Counties. CONDITION OF CROPS AND LIVE STOCK, ETC.-Continued. with full average Prospect compared Per cent. CROP AND STOCK REPORT FOR DECEMBER 1, 1891. The following estimated averages for the state are figured from the returns of the regular township crop correspondents of the State: Wheat-Condition of growing plant compared with a full average...... 75 per cent. Crop of 1891 sold as soon as threshed 43 66 66 .. .... Date of cutting for fodder............ 66 Date of cribbing......................... Clover seed-Yield compared with a full average... Apples-Product compared with a full average... Potatoes-Average yield per acre ........................................ Cattle-Fed for spring market compared with last year.. The condition of growing wheat is not flattering, the plant being short and weak. Much of the late seeded is very feeble and thin on the ground. The condition is even less than estimated last month, and falls twenty-five per cent. short of a full average condition. Damage by Hessian fly is reported in sixty-nine counties of the State, and by the white grub worm in twenty-three counties. The estimate of the corn crop made November 1, by percentage comparison on the whole, placed the average product per acre at between thirty-two and thirty-three bushels per acre. The present estimate from returns of bushels per acre makes an average for the State of about thirtythree bushels per acre, and upon this basis the total crop is a fair one, though in the record for the past twenty years there have been eleven larger corn crops, eight of which were over one hundred million bushels. The crop of 1890 was an exceptionally short one, and the crop of this year exceeds it by about 23,000,000 million bushels. The pre ent estimate of the potato crop is about the same as that made November 1, viz., 12,000,000 bushels, an increase over the crop of 1890 of 7,000,000 bushels. |