Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
JUNE CROP REPORT.
SPRING WHEAT SnECREASE Oh
2,5Ii. 900 ACRES.
The Condition of Winter Wheat is
Slightly Lower than Month Ago,
While Spring Is Higher than at
This Time Last Year.

Preliminary reports Of the spring
wheat acreage indicate reduction of
| about 2o11.0OO acres, or IFS per cent
OF the nineteen States reporting spring
wheat thirteen report a reduced acreage
Washington being the only State having
100000 acres or upward that reports an
increase. There is a reduction Of 745.-
coo acres in Minnesota and OF 905, 1000
acres in North Dakota, due largely TO an
| favorable weather during sowing time in
the Red River valley; reduction Of i0o.-
COO acres in South Dakota, resulting in
the main from an increasing tendency 10
ward greater diversihcation of crops. and
reduction of $40, 900 acres in Nebraska
consequent on the gradual yielding of
spring wheat 10 winter wheat.
The average condition of spring wheat
on June / was 954. as compared with
" at the corresponding date last year,
ST.3 on June l. 1900. and a ten-year av-
erage of 926. The present average has
been exceeded only three times in The
last fifteen years.
OF the States having 1000, 600 acres or
upward in spring wheat South Dakota
reports condition of 100. North Dakota
90 and Minnesota ara Iowa 80. In
Washington and Oregon, which together
have over 100000 a( es. the condition
averages are 81 and 81 respectively.
| The average eonditoa OF winter wheat
on June l was T6.1. Is compared with
1874 on May l. 1902 SIS on June j..
1901: S2.1 on June /. 1900. and S0.3. the
mean of the June averages of the last
ten years. During May there was n
gain of three points in Michigan illinois
and Kansas. or one pobt in Indiana. two
points in Nebraska ana seven points IN
Oklahoma. On the other hand, there
was loss of two points in California
ind 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
States and territories :report some IN
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 pei cent. and Penn
| sylvania, Indiana, lowe and Nebraska a
decrease. which only I'M the last-mention-
ed State exceeds l peg cent.
! The average condition of oats is 40 6.
against 1913 on June 1,i1901, 91.T at the
corresponding date in 1900 and a ten-year
average of 80. Minnehota and Indiana
| report conditions corresponding exactly
with their ten-year averages, Michigan
reports two, Iowa 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 condition
above the ten-year average as follows:
North Carolina. IS. a gain of one point.
and Michigan 81, gain of six poinls.
In Maine the condition Is SO New York
reports a condition fve|points below tie
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 fayer-
able.
| Condition for tine Week.
The weather bureaus weekly summary
of crop conditions says:
The States of the lower Missouri val
| ley have again suffered from excessive
rains, which have also interrupted farm
work in the northern portions Of Illinois
and Indiana and the southern portions If
Wisconsin and MichigaI.. Drouth is be-
coming serious in the (arolinas and in
the central and west gnlf districts
with ample moisture and favorable
| temperatures corn has made good growth
throughout the centrai valleys, but is
much in need of cultivation in the States
of the lower Missouri wales and Wis
consin.
with warm. showery weather Of the
| last week has been favorable TO the Ge-
velopment Of rust in winter wheat in por-
tons of Missouri and Indiana and has
caused lodging to some extent in Illinois
and Missouri. Harvesting has begun in
the southern portions of Missouri and
| Kansas. On the Pacific coast the wheat
outlook continues promising, although
grasshoppers are causing some damage"