Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-01-08
REPORTS ON CROPS OF 1900.


The statistician of the Department OF
| Agriculture estimates the United States
wheat crop OF 1900 at 522. Dog, 500 bush
1 els, the area actually harvested being A.
/ 495,3S5 acres, and the average yield per
| acre 1929 bushels. The production OF
winter wheat is estimated at $50, O25. 4O9
| bushels and that of spring wheat at IT,
| 204, coo bushels, the area actually har-
vested being 26,235, S97 acres in the for
mer case and 1929, ass acres IN the lat
| ter
The winter wheat acreage totally aban-
doned in Ohio, Michigan. Indiana and
Illinois is finally placed at 3,522,7
acres and the spring wheat acreage total
! " abandoned in North Dakota and South
Dakota at 1913, 467 acres. The extra
ordinarily rapid rate at which the winter
wheat iicreage of Nebraska is gaining up
on the spring wheat acreage of that State
| he's necess;tated a special investigation
of the relative extent TO which the two
varieties were grown during the last year.
| The result of the investigation is thar,
while no change IS called for in the total
wheat figures of the tate, $50, 80 acres
have been added to the winter wheat coli
umn at the expense of the spring vari-
ETY..
The newly seeded area of winter wheat
IS estimated at 30,2S2 ,564 acres While
th.s acreage is slightly greater than that
sown in the fall of 1899, as estimated
at the time, it is 600,654 acres less than
the area that was actually sown. the dis
crepancy being due to that remarkably
rapid development of winter wheat grow
ing in Nebraska with which las above
stated, the department reports had fail
ed to keep pace.
A comparison of the newly seeded
acreage with that of the fall of 1899
shows that of the eleven States and ter
ritories that sowed 1000 GOO acres or up
ward with winter wheat one year ago,
Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, Califor-
MIA and Oklahoma report an increase
amounting to 971, 704 acres, and Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Texas and
Tennessee a decrease of 1,7S0,191 acres.
The average condition of the growing
crop on Dec. was 97.1 per cent of the
normal. There are many complaints of
the Hessan fly, but the low-condition
figures reported from Ohio, Michigan,
Kentucky and Tennessee-S6.S 81 and
a. respectiyely-are fully Offset by the
exceptionally high condition reported
from Kansas, Missouri, California, Ok
lahoma and other States, in all of which
it is above normal
The production Of eern in 1900 is est
mated at 2,105, 1886 bushels; oats,
800, 125,9S9 bushels; barley, 5S,925, S33;
rye, 23,925.927 bushels; buckwheat, o.
&c., 66 bushels potatoes, 210,926,S97
bushels, and hay, 5o,110,906 tons, The
area from which these crops Wefe gath
cred was as follows, In acres: Corn, 49,
320.S72; oats, 27,364, 795; barley, 1884,
2S2; rye, 1851 1876; buckwheat, 637 $3.50;
potatoes, 2,611 ,054, and hay, 80, 1872, $50.
The corn crop of 1900 was one of the
four largest ever gathered, while the oat
crop has only once been exceeded. On
the other hand, the barley and rye crops
are the smallest with one exception in
each case, since 1887; the buckwheat crop
is the smallest since 1888, and the hay
crop the smallest, with one exception,
since 1888.