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Crop Report For July

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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tliis report oti wheat more than 1,100 returns have been received, representing all parta of the State. The correspondente estímate the yield per acre in bnshels and not in percentage of previous and average crops. The average of the estimates for the State and each section is as follovvs: State, 9.88; southern counties, 9.14 bushels; central counties, 11.13 bushels, uorthern counties, 11.82 bushels, and upper península, 14 bushels. The estimates for the State is the lowest ever made July 1 ; it is nearly G bushels lower than the estímate of July 1, 3894, and nearly 7 bushels lower than the average yield in the eighteen years, 187G-1893. The light erop is mainly on account of the drouth that has prevailed all the season and still continúes, yet other causes have worked more or less injury. A correspondent well says : "Light top last fall, freezing and thawing in spring, frosts in May, and drouth in April, May and June." To these should be added extensiye damage by insects. The number of bushels of wheat reported marketed in June is 522,311 as compared witli 866,351 reported in arketod in June, 1894, and the amount marketed in eleven months, AugustJune, is 10,569,800 bushels as compared with 14,298,306 bushels in tlie same month lastyear. The acreage plauted to corn is slightly in excess of the acreage, and the condition is 91 per cent of condition, in average years. Oats are estimated at Gl per cent of an average erop. The average for the southern counties is only 57 per cent. The acreage planted to potatoes is 6 per cent in'excess to average years, and in condition the erop promises 86 per cent of au average. Corn and potatoes seem to have stood the drouth remarkably well. If an abundance of rain comes soon both crops may be expected to yield fairly well. Meadows and pastures were probably never in poorer condition at this date, and the spring seeding to clover is nearly all lost. The outlook for apples and peaches is not encouraging. The farmer promises perhaps one-third, and the latter flveoihls ot the average erop.

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Ann Arbor Courier