Michigan's Crops

The number of acres of growing wheat in the State last May as shown by the supervisors' returns was 1,490,226; the average yield per acre as found by threshing is 11 48 bushels, and the total yield in the State 17,109,991 bushels. The total number of bushels of wheat reported marketed by farmers during September is 1,286,059, and in the two months, August-September, 2,171,257. This is 372,789 bushels more than reported in the same months last year. Oats are estimated to yield 28.43 bushels per acre, barley 26.50 bushels, and corn 70 bushels of ears per acre. Corn fodder is somewhat injured by heavy winds and rains, but was generally sec ured without damage byfrost. Potatoes on high ground, and on the lighter soils are a f uil average erop, but on low ground and clay soils this erop has been badly damaged by the rains. Beans are estimated to yield, in the southern counties, 84 per cent, and in the State 83 per cent of an average erop. Winter apples are 118 per cent of an average erop in the State, and late peaches are 96 per cent of an average erop in the State. Frosts heavy enough to do much damage did not occur in the southern part of the State until after the middle of September. In September the rainfall was excessive throughout the lower península. The average in the State was 5.10 inches or nearly twice the normal.