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Michigan Crop Report

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
July
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Secretary of State has furnisht-d the following statement of acreage and yield of wheat and condition of other crops : At the time the supervisors took the assessment last spring, the area in wheat in southern counties was 1,414.820 acres; in central counties 203,719 acre?; in northem counties 34,984 acres. Correspondent? estímate the yielil per acre in southern counties at thirteen bushels, in central counties at fifteen bushei, and in northem counties at fourteen and three-fourths bushels. If the estimates prove substantially accurate, the total yield in the state will be about 21,600,000 bushels. In estimatin? the yield, correspondentg have undoubtedly used their best judgment, yet the condition of the erop at the time of harveat was such that reliable estimates were impossible It is believed that threshicgs alone can furni&h & correct statement of the yield per acre. A large percentage of the erop, particularly in southern counties, was flattened to the ground, the result of injury by Hessian fly. Nearly five-sixths ot reporta from the southern four tiers of counties show damage from this pest, and not a county is exempt. The damage 9 estimated at from two per cent. in Lapeer, six in St. Clair, ten in Oakland and twelve in Genesee, Hillsdale and Macomb, ail nerth eastern counties, except Hillsdale, to thirtyfive in Iugham and Jaokson, thirty-seven it Washtenaw and thirty eight in Livingston. The damage by fly is not as great iu the centrei and northern coucties as in the southern, at ltast at the time reports were made. On July 1 the damage was not so apparent. The wheat erop of 1886 amounted to 27,540,131 bushels; the average yield per acre in southern counties was 17J bushele, in central counties 16 bushels and in northern counties 12-J bushels. The average for the state was 17 bushels. Number of bushels of wheat reponed marketed in the month of June is 273,764; number of busbels marketed since August 1, 1886, is 12,607,035. The condition of other crops compared with vitality and growth of average years is for the state as follows: CorD, 99 per cent; oats, 92; barley, 90; clover, meadows and pastures, 87; timothy, meadows and pastures, 87; clover sowed this year, 74 per cent.; apples in the southern four tiers of countiee promise 67 per cent.; in the central counties, 74 per cent.; in the northern counties 88 per cent of an average erop.

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