Michigan Crop Report

Lansing, May 10. - The Michigan erop report for May says that the teinperature and rainfall were both favorable iuring April, and the growing wheat made fairly good progresa. The average condition May 1. in the state, was ÍKJ per cent, comparison being with vitality and growth of average years. One year ago the average condition in southern counties was 73 per cent and een: ral 79 per cent, and the erop of 1893 was eatimated in October at 23,690,693 l);..-;:els, an average of 15 bushels per au; e for the state. K early 97 per cent of the total erop in the state is grown in the southern and central counties. The total number of bushels of wheat reported inarketed by farmers in April is 1,189,602, and in the nine months, AugustApriL 12,613,198 bushels, which 271, 580 bushels mort thau reported inarkted in the same months last year. Timothy and June grass meadows are in prime eondition. Clover seeded last year promises an average erop, but old clover is about all destroyed, probably in most cases by the clover root borer. It is estimated that onefourth of the clover in southern counties will be plowed up. The average condition of what remains ranges froiu 81 per cent in the southern counties to 98 per cent in the northern counties. The present outlook for an average erop of apples is encouraging. The figures for the state at 88 per cent. Peaches proruise from five-eighths to three-fourths of a full average erop.