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Crop Report For June

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
June
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The average condition of wheat in the southern counties, June 1, was 6j6, central 83, northern 87, and State 73. The condition lias been reported lower in the southern counties and the State June I, only once in ten years. viz., in 1888, when the figures for the southern section were 62, and for the State (■". Wlieat only six inches to a foot high s in head ; it is thin on the ground, and throughout the southern counties is béng damaged by insects. Correspondenta in this section very generally reportdamage by "Hessian fly," "in sects," "midge," etc. The number of bushels of wlieat reorted niarketed in May. is 376,948, as compared with 818,747 reported marketed in May, 1894, and the amount marketed in the ten months, AugustMay, is 10,047,489 bushels, as compared with 13,431,945 bushels in the same nontlis last year. The acreage planted to corn slightly exceeds, and the acreage sowed to oats fully equals the acreage in average years. Meadows and pastures are in poor condition. The figures for the southern ounties are 67 ; central, 75; northern, 85 ; and State, 71. Thecertain deficiency n the hay erop will be largely supplied by corn wliich has been planted for fodder. Clover sowed this year appears to uive made some growth, but its general condition is not promising. Our regular correspondents estímate apples at 47 per cent, and peaches at 63 per cent of aa average erop. These low estimates are confirmed by a large numoer of reports from fruit specialists. In many locatilties, howevèr, peaches ' promises a full erop. In the southern counties the wages per month of farm hands average $15.60 with board, and $21.70 without board; in the central counties, $14.66 with board, and $22.31 without board ; and in the northern counties, -flG.04 with board, and 25.58 without board. Compared with one year ago the wages are lower in each section, but the decline in the southern counties of wages without board is only 29 cents per month. The farm statistics of 863 townshrps, eollected and returued by supervisors, indícate that the nuinber of sheep now on hand in the State is 16 per cent less than sheared in 1894. There is a loss of 17 per cent in the southern counties, of 12 per cent in the central counties, and of 1 per cent in the northern counties.

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Ann Arbor Courier