May Crop Report

Temperature and rainfal] were lioth j favorable during April, and ihe grow' ', wheat made falrly good progress. Ihe average eomdltion May 1, in the EOUtheí-n and central counties was 80 per cent., northern j'j per cent., and state 90 per cent., coinparisou being witli vitality and growth of average years. One year aso the average eomdition in the southern coinities was 73 per oent. and central 79 per cent., and the erop of 1893 was estimated in October at 23,690,693 bushele, an average oí 15 bushels per acre for the -state. In 1892 the average condition May 1, in the southern counties waa 84 per cent., and central 81 per cent., and the total yield is the fitate was 25,284,218 bushels, an average of 15.59 bushels per acre. In 1891 the average condition May 1, in the eouthern iounties was 104 per oent., and in the central counties 99 per cent., and the erop of that year was 483 bushels, aai average of 18.49 bu. per acre. Nearly 97 per cent of the total erop in the state is grown in the outhera and central counties. The total nuanber of bushels of wheat reported marketeü by farmers in April is 1,189,002, tind in the nine months, August-April 12,613,198, whk'h is 271,580 trashels more tlian reported marketed im the same mtmths last year. At 19 elevators and anills from wliich renorts have been a-eceived, tJiere was no wheat marketed durhig tlie montli. 'lininiliy and June grasa meadows ;nv in prime conditioji. The statement that .rli"y never looked bel ter at thiw time of yrar occurs frequently iu corropoiidems' notes. Clover that w;is eeeded last year prom'8 s an average erop, but oid clo-per is about all destroyetl, probaély in most cases by lli ■ lover io.it borer. Varloua u:mts asgrtili.s. ei oun-wonns, Lnsects, t;reen, brown and yeliow worms, root borers, smail black bug that eats the dover ppoi - off, :.. are given in the reports. One oorrespondent in Livingston county reports fröm eigh!t to forty little greeai worms, about one-iourtli of an inch long, around each clover stool. It is eettamated thut about one-fourth of the clover in the Southern counties will be plowed up The average condition of what remains ranges irom 81 per ceat. ia the southern counties to 08 per cent in the northern counties. The present outlook for an average erop of apples is encouraging. The figures for the southern counties are 8i per cent, central and northern 9-1 per cent. and state 88 per cent. Teaches promise from five-eighths to three-fourths of a f uil average erop,.