The October Crop Report

From the October erop report issued by the secretary of state, the following facts are taken : The probable wheat product this year in Michigan amounts to 23.581,504 bushels, more than last year, but a little less than the average in nine years, 1878-86. The average yield per acre was 15.6T bushei. The wheat erop of the Uni'ed states this year probably is frotn 395,000,000 to 405,000,000. " The yield per acre of oats in the southern four tiers of counties is 36 and 48-hundreths bushels; in the central, 30 and 87-hundredths bushels ; and in the northern counties 18 and 58-hundredthg bushels. "Barley averages 28 and 3-hundredths büshels pèr acre in the state. " Corn is estimated to yield 62 bushels of ears in the southern counties, 64 bushels of ears in the central counties, and 56 bushels of ears in the northern counties. These figures indícate an average for the State of about 31 bushels of shelled corn, or 4 bushels more than the average in the nine years 1878-86. The severe drouth and frost have greatly injured this erop. Some of the correspondents rep rt it to have ' dried ripe,' and many of them that it was cut early to save the fodder. "Potatoes are about three fourths of a full average erop. Late potatoes are of good quality and fair size. The area in potatoes was above the average, and had the rainfall been average in amount and well distributed, the erop would have been the heaviest ever grown in the State."