age by the elimination of all land en-
tirely abandoned, the condition of Win
ter wheat declined during May 6,2
points, the condition June ] being 81. l.
against $3.50 on May /, 67.3 on June /,
1899, 90.S on the corresponding date in
| 1898 and a ten-year average of 80.I.
| Preliminary reports on the spring
wheat acreage indicate q reduction of
about $4,000 acres, or 80 per cent. Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Oregon report a
reduction of per cent, North Dakota
and Nebraska of per cent. and Iowa
of per cent. In South Dakota and
Washington there is an increase of one
per cent.
| The average condition of spring wheat
on June l was 1913, as compared with
ola on June /, 1899, 1909 at the CORE
spending date in 1898 and ten-year
average Of SO. Minnesota falls 10, North
| Dakota II, South Dakota II and Wis
consn points below their respective
| ten-year averages On the other hand.
| the ten-yearf averages are exceeded In
| Nebraska Iowa, Oregon and Washing
| ton by Is, IA and points, respectively
| The total reported acreage in oats eX-
ceeds the acreage harvested last year
by $50 per cent. There is an Increase of
16 per cent. in Ohio, % per cent in In
diana, per cent. in New York, per
cent. in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
and / per cent. in Minnesota, Kansas
and Nebraska. In no state having one
million acres or upwards In oats is
there a reduced acreage, except in Iowa,
where the shrinkage is insignificant.
The average condition of oats is 917,
against SS.7 on June 1, 1899, 9S at the
corresponding date In 1898 and ten
year average of $685. OF the states hav
ing one million acres or upwards in
cats, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Neb-
raska report conditions 6, 6, 10 and 16
points above their tenyear averages,
while New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota re-
port |, s, a. 2, 6 and 10 points, respec-
lively, below the mean of their June
averages for the last ten years
The acreage reported as under barley
is six-tenths of one per cent. greater
than the area harvested last year.
There Is an increase of per cent. in
California and Kansas, of per cent. In
South Dakota and of 1 per cent. in New
York On the other hand, there is
decrease of 4 per cent in Wisconsin
and Iowa and of l per cent, IN North
Dakota, and very slight reduction
also in Minnesota.
The average condition of barley is
at the corresponding date in 1898 and a
ten-year average OF S8.5, The tenyear
averages are exceeded by 10 points in
Kansas and in Iowa, while they are
fallen short of by points in Wisconsin
and South Dakota, I in Minnesota, 10
in North Dakota and in California
The condition in New York corresponds
exactly with the states ten-year aver
age
The acreage under rye shows a reduc-
tion of Al per cent. from that harvest
ed last year. OF the two principal rye
growing states, New York and Penn
sylvania, the former shows a shrnkage
of per cent. and the latter an increase
of 10 per cent, the enlarged breadth in
Pennsylvania being accounted for by
the sowing in spring rye of some thou
sands of acres sown last fall to winter
wheat and since plowed up on account
lof winter killing Wisconsin reports
decrease of 7 per cent, Kansas 10 per
cent. and Iowa II per cent, these being
the only other states having 100000
acres or upward in rye.
The average condition of rye Is S7.6,
as compared with S45 on June 1, 1899,
97.1 at the corresponding date in 1898,
and a ten-year average of 1919. The
condition figures in New York. Penn
syvania and Wisconsin are 5, IL and
points below the respective ten-year
averages, while in Iowa they are
points and in Kansas % points above
such averages
The acreage and condition for clover
for the country, as a whole, cannot be
satisfactorily 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 per cent.
while decrease of A per cent is report
ed from Pennsylvania, of 8 per cent
from Missouri. 10 per cent from Mime
sofa, II per cent. from Wisconsin, q
per cent. from Ohio and % per cent |
from Indiana. AS to condition, almost |
all the principal clover states fall con-
sderably below their ten-year averages,
Ohio being 80 points below Indiana 20,
Wisconsin 49, Minnesota 27, Pennsylva-
MIA "a, Illinois 8, Missouri and Ohio !
II. Michigan, with one above, is a con-
spicuous exception to the rule
The reports as to peaches and apples
are unusually favorable.
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