Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-06-27
CONDITION OF CROPS
is NOT VERY FAvORAeLEiN TIE
UNITED STATES.

is NOT VERY FAVORABLE IN TIE
UNITED STATES.
At Least Not So Promising As to Enable the
Farmer to Join in the Pean to Prosperity
With the Protected Trusts-He Nav, How.
ever. Look at the Procession Pass By.
A late Washington dispatch says:
Preliminary reports OF the spring
wheat acreage indicate reduction of
about 2.51l 900 acres, or 12.S per cent.
OF the nineteen States reporting
Spring wheat, thirteen report a re-
duced acreage. Washington being
the only State having 100000 acres or
upward in this product that report an
increase. There is a reduction Of
745,0O0 acres in Minnesota, and of
9O5, 900 acres in North Dakota, due
largely to unfavorable weather con.
ditions during sowing time in the
Red River Valley; reduction OF
100000 acres in South Dakota, re.
sulting in the main from an increas-
ing tendency toward a greater diversi-
fication of crops, and reduction of
340, 900 acres in Nebraska, consequent
upon that gradual yielding of spring
wheat to winter wheat which is going
on in almost every section OF the
State.
The average condition of Spring
wheat on June l was 95.4, as com.
pared with 90 on June l, 1900, and n
ten-year average OF 92.6. The present
reported average condition 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 con-
dition OF 100, North Dakota sc, and
Minnesota and Iowa 95. In Washing
ton and Oregon, which together have
over 100000 acres in Spring wheat,
the condition averages are 81 and SO
respectively.
The average condition OF Winter
wheat on June l was 76.l, as compared
with 76.4 on May /, 1902, SIS ON
June l, 1901, S2.7 on June l, 1900,
and 5000, the mean average of the
last ten years. During the month of
May there was gain Of points in
Michigan, Illinois and Kansas, Of !
point in Indiana, 2 points in Nebraska
and Z points in Oklahoma. On the
other hand, there was loss of 2 points
in California and points in Pennsyl-
vania, with no measurable change in
Ohio.
The total reported acreage in oats
is about four.tenths Of / per cent. in
excess OF the acreage harvested last
year. The changes in acreage are
very evenly distributed and are gener-
ally inconsidersble, twenty-five States
and Territories reporting some en-
largement of their acreage and twenty
four some reductions. OF the nine
States having 100000 acres or up
ward in oats. New York, Ohio, Illinois,
Wisconsin and Minnesota report an
increased acreage, no case exceeding
per cent, and Pen nsylvania, Indiana,
Iowa aud Nebraska a decrease, which
only in the last mentioned State ex-
ceeds per cent.
The average condition OF oats is
90.6, against S4.4 on June 2, 1901, 91.7
at the corresponding date in 1900, and
a ten-year average of 90. OF the
States having 100000 acres or up.
ward in oats, Minnesota and Indiana
report conditions corresponding ex-
actly with their respective ten-year
averages, Michigan reports 2, Iowa 3,
Illinois 5 and Wisconsin 6 points
above, and Nebraska l point, New
York 2, Ohio 5, and Pennsylvania 13
points below their respective ten.year
averages.
The acreage reported as under bar
ley exceeds the acreage harvested last
year by S.5 per cent. In the States
having 10000 acres or upward de-
voted to this crop, there is an increase
in area amounting to l per cent. in
Kansas, 5 per cent. in South Dakota,
Washington aud California, 8 per cent.
| in Minnesota and So per cent. in
North Dakota, the increase in the
State last named being more entirely
due to the substitution of barley for
wheat in that section OF the State
where wheat seeding was restricted by
long continued wet weather. On the
other hand, there is decrease OF
per cent. in Wisconsin, 2 per cent. in
New York and 8 per cent. in Iowa.
The average condition in barley is
93.6, against % on June 10, 1901, S6.2
at the corresponding date in 1900, and
a ten-year average Of $50. The ten
year averages are exceeded by points
in Washington, 3 points in Minnesota
and Iowa, 5 in California, 6 in North
Dakota and South Dakota, and 10 in
Wisconsin, while New York and
Kansas report conditions 2 and
points. respectively, below such aver.
age.
The acreage under rye shows re-
duction OF five-tenths of l per cent,
from that harvested last year. There
is an increase of l per cent. in New
York, 2 per cent. in Wisconsin, 3 pei
cent. in Nebraska, while Pennsylvania
and Michigan each report reduction