March Crop Report

For the M&rch orop report, the secretary of state has received reporta from 854 correspondent?, representing 651 townships, 576 being from tbe southern four tiers oL caunties. Four hundred and forty corresponden ts ia the eouthern four tiers of couaties and 128 in the central counties reported wheat was injured duriug February, while 128 in the tormer se :tion and 26 in the latter reported it not injured. The weather condiiions during the month were suoh ai to warrant the belief that the plant was injured. The avemge lemperature for the entire state was 29 degrees, or Bix degrees above the normal, and in the soutbern four tiers of counties it was 32 degrees, or eight degrees above the normal. In the southern aad ceatral sections of the state, wbere 98 per cent of the wheat erop is grown, the average temperature was feven degrees above the normal. In these Fention8 the average day temperature was 7 degrees above, and the average night temperature 7 degrees below the freezing point. Taemean dailv temperature was below the freezing point on only 13 days of the month. Storm? were frequent during February and prevailtd generally on the 4tb, 7ib, 14th, 25th, 26th and 28th, yet the total precipitation in the state was .82 inches below the average. Io the southern four tiers of counties the precipitation was .93 inches and in the central counties .80 inches below the average. Reports were received of the quantity of wheat marketed by farmers during the month of February at 320 elevators and milis. Of these 258 were in the southern four tiers of countiee. The total number of bushela reported marketed is 517,291. The number of busheh reported marketed in Washtenaw county being 23,421, making 200,024 bushels marketed finco last August. , In December an investigaron was begun to ascertain the number of purelybred cattle, that io, cattle that weie reeietered, or entitled to registry, in the state. Seven hundred and ninety-five correspondents responded to the request for information. The Washtenaw county report of purely-bred cattle was a& followa: Devons 13, Hereford '7, Holstein-Friesian 68, Jersey 51, Suffolk 1, and Shorthorn 507. The condition of livestock in the county was a follows: Horses, 96 ; cattle, 94 ; sneep, 96 ; swine, 97. Sixteen correspondent! from this county said that wheat had suflered during the month, while 4 thought th%t it had not.