Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-05-16
OFFICIAL CROP REPORT
Wheat Prospects Said to Be Better
Than at Any Similar
Time In Ten Years.
THE WINTER RYE CROP WILL Be HEAVY.
sprin< Flowing Has Been Seriously
Delayed in Many States. Owing TO
the Lateness of the Senson-Sprtna
Pastures are Generally I'm Good
Condition.

the statistician of the department OF
agriculture, made up to May 1, show
the area under winter wheat in Guilt
yation on that date to have been
about 23.2e7, 900 acres. This is 2,015,-
900 acres. or 81 per cent. less than the
area sown last fall, but 2,032,0O0 acres,
or IT. per cent, in excess of b win
ter-wheat acreage harvested last
year. OF the reduction, about one
half is reported from Texas and Cali
fornia, due in the former state to the
avages of the wheat plant louise and
in the latter to the cutting, as is not
unusual in that state, of a considera-
BILE acreage for forage.
or Cut for Forage.
In states that had 1000, 600 acres or
upward sown last fall, the following
percentages are reported as ADAM
doned or cut for forage: Missouri, 1;
Kansas, 1; Illinois. 10; Pennsylvania,
2; Indiana, 2.5; Ohio, 81; Tennessee,
Az: Michigen, 90; Oklahoma, 1875;
California, Is, and Texas, 42.4.
For the area remaining under cul-
tivation the average condition on May
j WAS St.ls Willie GAIS NO1dSC h AO"o
points above the mean of the May
averages OF the last ten years, and
has been exceeded only three times in
II years, it must be remembered that
the acreage plowed up, u for forage
or otherwise abandoned has been en-
tirely eliminated.
Kansas Crop Improving.
In Kansas the wheat crop has held
its own at the high average, los, re-
ported April 1, while an improvement
is reported of five points in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Indiana, 8 in Illinois
and 4 in Missouri.
On the other hand, notwithstand-
ing 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 IA points in the latter.
Phenomenal Rye Crop Promised.
The average condition of winter
rye on May 1 was 94.6, as compared
with 93.1 on April 1, 1901; ss.5 OF May
/, 1900; S5.2 at the corresponding date
in 1899, and ss.2, the mean of the May
averages. of the last ten years.
The present condition is the high
est since 1891. Pennsylvania and New
York, with two-fifths of the total win
ter rye acreage of the country, each
report a condition of "a, which CORE
spends with the ten-year average in
New York, but is 4 points above such
average in Pennsylvania.
d and Pastures.
u6o or.ro~a aonJi4ion ~ n,oa4o~
moving lands on May 1 was 92.6,
against CO.'S on May L, 1900, $40 at the
corresponding date in 1899 and GIL,
the mean OF the May averages of the
last ten years.
The average condition of spring
pastures on May 1 was 91.5, against
e1.3 on May 1, 1900; s3.5 at the CORE
spending date in 1899 and COS, the
mean of the May average of the last
ten years.
Spring Flowing Delayed.
Of the total amount of spring plow-
ing reported as contemplated, it is es-
timated that only 66.3 per cent. vas
actually done up to May 1, the pro-
portion usually done by that date be-
ing about as per cent. of the whole.
Only three times in the last Is years
has the percentage done by May L
been as low as it is this year.
OF the states having 100000 acres
or upward to be plowed this spring,
only North Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Ar
kansas report the proportion actual
ly done up to May 1 as in excess of
-
The ~Iateress of the season is especial
Nv marked in New York, Pennsylva-
MIA. Indiana, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas
and Nebraska.
a report giving the estimated acre
age planted in cotton, with the condi-
ton according to the latest advices,