Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-05-11
.FIGURESON THE CROPS
Winter Wheat Cultivated May on
an Aggregate of "a, $4,000
Acres in this Country.
ITS AVERAGE CONDITION WAS 94.1,
Which Is 1915 Points Above the Ten.
Year Average-Rye, Meadows
and Pastures.

Washington. May 11.-RetufnS TO
the Statistician of the department of
agriculture made up to May l show
the area under winter wheat in cul-
tivation on that date to have been
about 2S,267 600 acres. This is 2.O1J,-
600 acres, or 60 per cent. less than the
area sown last fall, but 2,032, 900 acres,
or "a per cent in excess of the winter
wheat acreage harvested last year. OF
the reduction, about One-half is re-
ported from Texas and California, due
in the former state to the ravages of
the wheat plant louise. and in the lat
tel TO the cutting, as is not unusual i'll
that state, of considerable acreage
for forage.
Percentage of Area Abandoned.
In the states that had 100000 acres
or upward sown last fall the following
percentages are reported as abandoned
or cut for forage: Missouri. l; Kan
sas. l; Illinois, 10; Pennsylvania, =;
Indiana, -: Ohio, b; Tennessee, A.; !;
Michigan. go: Oklahoma. 12.5; Cali
fornia, IS, and Texas, 42.4.
Average Condition of the Crop.
For the area remaining under cul-
tivation the average condition on May
l was OIL. While this average is 100
points above the mean of the May
averages of the last ten years. and has
been exceeded only three times in sew
cnteen years, ii must be remembered
that the acreage plowed up, cut for
forage or otherwise abandoned has
been entirely eliminated.
Conditions in Different States.
In Kansas the wheat crop has held
its own at the high average of 100, re
ported April l. while an Improvement
il reported of > points in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana; 3 i'm Illinois,
and in Missouri. ON the other hand.
Notwithstanding the elimination in
Texas and California of so much of the
acreage as will not be harvested. Il
decline is noted amounting to points
in the former state and Ii i'll the lat
ter.
Some Figures on Winter Rye.
The average condition of winter rye
on May l was 94.6. aS compared with
93.1 on April l, 1901; $50 on May l.
1900: SD at the corresponding date ill
1899. and 500, 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 reports
condition of "a. which corresponds
York. but is points above such aver
age in Pennsylvania.
Meadows and Spring Pastures
The average condition of meadow
moving lands on May l WIS DPS,
against 9O.S on May l, 1900; $40 at
the corresponding date in 1899. and
oil, the mean of the May averages
of the last ten years. The average
condition of spring pastures on May 1
was 91.5. against 91.3 on May 1, 1900;
SD ut the corresponding date in 1899,
and 90.S. the mean of the May aver
ages of the last ten years.
Situation as to Spring Plans.
OF the total amount of spring plow-
ing reported as contemplated, it is
estimated that only 66.3 per cent. was
actually done up to May /, the proper
ton usually done by that date being
about - per cent. of the whole. Only
three times in the last fifteen years
has the percentage done by May 1
been as low as il is this year.