The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-01-03
REPORT OF CROPS.
Wheat Crop OF 1900 Estimated at
52l,219,5O6 Bushels.
LARGEST CROPS YET ON RECORD.
The Corn Crop Was the Heaviest
Ever Gathered--Fiay Production a
Failure.

Washington, D. c., Spacial.-The
Statistician Of the Department OF
Agriculture estimates the United
States wheat crop Of 1900 at 522, ,229 sos
bushels, the area actually harvested
being 42,495,395 acres and average
yield per acre 1929 bushels. The pro-
duction of winter wheat is estimated
at $50, OPS, ,409 bushels and that Of
spring wheat at 172, 2,2O4,O96 bushels, the
area actually being 26,235 acres in the
former case and 16,259,4SS acres in the
latter. The winter wheat acreage to-
tally abandoned in Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana and Illinois is finally placed
at 3,522,7S7 acres and the spring wheat
acreage totally abandoned in North
Dakota and South Dakota at 1898, ,567
acres. The extraordinarily rapid rate
at which the winter average Of Ne
braska is gaining upon the spring
wheat average Of that State has neces-
STATED special investigation OF the
relative extent to which the two
varieties were grown during the past
yean The result Of the investigation
is that while no change is called for
in the total wheat figures Of the State
590,575 acres have been added to the
winter wheat column at the expense
Of the spring variety.
The new seeded area of winter wheat
Is estimated at 30,232, SEA acres. While
this acreage is slightly greater than
that sown in the fall of 1899 as esti-
mated at the time, it is 600,654 acres
less than the area that was actually
sown, the discrepancy being due to re-
narkably rapid development OF winter
wheat growing in Nebraska with
which, as above stated, the department
( reports ha dfialed to keep pace. A
&compariSon OF tie newly seeded
Hacreage with that of the fall Of 1899
|shows that OF the eleven States and
Territories that sowed one million
acres or upward with winter wheat
bne year ago, Pennsylvania. Missouri,
kansas, California and Oklahoma re-
bort an increase amounting to 971,703
cres, and Chic. Michigan. Indiana,
linois. Texas and Tennessee a de-
ease of 1,7S0,191 acres. The average
bpditien Of the growing crop on De-
Nicer 1st was 97.1 per cent Of the
brmal There are many complaints
the HesSian fly, but low condition
d. Fures reported from Ohio, Michigan,
kntucky and Tennessee sc, so, 81 and
respectively, are fully Offset by the
Eeptionally high condition reported
M Kansas, Missouri, California.
8 ahoma and other States. in all OF
ch it is above normal.
he production of corn in 1900 is es-
sted at 2,1O5,1O2,516 bushels: oats.
25, ,969 bushels; barley, 5S,925 1888
bells; rye, 23,995,927 bushels; buck
Iat, 9,566,966 bushels; potatoes,
26. .S97 bushels and hay, 50,110,906
The area from which these
5 were gathered was as follows in
sn, S3,52O,7S2; oats, 27.364,795;
y, 2,S94,2S2; rye, 1,991,326; buck
t, 1880; potatoes, ,,611,O54, anG
39, ,1S2,SS0.
corn crop OF 1900 was one OF the
argest ever gathered, while the
op has only once been exceeded.
other hand, the barley and rye
are the smallest with one ex-
b in each case since 1887; the
heat crop is the smallest since
pd the hay crop the smallest
ne exception since 1880.