The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-05-17
Wheat Prospects Said to Be Better
Than at Any Similar
Time In Ten Years.
The WINTER RYE CROP WILL Be HEAVY.
s,~,rr Pl.wtns Has Deen
Delayed In Many stnses' ""'"s =
the Latencss Of the se"s"s'-spr'n
Pastures are Generally In ~"oS
Condition.

WASHINGTON, MhN
the statistician Of the department. %
agriculture, made up TO May l. snow
the ore, under winter wheat in cuiti-
,ation on that date to have peeh
about 2s.ce.. 200 acres. This Is @'oio'-
600 acres. or 6.7 per cent. less than inc
area sown last fall. but 2,032.0oo acres
or ~ per cent, in excess OF the WI.
ter-wheat acreage harvested iass
wear. Oh the reduction, ABOUT one
half is reported from Texas n .an-
fornia. due in the former state TO the
ravares of the wheat plant louise anu
in the latter to the cutting, as Is not
unusual in that state, of u CONSIDERS
Die acreage for forage.
Abandoned or Cut for Forage
In states that had 100000 acres or
inward sown last fall, the following
percentages are reported as aoah-
Toned or cut for forage: Missouri, A.
Kansas. 1: Illinois. 10; Pennsylvania,
!; Indiana. 2.5; Ohio. 3.2; tennessee
~; Michipeu. &c; oklahoma, l2.5;
California. Is. and Texas, 42.4.
For the area remaining under u
.ivation the average condition on May
was 94.1. While this average IS lo.o
,oints above the mean of the May
averages OF the last ten years, ana
las been exceeded only three lines IN
7 Years. il must he remembered that
the acreage plowed up, cut for forage
or otherwise abandoned has been en-
tirely eliminated.
Kansas Crop Improving.
In Kansas the wheat crop has held
It's own at the high average. 100, re-
ported April /, while an improvement
i reported of five points in Pennsyl-
yania. Ohio and Indiana, S in Illinois
ana 4 in Missouri.
On the other hand. notwithstand-
inc the elimination in Texas and Cali
fornia OF so much of the acreage as
will not be harvested, a decline is not
cd amounting to 4 points in the form
er state and II points in the latter.
phenomenal Rye Crop Promised.
The average condition of winter
rye on May / was 40. as comparea
with o3.1 on April /. 1901; $50 on May
l., 1900: So at the corresponding date
In 1895. and s5.2, the meal of the May
of the last ten years.
The present condition is the high
st since 1891. Pennsylvania and New
FORK. with two-fifths of the total win
.er rye acreage of the country. eacl
.eport a condition of "a. which CORE
spends with the ten-year average il
New York. but is 4 points above sucl
average ii Pennsylvania.
Meadows and Pastures.
The average condition of meadow
moving lands on May l was 81
against 90.s on May !, 1000. $40 at til
corresponding date in 1899 and 81
he mean OF the May averages OF III
last ten years.
The average condition of sprin
pastures on May ! was 9i.j. agains
). ri.3 on May /. 1900: s3.5 at the CORE
/, snonding date in 1899 and o0.s, tn
! mean Of the May average of the las
! ten years.
spring Flowing Delayed.
Of the total amount of spring plov
ny reported as contemplated. it is e
timated that only Cos per cent. ";
> actually done up 10 May i. the pr
portion usually done by that date b
ing about % per cent. of the Who'll
Only three times in the last Is yea
has the percentage done by May
= been as low as il is this year.
OF the states having 1000. 900 acr
Or upward to he plowed this sprin
only North Carolina, Georgia, A
J. bamn. Mississippi. Louisiana and A
h kansas report the proportion actu'
" done up to May ! as in excess
a heir respective ten-year averag'
v Rae l~atcress of the season is especil
% ly marked in New York, Pennsya'
>. mia. Indiana. Minnesota, Iowa, kans
is and Nebraska.
= a report giving the estimated &C
m aye planted in cotton. with the con
re tion according to the latest advic
will be issued on May II.
/, FIRE AT WILMINGTON, N.
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