Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-03
REPORTS ON CROPS or 1900.
Figures of Department of Agriculture
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The statistician of the Department OF
Agriculture estimates the United States
wheat crop of 1900 at 522,229, 800 bush
els. the area actually harvested being a.
4e5. 3S5 acres. and the average yield per
mere 1929 bushels. The production OF
winter wheat is estimated at 3oO,Ozo,4o9
bushels and that of spring wheat at 20
2O4 .O96 bushels, the area actually mar
vested being 26,235, S97 acres in the Tor
mer case and 1928, 4SS acres in the lat-
ter.
The winter wheat acreage totally aban.
doned in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana anu ..
illinois is finally placed at 3,o22,lo1
acres and the spring wheat acreage total
~ abandoned in North Dakota ana oouth
Dakota at 1,793,467 acres. The extra
ordinarily rapid rate at which the winter
wheat acreage of Nebraska is gaming up
on the spring wheat acreage OF lhat otale
has necessitated a special investigator
Of fhe relative extent to which the TWO
varieties were grown during the last year.
The result of the investigation is that,
while no change is called for IN the totai
wheat figures of the tate, 59O,olo acres
have been added to the winter wheat COZ
umn at the expense of the spring warn
ETY..
The newly seeded area of winter wheat
is estimated at 3O,282,56 acres. WINE
this acreage is slightly greater tban lhal
sown in the fall of 1899, as estlmateu
at the time, it is 600,654 acres less tnah
the area that was actually sown, the dls-
crepancy being due to that remarkably
rapid development Of winter wheat grow
ing in Nebraska with which las above
stated, the department. reports had fall-
ed to keep pace.
A comparison Of the newly seeoeu
acreage with that of the fall of 1893
shows that Of the eleven States and ter
ritories that sowed 1, 100000 acres or up
ward with winter wheat one year ago,
Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, Califor-
mia and Oklahoma report an increase
amounting to 971,7O acres, and ONO,
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Texas ana
Tennessee decrease of l,1SO,l9l acres.
The average condition Of the growing
crop on Dec / was GIL per cent OF the
normal. There, are many complaints OF
the Hessian fly, but the low-condltlon
figures reported from Ohio, Michigan,
Kentucky and Tennessee-S6.SO 81 and
"a, respectively-ar fully offset by the
exceptionally high condition reported
from Kansas, Missouri, California, Ok
lahoma and other States, in all Of which
it is above normal.
The production Of corn in 1900 is estt'
mated at 2,1O5, 1O2,516 bushels; oats,
800, 1859 bushels; barley, 5S,925,S 1913;
rye, 23,905,927 bushels; buckwheat, .,
566,966 bushels; potatoes, 21O,926, 99'
,, bushels, and hay, 50,110,9O6 tons. The
area from which these crops were gath
cred was as follows, in acres: Corn, SO,
32O,872; oats, 27,364, 795; barley, 1884,
2S2; rye, 1851, 1876; buckwheat, 637, $50;
potatoes, 2,611,054 and hay, 39,132, $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 1888, and the hay
crop the smallest, with one exception,
since 1888.