How The Crops Look

The average condltion of wheafa in the state on November 1 was 78, in the southern couuties 1:1, the aential F-l and the northem 95, vltality and jnowth oí average years being repreKcntea by 100. The condition in the state, and southern and central i-cctions is lower than reported in uiy year sincc 18S0, when tho condition in the state was 62, and int iie soutlierr. counties 5S. Tho average conditioc in the state Nov. 1, since lSfíO, bas been reported as follows : lSi;0, 10C ; 1891, 91; 1892, S7 ; 1 S! a;nd 1894, 94. The' average condition this year is 1G per jent. k v er than one year agou The total number of busliels oí vlieat reported markcted by farmers Biucc the October report was publishe! is 1,124,247, and in the three ruonths, August, September and October, 2,922,715. This is 098;103 l'Uühels less than reported marketed In the same montlis last year. The average yield of corn per acre is estimated at 01 bushels in the state ."8 bushels in the southern counties, CS bushels in the central, and 64 bushels in the northern counties. The clover seed erop is less than hali the usual acreage, and the yield is about one bushei per acre. The yield per acre of potatoes is estimated at 9G per cent of an average in the state. The acreage is 0 per cent in excess oí the acreage in average yeavs. The estimated yield yer acre in the northern counties is 9 per cent above tho yield in average years. I,ive stock is in usually good cpnd il ion. The erop growins season of 1895 i:i the lower península ol Michigan maj 1 t characterized as hot and dry. Thf: mean temperaturc was above the noinial in May, .Tune. August and September, and only slightly below in July. October was a cool month tl.p mean temperature in the oouthein foui tiers of counties being 4.5 degiees- below the normal. The average ralnfall Avas below the normal each month except lugust i:i southern counties, and except August and September in the entral ccunties, T he exeesses in the monlhs named were hardly sufficient to be of appreciable benefit. The total rainïal! in the six months, May-Oetober, in tlie southern four tiers of counties vliero 85 per cent of the crops of thi state are grown, and in the south.en. and central counties where about CT per cent of the crops are grown, v as less than two-thirds the normal.