Michigan Crop Report, May 1, 1886

For this report returns have been received from 920 correspondent, representing 794 townships. Six hundred mul fifieeu of these returns are from 418 townships In the southern four tiers of cduiities. Comparad witli ritallty and growth of average years, the conilition of wheat in the soutlieru connties is 90 per cent., aid in the northern countie? 95 per cent. These figures ladiajtt an aggregate product of about 24,000,000 bnshels. Of the aren seeded to wheat, three per cent. will be plnwed up becausi) winter-killed or otherwise destroyed. Ueports liave been rtíceived of the quantity ot wbeat markted by farmers during the nionth of April at 279 elevaton and milis. Of these 22! ure in the soiithern four tiers of counties, whlch is 43 per cent., of the whole nuniberof elevatöisand milis in these counties. The total numlier of bushels reported inarketed is 4-20,871, of wMeh 101,9(i:i bushels were marketed i i the first or southern tier of countins; 10fl.814 bushels in the second tier; 08,528 bushels in the third tierr 100.2(53 bushels in the fourtli tier; and 84,106 tmshels in the countifs north of the southern four tiers. At 51 ekv itors nnd milis, or 22 per cent. of the whole nuiuber from which reports have been reciived, there was DO wheat inarketed duriUjg the montli. The total uuuiber of bushuls of wheat reported marketed in August, September, October, November, December, Jannary, February, March and April is 12,005,455, or about 41 per cent. of the erop of 18S5. The numberof bushels reported marketed in the .same nionths of 1884 and 1885 was 7,427,184, or .'i0 per cent. of the erop of 1884. For these monthk in 1S84-5 reports were received from about 38 per cent., and in 1885-6 from about 45 per cent. of the elevators and milis in the Mjuthern tuur tiers of counties. Ten per cent ot tlic aren in clover has been winter-killed. Clover not winter killed is 100 per cent compared with vitality and growlh Óf average years. In condition, hores are 'J8, cattle 9(i, sheep 'M and swine 97, 100 rebresenting stock in good, healthy and thrifty condition. Apples proinise 9( per cent. and peaches CO percent, óf an average erop. The report tor peaekes is lor living, henlthy trees. The aggregate yield will be small. From J. Austin Bcott, Ann Arbor, Vashtenaw county - The prospecta now for a full fruit erop in this section of the state is remarkably good. Peaches, apples aud pear nre a full average erop. The prospect for a full erop of strawberries, blackberries and ra-pberries is also good. The older peacli trees weie mostly killed in the winter ot' UM4r6. From Jacob Gauzhoiu, Ann Arbor, Wushtenaw county - The past winter has left all our fruit trees in üood condition. Apples and peaches now promise a full erop. The winter has thinned out the Crawford buds somewhat, but there are enough blossoms remaiuing to make a full erop. Pears, cherries, plunis and quinces al6O give promise of a full erop. Grapes and all the small liuits show prontlH of full crops. All fruit trees are in full blooin. The prospect for all the fruit grown in tlus latitude could not be better. The per cent. of ncreage of wheat that has been ]lowed up in this county because of being winter-killed is ;i per cent., and its condition as compared with average years is 90 per cent. In clover meadows 12 per cent is winter-killed, and the balance averages 99 per cent. coinpared withformer years. Of the 23 milis and elevators in the county, 9 have reported 28,482 bushels of wheat marketed during April, and ti!i9.911 bushels marketed during the past eight mouths. How the Chinese Crowd Out Working (iirls. There are to-day more tiian 5,000 Chinainen in San Francisco niakiug shirts, in the same lield and struggliug agalnst thein are 500 poor white girls holding out their empty and comilaining hands to their country men aak Ing aid in their stiuxgle ngainst the Mongol toe - 500 Aniuiican girls holding their forlorn hope againgt ten times their nuinber of cruel Mongolians who are remorselcssly preus ing theiu t( their li nal defeat. One would Imagina that with gUOh a picture of despair before the very eyes of the chivulrous people ot these l'nited States that the strong hand of American manhood be stretehed out to aid the girls in whose veins runs blood like our mvn. Exnctly the reverse i the case. Thesordid capitalist is lending every possible aid t the enemy of their own race; they are the men who Htt their voices for the Chinese arniy and urge them on and beat down the live bundred American girls to poverty and proftitution and stai vation. How long will this kind of business last? It will 'ast untilourown American girls are driven lo dcath or a lile of shamc and their starved and ruined bndies are hustled ander ground and their lost souls summoned to take their llight to the unse'n world. Iron ore is protected from foreign oompetltlon; shovels and spades are protected; foreign sewing uiachines and scissors have to pay duty before they are )yiit upon the luarket. But the American nicn wlio dig out the ore, and the Ainelkan giils who usc the other have no custom house banier between themselvcs aud the verniiu eating wretches who, having devouitd A.-ia like a plague of locUBtS, have set tlu.ii' luces toward the prosperity and plenty ot the white man s continent.