Crof Report For October

Reports ftt haud form the basis for the following statements : Acres of wheat harvested In 1895 - - 1,262,307 Bushels 16,782,637 Average yield per acre - - 13.30 The acres here given are as shown by the farm statistics of the state taken by supervisors last spring ; the average per -acre is taken irom records kept by threshers, and the total yield is obtained by multiplying the number o! acres In each county by the average per acre and footiDg the products. The total yield as estimated is 4,605,778 'bushels less, and the average per acre 3.56 bushels less, than the erop of 1895. The total yield is 1894 as now compiled frorn supervisors returns was 179,234 Dusüeli less and the average per acre 7-100 buebels more, than eslimated by this departnient in October 1894. The total number of lui-hcls of wheat report ed marketed by farmers slnce the September report was published is 1,005,409, and in the two moutlis, August and September, 1,798,468. This is 677,006 bushels less than reported marketed in the months last. year. Oats are estimated to yield 21 Lu. per acre ; barley, 15.78, and uórn Gl bushels of ears. Compared with average crops potatoes are estimated to yield 82 per cent., beans 78 per cent, winter apples 25 per cent. and late peaclies 83 per cent. Oats aie estimated to yield '7 bushels less, oorn 21 bushels more, aud potatoes 38 per cent. more, than the crops of J 1894 as estimated in October 1894. The mean temperature of the state for September was 64.2 degrees, an excess of 3.4 degrees compared with the normal, and of 1.5 degrees compaied with' September, 1894. The mean temperature was, abo ve the normal in each of the four sections of the state as follows : Southern four tiers, of counties 4.8, central counties 3.S, northern counties 3.2, and upper península 2.7 degrees. The average rainfall in the state in September was 2.82 inches, a defieiency of 0.18 inches compared with the normal. The rainfall in the southern four tiers of jountes amounted to 1.58 inches, which is is '0.82 inches less than the normal for this section. There was, tornpared with the normal, an exeess of rainfall in the central and uorthern counties and upper península, as folIos : Central counties 0.79, northern counties 0.78, and upper peninsula. 3.44 inches. The rainfall in Uie upper península was cxce.-sive, amounting to 0.31 inches. Compared with the rainfall in September, 1894, there is a deficieney of 0.G0 inches in the state, and of more than two iuches in the fsouthern four riera oí counties.