The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-11-19
STATE
NEWS
MICHIGAN HARVEST POOREST
IN YEARS

The fnal estimated yield OF wheat
in Michigan is 1891 bushels an acre,
according to the crop report issued
by Secretary of State Vaughan.
The estimated total yield for the
state is 15,494,517 bushels and the
condition of growing wheat as COM
pared with an average per cent, is SO
for the state During the past three
months, it is estimated that 100000
| bushels of wheat have been marketed.
The estimated average yield of corn
is 1882 bushels an acre. Clover seed
averages 1.41 bushels; beans $3.50
bushels and potatoes SAIL bushels.
Following is the estimated acreage
and total yield of the principal crops:
Wheat 77S,273 acres and 15,494,517
bushels; corn, 1,907,747 acres and 50,-
20S,723 bu.; oats, 1,6S5,520 acres and
7,7s1 1868 bu.; barley, 1905 acres and
2,236,l7S bu.; rye, 393,s17 acres and
SIT ,48O bu.; buckwheat, 55,964 acres
and S04,7S1 bu.; potatoes, 363,754
/ acres and 1851 1863 bu.; beans, 442,-
574 acres and 1,193,170 bu.; peas Ca
163 acres and 1,193,170 bu.; clover
seed, 10000 acres and 155,100 bu.;
apples, ,635 acres and 1O,2O2, COL
bu.; peaches" 23,254 acres and 1885,
316 bu.; pears, 1902 acres and $685.
979 bu.; plums, 3,720 acres and 324,-
O12 bu..; cherries, 1901 acres and
1,O91, 900 bu.; strawberries, SABA
acres and 348,O7l bu.; raspberries and
blackberries, 9,086 acres and 543,979
blu.
The yield of corn was 10 per cent.
potatoes 40 per cent, and beans 81
per cent less than the 10 year average
from 1905 to 1914" said Secretary
Vaughan, land the quality the poorest
in that period. Corn did not ripen,
potatoes rotted badly and beans were
seriously affected by anthraonose and
excessive moisture"
RECEIVER ASKED FOR GRAND
RAPIDS FIRM
Dissension among stockholders is
given as the contributory cause for
the appointment of a receiver in dis
trict court recently for the Carpen-
ter Udell Chemical company, Of this
city.
The petition filed by creditors, al
leges an Indebtedness Of $4,000 and
of that amount $4,000 is said to be in
promissory notes. The petitioners are
the General Chemical company of
Chicago, the Edward Hills Sons COM
pany and the Commercial Acid COM
pany.
1t is alleged that the company has
valuable contracts recently obtained
in New York, including war contract
for 100000 for acids. The Michigan
Trust company was named receiver.
EAST LANSING-A poultry plant
devoted to the study of diseases of
turkeys will be established at the
Michigan Agricultural college. "As
it is now, the losses are so serious
that one can never count on eating
turkey until he sees it on the table"
says Professor c. H. Burgess of the
M. A. c. Poultry department.
Avian tuberculosis has been found
to affect chickens, according to Pro-
fessor c. H. Burgess, of M. A c. poul-
try department. "The disease is COM
municabIe to man and chickens suf-
fering from it are unfit for food"
said Burgess. "We have been trying
to get owners of the diseased fiocks
to kill them, but as the disease has
only recently been discovered, there
is no law by which we can compel
them to do so. The disease should
be stamped out before it obtains a
foothold."
EAST LANSING, Mich, The turk
elk, most popular American bird, will
be scarse in Michigan on or around
Thanksgiving day, according to Prof.
Charles H. Burgess, head of the poul-
try department at M. A. G. Michigan
fiocks, the college man says, were un-
usually hard hit by the damp and
backward weather of the last spring,
making it unlikely that turkey will
be obtainable this fall at anything ike
popular prices.
AS move towards appeasing the
appetites of citizens in this district
who have turkey tooth" the col
lege itself proposes to put few
birds on the market. The move, how