The July Crop Report

The July erop report was issued from the office of the secretar? of state last week. It is prepared trom 911 reports made by erop correspondents, and 1,111 returns of farm statiatics from supervisors of townsbips. The footings of the farm statistics are not yet complete, but so far as made indícate that the wheat aereare harvested last year was about 10,000 acres less than reported on the ground in May The total yield exceeded 23,000,000 bushels. The same returns indícate that the total area in winter wheat this year is 1,431,531 acres. This multiplied by the average per acre as estimated by erop correspoadents makes the probable yield this year 21,663,800 bushels. Nearly onetenth of the wheat acreage is reported winter killed, ruined, etc. This includes reported damage by green aphis, but it U quite olear that the damage by this pest cannot be estimated before the grain is thre8hed, and latest reports warrant the hope that it will not be as great as feared earlier in the season. The quantity of wheat reported marketed in June was 382,778 bushels and in 11 months, August-June, 14,789,036. Condition of oom is reported at 58, oats 90, potatoes 91, meadows and pastures 84, and of clover 8own this year 93. Apples and peaches promise about 7-10 of an average erop. The report shows that trom 65,224 acres in Washtenaw county 1,101 633 busbels ot wheat were raised. ïhis year 64,380 acres are plantee! to wheat and the erop is eetimated at 958,618, a falling off of two per cent The estimated average yield per acre is 14.89 bushels. Washteoaw county has suffered more than any of the other eouthern countie?, the estimated damage to wheat damaged being 13 per cent. The average per cent. of crops in this county is estimated as follows : Corn 64, cata 98, potatoes 93, clover 66, timothy 74, apples 81, peaches 68. Fifleen milis and elevators in this couoty purchased 33,643 bushels of wheat during June, making a total of 725,420 bushels marketed here since Aug. 1, 1888.