Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-01-09
REpoRTs en- CROPS OF lsoo.
Figures of Department of Agriculture
Show Good Conditions.

The statistician of the Department of
Agriculture estimates the United States
wheat crop of 1900 at 522. 229, 800 bush
els, the area actually harvested being A.
495,3S5 acres, end the average yield per
acre 1929 bushels. The production of
winter wheat is estimated at $50, 02J, 400
bushels and that Of spring wheat at 49,
2o4, 096 bushels, the area actually har-
vested being %, 235, S97 acres in the for
mer case and 16,259,4SS acres in the lat
ter
The winter wheat acreage totally abap-
doned in Ohio Michigan, Indiana and
Illinois is finally placed at 3d., Isi
acres aud the spring whear acreage total
~ abandoned in North Dakota and South
Dakota al l,T93. 46T acres. Tie extra
ordinarily rapid rate at which the winter
wheat acreage of Nebraska is gaining up
on the spring wheat acreage Of that STATE
has necessitated special investigation
of the relative extent 10 which the two
varieties were grown during the last year.
The result of the investigation is that.
while no change is called for in the TOTAL
wheat figures of the tate. 590.1I3 acres
have been added 10 the winter wheat COZ
umn at the expense of the spring yari-
ETY..
The newly seeded area Of winter wheat
Is estimated at 80 2S2, 564 acres While
this acreage is slightly greater than that
sown in the fall Of 1899, as estimated
al the time, it is 600,G54 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 AS above
stated, the departments reports had fail
ed to keep pace.
A comparison of the newly seeded
acreage with that of the fall of 800
shows that ct the eleven States and ter
ritories that s9wed 100000 acres o. up
ward with winter wheat one year ago,
Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, Califor-
mia and Oklahoma report an increase
amounting to 971,7o4 acres, and Ohio,
Michigan. Indiana, Illinois. 1'cxas and
Tennessee a decrease 0f 1,7S0,19t ceres.
To average condition of the growing
crop on Dec. was 81 per cent of the
normal There are many complaints of
the Hessian fly, but the low-eondition
figures reported from Ohio, Michigan,
Kentucky and Tennessee-S6.S0 81 and
"a, respectively-are fully offset by the
excep ionally high condition reported
from Kansas, Missouri, California, Ok
lahoma and other States, in all OF which
1t is above normal.
The production of corn in 1900 is esti-
mated at 2.1O5, 102,516 bushels; oats,
500, 125,9S9 bushels; barley, 5S,925, 1888;
rye. 23,995,927 bushels; buckwheat, g.
666,96 bushels; potatoes, 210,926,S91
bushels, and hay, 5o110,9O6 tons. The
area from which these crops were gath
cred was as follows, in acres: Corn, 49,,
820,S72; oats, 27,364,T 95; barley, 2,S94-
2S2; rye, 1851 1926; buckp heat, 637 800;
potatoes, 2,611, 054, and hay, 80, 49,, 800,
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.