Crop Report For October

The returns thls nionth indícate tha the wheat product of Michigan the pre eent year aiiioun to 22,815,153 hnshels The average yield per acre is 13 and i tetuhs bushels. Probably no wheat erop ever growo it this State was more difficult to estiniat than that of 1887. The yield varies so greatly u different farms in the same lo cality, that a report, however accurate for even a large area, furnislies no eer tuin basis for an estímate of the entire erop. The ligures above given are busei on the area in wheat as shown n Juli erop report, the actual yield of 256,66 acres as shown by records kept by thresh ers, and the actual yleld of 103,018 acres grown on 9,159 farms as shown by a can vass made by correspondent. Mucli of the area covered by the can vass made by corresponden ts Is doubtless included in the returns taken from the thresheis' records. The acreage threshei taken Trom the threshers' records in eludes about one-sixth of the total wheat acreagu of the State. The wheat product as above estimated is about 4,708,000 bushels less than tin erop of 1880, and more than 5,000,000 lHi-.hr] less than the average annual product in the eilit years, JÖ78-85. The caovass made by correspondente in the sonthern four tiers of counties fur nislies data tor the following statements : Three farmers in each liunürcd ruiscil leestlian 6 bushels of wheat per acre, 11) farmers iu enen hundred raised '.) to In bushels per acre, 33 farmers in each hnndred robed 10 to 15 bushels per acre, and 2!i farmeis in each hundred raised 15 to 20 bushels per acre. Footing wo iind that 84 farmers in each one hundred raised In 1887 less than 20 bushels of whe-it per acre. The average yield per acre of wheat raised on corn stubble is returueu at 11 and 31-liuiidredths bushels; on wheat stubble, at 11 and 29 hundredths bnahels; on oat stubble, at 12 and .'t.'Miundreclths bushels; and on summer fallow, at 17 .md 34 luindredths bushels. K xirts have been reoeived of ihc Hianlily of wheat marketed by farinor.-' liuriiiff the month of September at 315 Wevators and milis. Of these 255 are in the soulhern tour tiers of counties, which is 51 per cent., and 42 are n the lifth and sixth tiers of counties, which is 47 per cent of the wliole nuniber in these sec;ions respectively. The total nnrnber of bushels reported marketed is 1,246,951, of which 256,318 bushels were marketed in the lirstor southern tier of counties; 256,201 bushels in the second tier; 174 692 bushels in the third tier; 309,431 bushels n the fourth tier; 125,484 busbels in the itth and sixth tiers; and 24,735 bushels ii the northern counties. At 25 elevators and milis, or 8 per cent of the vhole nuraber from which reports have been received, there was no wheat marketed during the nionth. The total nuinber of bushels of wheat reported marketed in August and Sepemher is 2 279,439. The yleld per acre of oats in the southern four tiers of countips :w ami an. luiulieutlis bushels; in the central, 29 nul S-hundredtus bushels; and in the northern counties 23 and TÜ-hundredtlis iiMhelf. Barley averages 21 and I6-kundiedths bushels per acre in the State. Corn is estlmated to yield 3!) busliels )f ears in the southern counties, 51 bushels of ears In the central countles, and 4" bushe'.s of ears In the northern counties. These Usures indícate an averife tor the State of about 20 bU9iel3 of helled corn, or abont two-thirds of an average erop. Potatoes wIH yleld not to exceed onehird of an average erop. The estímate eomparison being with a full average, Is 8 per cent in the Southern counties, and 43 and 45 per cent in the central and lorthern sections respectively. Winter apples will yield about onelalf of the average erop.