Crop Report For October

The number of acres of growing wheat in the State last May as shown by the supervisors' returns was 1,490,226 ; the average yield per acre as found by threshing is 11.48 bushels, and the total yield in the state 17,109,991 bushels. The total yield is found by multiplying the number of acres in each county by the average per acre in the same county and footing the producís. The average per acre in the southern counties is 11.16 bushels; in the central, 13 26 bushels, and in the northern 10.81 bushels. These averages are based upon a return of nearly 85,000 acres threshed in the southern counties, more than 11,000 in the central counties and ' more than 5,000 in the northern counties. The total number of bushels of wheat reported marketed by farmers since the September report was published is ' 1,286,059, and in the tvro months, Angust-September, 2,171 ,257. This is 372,789 bushels more than reported marketed in the same months last year. Oats are estimated to yield 28.43 bushels per acre, barley 26.50 bushels, and corn 70 bushels of ears per acre. The yield of oats is from threshers', records. Corn fodder is somewhat injured by heavy winds and rains, but was generally secured without damage by frost. Potatoes on high ground, and on the lighter soil aro a full average erop, but on low ground and clay soils this erop has been badly damaged by the rains. Compared with a full average erop the yield is estimated at 72 per cent in the southern counties, 70 per cent in the central; 79 per cent in the northern, the average for the state being 72 per cent. Beans are estimated to yield, in the State 83 per cent of an average erop. Winter apples are 120 per cent of an average erop iu the southern and central counties, 104 per cent in the northern and 118 per cent in the state, and late peaches are 95 per cent of an average erop in the southern counties 112 per cent in the central, 90 per cent in the northern and 96 per cent in the state. The mean temperature of the state for September was 57.0 degrees, or 3.3 degrees below the normal. It was below the normal in the several sections as follows: Southern counties, 1.8 degrees ; central, 3.5 degrees ; northern 4.0 degrees and upper península, 4.4 degrees. Frosts heavy enough to do much damage did not occur in the southern part of the state until after the middle of September. In September the rainfall was exces' sive throughout the lower península. The average in the state was 5.10 inches or nearly twice the normal. It was 5.56 inches in the southern counties, 5.58 in the central and 5.41 in the northern. Compared with the normal there was an excess of 3.02 inches in the southern couuties, 3.06 in the central and 2.73 in the northern. The rainfall in the upper península was 2.02 inches, or .83 below the normal.