Crop Report For December

The average conditiou of wheat December 1 was 91 per cent of condition in average years. This is nine per cent above condition Decamber 1, 1895. The average condition in the counties is 89; central, 93, and northern, 96. One year ago the condition in these sections respectively waa 78, 86, and 95. The total number of bushels of wheat reported marketed by farmers since the November report was published is 1,296,500, and in thefour months, August, September, October, and November, 4,695,674. This is 577,663 bushels more tl'ian reported marketed in November this year is 101,204 bushels more than reported for November, 1895. Fall pasture has been good and live stock is in fine condition. The mean temperature of the State for November was 35.6 degrees or 0.6 degrees above the normal. There was an excess of 2.5 degrees in the southern counties, of 1.5 degrees in the central, and 0.7 degrees in the northern. The average precepitation, including both rain and melted snow, in the State was 3.47 inches ; in the southern counties, 2.44 inches; in the central, 2.88 iuches, and in the northern, 4.53 inches. Compared with au average or normal there was an excess of 0.56 inches in the State, of 0.25 inches in the central, of 1 .82 inches in the northern counties, and 88 inches in the upper península, and a deficiency of 0.66 inches in the southern counties.