The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-11
CONDITION OF TIE CROPS
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
BULLETIN REPORTING OUTLOOK
AS SHOWN MAY
WHEAT IS IN GOOD SHAPE
Stands at Percentage of 94.I,
Which Is 1913 Points Higher Thnn
the Average Condition
for Mag.

WASHINGTON, May 1O-Returns to
the statstician of the department Of ag-
rIoulture, made up to May l, show the
area under winter wheat in cultivation
on that date to have been about z8,26IC00
acres. This is 2,0150O0 acres, or 81 per
cent less than the areas sown last fall,
but 2O32000 acres. or ~ per cent in eX-
cess of the winter wheat acreage har-
vested last year OF the reduction about
one-haf is reported from Texas and Cal
ifornia, due in the former state to the
ravages Of the wheat plant louise and in
the latter to the cutting as is not unusual
in that state of q considerable acreage for
forage. In the states that had 1.CC0G0)
acres or upward sown last fall the fol-
lowing percentages are reported as aban-
doned or cut for forage:
Missouri, /; Kansas, /; Illinois, Is;
Pennsylvania, q Indiana, 2.5; Ohio, 80;
Tennessee, Al; Michigan, 9.6; Oklahoma,
20; California, is, and Texas, 42.4 For
the area remaining under cultivation the
average condition on May l was al.
While this average is 1915 points above
The mean of the May averages of the
last ten years and has not been exceeded
only three times in seventeen years, it
must be remembered that the acreage
plowed up for forage or otherwise
abandoned has been entirely eliminated.
In Kansas the wheat crop has held it's
own at the high average of 105, reported
April l, while an Improvement of points
is reported in Pennsylvania, Ohio ana
Indiana, in Illinois and Missouri. On
the other hand, Notwithstanding the
elimination in Texas and California of
so much Of the acreage as will not be
harvested, a decline is noted amounting
to points in the former state and "A in
the latter.
The average condition of winter rye
on May l was 94.6, as compared with 931
On April l, 1901; SIS on May /, 1903; $50
at the corresponding date in 1899, and S9.2
the mean Of the May averages of the last
ten years. The present condition is the
highest since 1891. Pennsylvania and
New York, with twO-fifths of|the total
winter rye acreage of the country, each
report a condition of 81, which CORE
spends with the ten-year average in NV
York but is points above such average
in Pennsylvania.
The average condition of meadow now
ing lands on May l, was 92.S, against 90.S
on May l, 1900; $40 at the corresponding
date in 1899, and 81 the mean of the May
averages of the last ten years
The average condition of spring pas
lures on May l was 80, against 91.3 on
May !, 1900 S3.5 at the corresponding
date in 1899 and 9O.S the mean of the May
averages Of the last ten years
VI Inc TOTAL dIlouHI OI spring pIOW HS
reported as contemplated it is estim lted
that only CO. per cent was actually done
up to May 1, the proportion usually
done 10y that date being about 10 per cent
If the whole. Only three times in the
last fifteen years has the per cent done
j.. May ! been as low as it is this year
OF the states having 100000 acres or
III yard to be plowed this spring only
North Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Ten
IL Sscc Tcpo~t the proportion actually
done up 10 May | as in excess of their
respective ten-year averages. The late
ness Of the season is especially marked
in New York, PENNSYLVANIA. Indiana,
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
report giving the estimated average
planted in Gotten with the condition ac-
cording to latest advlces will be issued
IN May 81.