Michigan Crop Report For August

The estimates in this report are based on more than 800 returns received since August 1. Wheat is estimated to yield in the southern counties 10.33 bushels; in the central 12.14 bushels and in the northern 11.48 bushels per acre, the average for the State being 10.91 bushels per acre. One year ago the estimates were for the southern counties 15.57 bushels, for the central eounties 15.05 bushels, and for the northern 15.46 bushels, the average for the State being 15.47 bushels. The reports as to quality vary greatly f rom the same and from adjoining localities, some of the correspondents reporting the quality "'good," others "average, " and still others "very poor." In the State 265 report the quality "good" 373 "average" and 104 "bad.'' The number of bushels of wheat reported marketed in July is 437,804 as compared with 847, 972 reported marketed in July, 1894, and the amount marketed in the twelve months, August -July is 11,007,604 bushels as campared with 15,146,278 bushels in the same months last year. Oats are estimated to yield 22 bushels per acre in the southern counties, 23 in the central, and 17 in the northern, the average for the State being 21. The average condition of corn is 79 per cent. .comparsion being with vitality and growth of average years, and potatoes in State are estimated to yield 70 per cent of an average erop. The estimated yield of hay per acre is only three-tenths of the yield in average years. and the condition of meadows and pastures is but 31 per cent. of condition in average years. Clover sowed thls year is nearly an entire failure, the estimates showing condition but 13 per cent of an average. Apples promise soarely more than one-fourth of an average erop. The mean temperature of the State for July was (57.8 degrees, which is abovt 1.0 degree below the normal. It was below the normal in each of the four sections of the State. The mean of the maximum temperature was 80.6 degrees, and the mean of the minimum 54.8 degrees. The average precipitation in the State during July was 1.28 inchos, which was about one-half the normal. The average in the southern four tiers of counties was 1.62 inches as compared with the normal of 2.51 inches. The average rainfall in the central counties was about one-third, and in the northern one-fourth ot the normal. Thore was practically no rainfall in the lower peninsula bef ore about the middle of the month. Three light ralos have since passed over the State, the ürst occuring on the 15th, the second on the 19th to Sist, and the third on the 27th and 29th.