The evening times., 1900-10-11
CONDITION OF CROPS.
Monthly Report of the Agricultural
Department statisticiun

The monthly report of the Statistician OF
average condition of corn on October l TO
have been 1872. as compared with sos last
month. -S2.T on October /, 1889; So at the
corresponding date in 1898, and 81. the
mean of the October averages of the last
ten years. While the decline during Sep
tember was not serious, il extended to
almost every important corn-g growing
State, the crops of Ohio Missouri. Ne
braska. and Virginia alone holding their
own. There was a decline of l point in
Indiana, points in Illinois, Kansas, and
Texas, and points in Iowa
The preliminary estimate of the Weld
per acre of oats is 29.6 bushels, as COM
pared with 30.7 bushels last year, 27S
bushels IN 1888, and ten-year average of
26.2 bushels. Of the States having one
million acres or upward in oats, Ohio and
Illinois show an average yield per acre of
IS bushels, Iowa 81 bushels, Indiana 81 I.
Wisconsin 81, Kansas 31.6, Pennsylvania
211 New York 27.9 Minnesota 252 and
Nebraska 21.6 bushels. The average for
quality is S9,2, against $50 last year, and
s33 in 1898.
The preliminary estimate of the yield
per acre Of barley is 20.4 bushels, as COM
pared with 25.5 bushels last year, = s
bushels in 1898. and a ten-year aTers ge
of 23.3 bushels. The present indicated
yield is the lowest. with enc execution.
since 1887. 1t is due mainly to the I1w
yield of 16.7 bushels per acre in Califor-
MIA, which is Is bushels per acre below
that States ten-year average. IN New
York the indicated yield per acre y
bushels, corresponds almost exactly to
the ten-year average, while the yields in
Iowa and Kansas are somewhat above.
and those of Wisconsin and II nnesota
somewhat below the respective ten-year
averages The average for quality is s..
against SS-4 last year, and 9e.6 in 1898
The preliminary estimate of The yield
per acre OF rye is Isl bushels, as com
pared with 14.4 bushels last year. 1916
bushels in 1898, and a ten-year average
OF IA bushels. The average fer guilty is
", against 90 last year, and 90.2 in 1898
The average condition Of tuckwheat on
October was T2-S, as compared with so )
last month, 70-2 on October /. 1859, &c. .
at the corresponding date in 1898. and
S2-2, the mean of the October averages for
the last ten years. There has tesn a de-
cline during the month in New York and
Pennsylvania, the States CT DrincipaI
production, Of 10 points and s points re-
spectivcIy-
The average condition Of potatoes on De-
toDeT / was IA, as compared with so last
LiSAbI- OIL Cu OCTOBER l, 1879, 10 at the
corresponding date in 1898, and ten-year
average of 74.1..
In the condition of tobacco there has
been decline of / point in Kentucky 2
points in North Carolina, and points in
Virginia. Maryland, and Missouri; oh:o
and Wisconsin reporting an Improvement
OF 3 points and 4 points respectively,
while IN Tennessee and Pennsylvania there
is no appreciable change.
The sugar cane n-1To of
taiHs its high condition of last month 1G1
In all the other States in which this prod
uct Is raised on any commercial scale there
has been an impairment of condition since
September /, except in Alabama and Mis-
sissiPPi, where the crop has about held its
own.
There has been a general decline in the
condition of apples but in many of the
principal apple growing States the eondi-
ton is still considerably above the ten
year average and in none of them except
Indiana and Kentucky, is it much below.
decline in the condition of rice is
everywhere reported but in Louisiana,
the State of principal production, the con-
dition is still exceptionally high being
1C6. or 13 points above the average
The estimated average yield of hops, in
pounds per acre, is 1850 in Washington,
1, 120 in Oregon, LEO in California and
595 in New York. In the two frst-men-
toned the yield is slightly below and in
the two aforementioned slightly above the
average of a series of years.
No further report on wheat viii be is
sued pending the receipt of the annual
returns of individual producers and the
final reports of the Departments special
agents.
CeurfeousIy Welcomed.
(Ffom the Philadelphia PresS)
Toni paid visit to Miss Sweety's house
vesfprsIa.- and faiipd ~, rlsu home