The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-11
REPORT ON WHEAT CROP.
Statistics Issued by Department of
 Agriculture,

WASHINGTON. May 1O-Returns to the Statistician of the Department of Az riculture. made up to May 1. show the area under Winter wheat cultivation on that date to have been about 2S 267, ,O00 acres. This is 2.0l5.0OO acres, or 67 per cent. less than the area sown last Fall, but 2.032.0oo acres, or - per cent. in ex- cess of the Winter wheat acreage har- vested last year. Of the reduction, about one-half is reported from Texas and Cali. fornia. due in the former State to the ravages of the wheat plant louse and in the latter to the cutting, IS is no. un- usual in that State. of a considerable acreage for forage. In the States that had one million acres or upward sown last Fall the following percentages are reported as abandoned or cut for forage; Missouri. l; Kansas, l; Illinois, 1.9; Penn sylvania, 2; Indiana, 2.5; Ohio. 3.2; Ten nessee. AT; Michigan, s.6; Oklahoma, 125; California. IS; Texas, 42.4 For the area remaining under cultivation the average condition on May 1 was 941 While this average is 10.5 points above the mean of the May averages of the last ten years and has been exceeded only three times in seventeen years, 1t must be remembered that the acreage plowed up, cut for for age or otherwise abandoned ha" been en- tirely eliminated In Kansas the wheat crop has held it's own at the high aver age Q05I reported April l. while an im- provement is reported of points in Penn sylvania, Ohio and Indiana, in 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. a decline is noted amounting to points in the former State and 14 in the latter
 The average condition of Winter rye on May was 94.6 as compared with 93.l on April 1, 1901. SS5 on May l. 1900 S52 at the corresponding date in 1899 and S9.2. the mean of May averages of the last ten years. The present condition is the highest since 1891.
 The average condition of meadow now ing lands on May was 92.S against 90 8 on May l. 19O0. M.9 at the corresponding date in 1899 and 91.1 the mean of the May averages for the last ten years.
 The average condition of Spring pas lures on May 1 was 91.5 against 9l.3 on May 1, 1860. S3.5 at the corresponding date in 1899 and 90.S the mean of the May aV- erages of the last ten years.
 Of the total amount of Spring blowing reported as contemplated, 1t Is estimated that only 66.3 per cent. was actually done up to May l, the proportion usually done by that date being about G5 per cent. of the whole. Only three times in the last fifteen years has the percentage done by May been as low as it Is this year Of the States having one million acres or up- ward to be powed this Spring, only North Carolina, Georgia. Alabama Mis- ,sissippi, Louisiana. Arkansas and TenneS- see report the proportion actually done uD to May 1 as in excess of their reSpec- tive ten-year averages. The lateness of the season is specially marked in New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Minnesota. Iowa. aKnsas and Nebraska. A report giving the estimated acreage planted in cotton. with the condition according to the latest advices will be issued on May 2l