The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-11
THE CONDITION IS LOW
1t is 81 8 Compared With Ten Years
Average of 80 8.
WINTER AND SPRING WHEAT DOING WELL
Tobacco in North Carolina -Four Points Below
the Ten Year Average, The Peach
Crop Will be Above The
Average.
(By the Associated Press.)

by the Associated ITCSS.D
Washington, July 1O.-Preliminary re-
turns to the Statistician of the Depart
ment of Agriculture on the acreage OF
corn planted indicate a reduction of about
four hundred thousand acres, or five per
cent from the area planted last year.
OF the twenty-five States having one mil
lion and upwards in corn in 1900, twelve
show a decrease of about 100000 acres,
while in the remaining ten an increase
of about 10000 acres is shown. Of the
twenty three States and Territories hav-
ing less than one million q res in corn
in 1900 only six report smaller acreages
than were planted last year. The aver
age condition of the growing crop is S1.3
as compared with S9.5 on July 1, 1900, and
a ten year average of 90.3. The condition
in Nebraska is So, in Illinois and Iowa
ST. in Kansas IA, in Missouri TO- and in
Texas 64 In each OF the twenty-five
States rst above referred TO, except in
Mississippi, Virginia and South Dakota,
where the conditions represented by SO,
80 and SO, respectively, correspond with
their ten-year averages, the condition is
more or less below such averages.
The condition of winter wheat improved
during June, being SS.3 on July 1st, as
compared with SIS on July 1st, 1900. and
a ten-year average of S0.2. All the inn
portant winter wheat States share in this
Improvement except Pennsylvania Ohio,
and Maryland
The average condition of spring wheat
alone is improved during the month being
Tt1lv nc with
July 1, 1900, and a ten-year average of
$50. The condition in Nebraska is SO,
Iowa 92. Minnesota SO, South Dakota and
North Dakota 100
The amount of wheat remaining in the
hands of farmers on July /, is estimated
at about 81 900, 900 bushels, or the equiva-
lent of 5.S5 per cent of the crop of 1900.
The average condition of the oat crop
is S3.7 as compared with S5.5 on July
/, 1900, and a ten-year average of S77.
The average condltion of barley is 91.3,
against 1853 on July /, 1900
The average condition of winter rye is
93.6. as compared with S66 on July /,
1900
The average condition of spring rye is
95 3, as compared with 69.7 on July /, 1900.
There is an indicated decrease of some
60, coo acres or 2.3 per cent in the acreage
of potatoes, with a condition on July 1,
of 87.4 as compared with tcn-year aver
age of 93.1.
The sweet potato reports are rather un-
favorable, a majority of the more 'impor-
tant producing States showing conditions
more or less below their tcn-year aver
ages although in a few instances such
averages are exceeded slightly.
The condition of tobacco is one point
above the ten-year average in Ohio, A in
Virginia and in Maryland and on the
other hand points below in Kentucky, 3
in Pennsylvania, in North Carolina and
II in Wisconsin, while in Tennessee it
corresponds with the ten-year average for
that State.
Reports on the hay crop are in the main
unfavora BILE, there being d decline from
the condition as reported on the first OF
last month a mapority of the more I'M
portant hay producing States.
While there has been a general decline
in the condition of apples and peaches as
compared with last month. almost every
important peach growing State has the
promise of more than an average crop,
but in the apple producing States tf.@