Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-06-14
JUNE CROP REPORT.
SPRING WHEAT DECREASE OF
1851 900 ACRES.
The Condition of Winter Wheat Is
Slightly Lower than a Month Ago,
While Spring Is Higher than at
This Time Last Year,

preliminary reports of the spring
wheat acreage indicate a reduction of
about 2,611 900 acres, or 1913 per cent
Of the nineteen States reporting spring
wheat thirteen report reduced acreage,
washington being the only State having
IOO,OUO acres or upward that reports an
increase. There is a reduction Of 745,-
OOO acres in Minnesota and of 905, 600
acres In North Dakota. due largely to UNI
favorable weather during sowing time in
the Red River valley; reduction of 400
UOO acres in South Dakota, resulting in
the main from an increasing tendency to-
ward greater Investigation of crops, and
a reduction of 100000 acres in Nebraska,
consequent on the gradual yielding of
spring wheat to winter wheat
The average condition of spring wheat
on June 1 was 95.4, as compared with
90 at the corresponding date last year,
S7.3 on June l, 1900, and ten-year av-
erage of 92.6. The present average has
been exceeded only three times in the
last fifteen years.
OF the States having 100000 acres Or
upward in spring wheat South Dakota
reports a condition of 1OO North Dakota
SO and Minnesota and Iowa 95. In
Washington and Oregon, which together
have over 1,100,0 900 acres, the condition
averages are 81 and 93 respectively.
The average condition of winter wheat
on June l was 16.1, as compared with
1874 on May 1, 1902; S7.S on June J.,
1901; 82.7 on June 1. 1900, and S0.3, the
mean of the June averages of the last
ten years. During May there was a
gain of three points in Michigan, Illinois
and Kansas, of one point in Indiana, two
points in Nebraska and seven points in
Oklahoma. On the other hand, there
was a loss of two points in California
and three points in Pennsylvania, with
no measurable change in Ohio.
The total reported acreage in oats IS
about four-tenths in excess of the acre
age harvested last year. Twenty-Five
States and territories report some on
| largement of acreage and twenty-four
some reductions. OF the nine States
having. 100000 acres or upward in oats
| New York, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and
| Minnesota report an increased acreage,
no case exceeding per cent, and Penn
| sylvania, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska a
decrease, which only in the last-mention-
ed State exceeds 1 per cent.
| The average condition of oats is BOG,
against S5.3 on June /, 1901. 91.7 at the
corresponding date in 1900 and a ten-year
average of 90. Minnesota and Indiana
report conditions corresponding exactly
with their ten-year averages, Michigan
reports two. IONA three, Illinois five and
| Wisconsin six points above and Nebras-
ka one point, New York two, Ohio five
and Pennsylvania thirteen points below.
The average condition of apples is I'M
| favorable. OF the fourteen large produc-
| ing States but two report a condition
above the ten-ycar average, as follows:
North Carolina, SO, gain of one point,
and Michigan 81, a gain of six points.
In Maine the condition is 90. New York
reports condition five points below the
ten year average, Illinois and Iowa nine
points, Ohio twelve, Pennsylvania and
Kansas sixteen, Kentucky, Virginia and
Tennessee seventeen, Missouri eighteen
and Indiana nineteen points. The pros
poets of the peach crop are quite favor
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