Crop Report For May

The we&ther In April was very favorable au öcrops of all kinds made gootl progresa. Xot more tham two or t luee per rent. of the wlieat sowed will be plawed up beoause winter killed or nthcrwise, destroyèd. Wltli few excepfclons the reporta show r.o daanage by insectB. T'hc :,verag?e coudi; ion of whe it in ih soutlieru aud een-tral counties and the state te the hjgh-eat reported In iive y rus. Tlve figures are: Southern couotles 91 ; central and uortliern counties 94, a.nd state 92. In 1S94 tiw' ii;iurrs were 89 in the southern and cutral counttes, 95 in the aorthrrn. and 90 for the state. Die yteld per acre in 1894 wam 10.86 bushels on 1,272,170 acres. Tut nmount oí wheut reported marketed by farmers in April is 468,634 bius'uels a.s compared witli S10.226 els in April 1895, and the amoumt in the nine montlis, AugustA.pril, is T.TSlSTO buLshels, ás coml:iit.'il wirh i. 070. 541 buShels in the same nicmths last year. In the Isouth'ei-n counties 30 per cent, and m the state an avei'age of 26 per cent oí the meadows will 'be phxwed up. Owing to the drouth the seeding of lastyear was very senerally lost, and there are evry few clover meadows in the state. 'Hmothy meadows are making fine growth. The average condition of meadows is 81 ï nthe eouthern counties, 01 in the notrth.em and 85 for the state. The prospect is good for heavy crops of apples and peaches. The average percentagef oír fhe state is 06 lor apples, and 84 for peaches. The average in the southern counties Is 05 ior apples and 83 for peachea ; centra lcounties 99 for apples, and 87 for peaehes, and northern 98 for apples, and 88 for peaches.