The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-11
OUTLOOK FOR GRAIN
YIELD THIS YEAR.
Decrease in Acreage of Wheat
in Most of the States.
UTAH SHOWS INCREASE
AVERAGE CONDITION OF ALL
THE CEREALS Is REPORTED.

Washington, June 1O.-Preliminary
reports OF the spring wheat acreage
indicate a reduction Of about 200, 600,
acres. or ga per cent. OF the twenty
states reporting 10000 acres Gil upward
in spring wheat, eight report an in
crease aggregate about $4,000 acres, and
twelve a decrease amounting to about
1,2S5 600.
There is an increase in acreage Of 10
per cent in New Mexico, per cent in
Nevada, 4 in Arizona, 3 in Michigan, 2
in Montana and Utah, and 1 per cent
in Wyoming and Washington, while in
Iowa there is a decrease of Is per cent
oregon, 8; Kansas, z; Wisconsin ana
Minnesota, E; Illinois, Nebraska, South
Dakota. North Dakota and California,
8; idaho, 4; and Colorado, ? per cent.
The average condition of spring
wheat on June 1 was 800 as compared
with S7.3 at the corresponding date last
year and 9l.4 on June /, 1899 The
mean of the June averages for the last
ten years is 92-6, and for the last fifteen
years 92.7. The averages of the prin-
cipal states are as follows: Oregon, 90;
North Dakota, 81; Wisconsin, 50; Ne
bras IA, IS.
The average condition of winter
wheat declined during May 6-3 points,
the condition on June / being SIS, as
against 94.1 on May l. On june i,
1900, the condition was S2.7, and on the
date in 1899, 67.3. ThG
mean of the June averages for the last
ten years of winter wheat is S1.2, and
for the past fifteen years, S2.3-
The principal averages by states are
as follows: Maryland, 100; Virginia. 9S;
Pennsylvania, So; California, 80; Ohio
and Indiana, 80; Tennessee, IS; KAN
sas. 81; Missouri, Illinois and Okla
homa, 81; Michigan, IS, and Texas, As.
The low condition in Texas is due 10
drOuth and the ravages of the wheat
plant louise; in Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri the crop has been damaged
by the Hessian fly and by drouth; in
Michigan the HesSian fly has seriously
injured the crop, and it has done con-
siderable damage in portions or Indiana,
Illinois and Kentucky. The present
averages of condition relate strictly to
the crop still under cultivation June 1.
Condition of Oats.
The average condition of oats is S5.3,
against 91-7 on June /, 1900; 1871 at
the corresponding. date in 1899, and a,
ten-year average IF 80.
The acreage reported as under barley
is II per cent smaller than the area
harvested last year. There is an in
crease of per cent IN California, but
decreases in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, New
York and North Dakota.
The average condition Of barley is
| 91.0. against S6.2 on June /, 1900, 91.4
at the corresponding datesin 1893, and a.
ten-year average of SIS. The ten-year
averages are exceeded by II points in
California, 4 in Kansas, in South Da-
kota and in New York, while Mime
sofa reports Z; Wisconsin and North
Dakota, 3, and Iowa, 2 points below
such averages
The acreage under rye shows q re-
ductiOn of 1.9 per cent from that har-
vested last year. The average eondi-
ton of rye is 93.9, as compared with SIS
on June 1, 1900, and a ten-year average
of S9.4
The acreage and condition of clover
for the country as whole cannot be
yet satisfactorily determined. WiscOn-
sin reports an increase in acreage of 5
/ per cent; 5 per cent in Michigan and
Nebraska; 3 per cent in New York and
( Kansas, and per cent in Iowa. IN
California the acreage is reported as
being the same as last year. Decreases
are reported in Indiana, Minnesota,
South Dakota, Illinois and Missouri.
AS to condition, Ohio reports u points
! above the ten-year average; Nebraska,
10 points New York and Michigan, 9
/ points. Missouri reports IA points be-
low this average; Pennsylvania, H.
I California and Illinois. 13, and Mime
sofa, 1 point.