Crop Report For September

For tliis report correspondents liave secured from threshers the results of 3,757 jobs, aggregating inore than (55,000 acres of wheat threshed in the state, the yield from whicb was 1,091,483 bushels an average of 16.73 bushels per acre. In the southern couuties more tliau 52,000 acres tlireshed averaged 17.;4 bushels per acre. In the central counties the average is 14.02 bushels, and in the northern counties, 15.31 bushels. The area in vvheat in the state last May as compiled ironi the returns of supervisors was 1,513,919 acres. This is the probable acreage that was harvested this year. Multiplying the acres in each county by the average viekl per acre iu tbat couuty, as uovv shown by the results of threshing, gives a probable yield in the state of 24,821,987 bushels. The final estímate of wheat will be made in October. Ifit shall substantiate the foregoing the erop this year is the largest produced since 1892 when the erop exceeded 25,000,000 bushels. The number of bushels of wheat ported naarketed by farmers since the August report was published i.s 1,187,750. Oï this ainount, 400,177 bushels were marketed before August I, faut nol reportéd until late in August, and 7s7,7: busliels in August. The amouut o vvlieat reported marketed sinee the August report was published bushels more thaü reported for llie sanie time in 1896, and the ainouni reporte marketed in the twelve months ending witli July, whicli s the wheat year foi Michigan, is 10,531,053 bushels or 847,880 bushels more thau marketed in the sanie months of the previous ear. The amount of wheat' actuall) narketed in August tliis year, 787,573 jushels, is 335,444 busliels more than narketed in August lasl year. Thresliers' returns ndicate tbat oats will yield in the state about 25 busbels, uní barley about J'J bushels per acre. Tiie figures for oats are five bushels beov, and for barley tvvo bushels below, he estímate one year ago. Corn made slow growth in August, jut it lias not been damaged by (rost uid there is good reason to expect a good and well matured erop. The dry weather lias undonbtedly inured pota toes, but the extent of damage cannot now be estimated. Beans are estimated to yield 87 per cent of an iverage erop. Apples and peaches are very light rops, neitlier will yield more tlian oueifth to one-fourth of an average erop. August was a cool, dry month. The nean temperatura of the state was 64.7 degrees; of the southern counties 66.9; f the central 64.9, and of the northern J2.9 degrees. There was a deficieney in he state and southern counties of 2 egrees, in the central counties of 2.1 iegrees, and in the uorthern of 1.5 degrees. Light frosts pecurred quite genrally throughout the state just after he middle of the niontli but did no material damage. The average precipitation in the state vas 2.04 inches, a deñciency of 0.39 nches. There was deficieney in each ection as follows : Southern counties, .09 inches; central, J. 19 inches ; rn, U.ob mclies, aud upper península, .% inches. The farm statistics of the state re■urned b}' the supervisors last spriug irnished the followiug statistics of the vheat, corn, and oat erop of 1896: cres of wheat harvested, 1,431,203; mshels, 17,858,259; average per acre, 2.48 bushels. Acres of corn liarvested, ,198,009; bushels, 81,733,087. Acres f oats liarvested, 923,228; bushels, 9,110,433. The farm statistics also furnish the ollowing statistics of land in farms in 897 : Acres of improved land in farms, ,020,220; uniinproved, 4,302,093; total rea, 13,322,313; number of farms, 149,34; average size of farms, 891.0 acres. 1 1 i _ -. _. .