Michigan Crop Report For April, 1882

Frota the advance sheets oí' the report of the Secretary of State, for April, 1882, we copy the following extracts : Keturns have been re ceived from 928 correspondents, representing 680 townships. Six hundred and one of these returns are from 412 townships in the southern four tiers of counties. The growing wheat in Michigan suffered little or no in jury during the month of March. According to the estimates, six per cent. of the acreage sovvn last f all has been winter-killed. The erop in the southeru four tier3 of counties promises forty-seven per cent. better, and in the entire State thirtyeight per cent. better, than on the lst of April, 1881. The condition of clover is not so promising. Twenty-nine per cent. of the entire acreage in clover meadows and clover pastures is reported winter-killed, and the condition of that portion not winter-killed is four per cent. below the condition ono year ago. The prospects for apples and peaches are favorable. Cattle and sheep throughout the State are generally in good condition. The mortality aniong breeding ewes and lambs, with few exceptions, is reported no greater than usual. The mortality among swine is reported greater than usual by thirty-seven correspondents. Cholera is given a3 the cause in Braach, Cass, Ionia, Leiaawee, Monroe, Oakland, St. Joseph and Wexford counties. Two correspondents in Kalamazoo county state that there are fewer cases of cholera than one year ago. , Keports have been received of the quantity of wheat marketed by farmers during the month of March at 294 elevators asd milis. Of these 231 are in the southern four tiers oi counties, which is nearly one-halL of the whole number of milis in these counties. The total number of bushels reported marketed is 448,155, of whic'al56,552 bushels were marketed inthe flrst or southern tier of counties, 133,035 bushels in the second tier, 65,723 bushels in the third tier, 71,873 bushels in the fourth tier, and 25,972 bushels in the counties north of the southern four tiers. At forty-3even elevators and milis, or sixteen per cent. of the whole number from which reports have been received, there was no wheat marketed during the month. At 230 elevators and milis the quantity of wheat marketed was 420,247 bushels, which is twenty-two per cent. of the quantity marketed at the same places during the months of January and February.