The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-01-03
REPORTS ON CROPS OF 1900.
Figures of Department of Agriculture
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Figures of Department of Agriculture
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The statistician of the Department Of
Agriculture estimates the United States
wheat crop of 1900 at 522, Do, ,505 bush
els. the area actually harvested being A.
49o, o,3S5 acres, and the average yield per
acre 1929 bushels. The production of
winter wheat is estimated at 3JO,O2J, 100
bushels and that of spring wheat at IT, :
2O4,O bushels, the area actually har-
vested being 1928. .S97 acres in the for
mer case and 1928, ,iSS acres i'll the lat
ter.
The winter wheat acreage totally aban-
doncd in Ohio. Michigan, Indiana and
Illinois is finally placed at 3,J22. ISI
acres and the spring wheat acreage total
ly abandoned in North Dakota and South
Dakota at LIB, ,461 acres. The extra
ordinaril. rapid rate at which the winter
wheat acreage of Nebraska is gaining up
on the spring wheat acreage Of that State
has necessitated a special investigation
of the relative extent to which the two
varieties were grown during the last year.
The result of the investigation is that,
while no change is called for i'll the total
have been added TO the winter wheat col
umn at the expense of the spring vari-
ETY..
The newly seeded area Of winter wheat
is estimated at 3O,2S2. .564 acres. While
this acreage is slightly greater than that
sOwn in the fall of 1899, as estimated
at the time. it is 6O0,654 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 departments 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 i.O0O.OC1 acres or Up
ward with winter wheat one fear ago,
Pennsylvania. Missouri, Kansas, Califor-
MIA and Oklahoma report an increase
amounting to OIL ,7O4 acres, and Ohio,
Michigan. Indiana, Illinois. Texas and
Tennessee n decrease Of 1.ISO, 191 acres.
The average condition OF the growing
crop on Dec. l was 91.1 per cent of the
normal. There are many complaints of
the Hessian fly. but the low-condition
figures reported from Ohio. Michigan.
Kentucky and Tennessee-S6.SO, 81 and
81. respectively-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 corn III 1900 is esti-
mated at 2,fO5. .1O2,516 bushels; oats,
500, 125. $50 bushels; barley. 5S.925. .S33:
rye. 23,995.92T bushels: buckwheat, o.
666,966 bushels; potatoes, 21O,926.S9I
bushels, and hay, 5O.11O.9O6 tons. The
area from which these crops were gath
cred was as follows. in acres: Corn, 49,
800, oats, 81. .364, ,I95: barley, 2,S94.-
2S2; rye. 1,591 1876: buckwheat. 63I $3.50:
potatoes, 2,611 ,O54, and hay, 80, 132 $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 1883, and the hay
crop the smallest, with one exception,
since 1855.