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June Crop Report

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Lansing, Mich., .Tuly 8. The Michigan erop report of June, just Issued, says correspondents estímate the yield of wheat per acre in bushels, and not in percentage of previous or aver" age crops. The average of the est i mates of wheat for the state is 8.88 bushels. The estímate for the state is the lowest ever made on July 1. It is nearly ti bushels lo-.ver than the estímate of July 1. 1894, and nearly seven bushels lower than the average yield in 18 years, from 1876 to 1893. The light erop is niainly because of the drouth. To this should be added extensive damnge by insocts. The number of bushels of w heat reported marketed in June is 522,311, as comparod with 8(16,301 in .June, 1894. The amount raarketed .n 11 months, August-June, is 10,069,800 bushels, as compared with 14,298,306 in the same months lastyear. The acreage pianted to corn is sligbtly in excess of the acreage last year, and the condition is 91 per cent. of the co idition in average years. Oats are estimated at 61 per cent. of an average erop. Acreage pianted to potatoes is 6 per cent. in excess of average years, and the erop promises 86 per cent. of an average. Corn and potatoes seem to havestood the drouth revnarkably well. If abundance of rain comes soon both crops are expected to yielj fairly well. Meadows and pastures were probably never in poorer condition at this date and spring seedingof clover is nearly all lost. The outlook for apples and peaohes is not encouraging. Formar promises perhaps one-third, the latter five-eightsof an average erop.

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