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VOL. XIX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, SEPT. 20,1884. NO. 38. CROP ABROAD. j&b Yield and Acreage of Crops in England. The estimate of average yield in an aver- i^eason and the yield of crops in 1884 for (tveral districts in each county in Eng- ^nJ, published in the Mark Lane Express, ,ork out for the whole country as follows, ij bushels per acre: Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas. ..wrW yield 28-8 M.2 43.2 31.7 29.4 ,r;jinl*vl -.30.3 33 4 39.8 28.0 25.7 These figures show that all the grain and ,jlse crops, except wheat, are under aver- k^ and there is reason to believe, from sports of threshings, that the wheat crop B not equal to the expectations embodied ;3 the estimates made before threshing k^l commenced. It will be understood [jut the average yield, as well as that of ;<*!, is based on estimates only, as there & no means of ascertaining with any ap- rioach to certainty what the produce of sops in England has been even after they kjve all been threshed. It will be interesting to compare the «s- umtted yields of the crops for each ot the iree years ending with 1884', based on re- ijmscollected by the Mark Lane Express unnally: Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans Peas. _.___ 27.0 34.5 43.4 31.5 28.7 „ "~ 23.4 35.4 43.6 32.4 28.7 ^"™"™ 30.3 33.4 39.8 26.0 25.7 Here the superiority of the wheat crop ud the inferiority of the other crops in !V<I to those of the previous two years uv be seen at a glance. The agricultural returns for Ireland, sued on August 21, show that there are aly 68,008 acres of wheat in that country iis year. This acreage, and about 5,000 ires for the Isle of Man and the channel jlinds, added to the 2,676,477 acres in ,reat Britain, bring the wheat area in the Inited Kingdom up to 2,749,485 acres. It mow confidently stated by authorities j England that the yield of wheat will be ader 30 bushels. The Mark Lano Express, a sn article published on August 25, joints out that if the produce for Great Britain should turn out to be 30 bushels urre the total will be 10,036,039 quarters. flowing 25 bushels per acre for the rest ,!thekingdom thequantity is brought up t little under 10,268,000 quarters as an 8 estimate. In the opinion of the ipress the thousands should be taken off mccountof the reported resultsof threshes leaving 10,000,000 quarters as the crop /the year for theUnited Kingdom. "Deleting from this," our contemporary lids, "1,000,000 quarters fot seed and other s« on farms, we have remaining 9,000,- '.') quarters for making into flour, leaving to import at.least 16,000,000 quarters for iter's consumption, now probably over yw,000 quarters. . The area of the wheat crop in England ci Scotland, as shown by the summary the agricultural returns for,, Great iittio, published on the 19th ult., is :ich less than it was believerf to be, being It 2,676,477 acres, as compared with 2,- M« acres In 1883 and 3,003,960 acres in i Last year's acreage was unusually till because of the extreme difficulty of "Tnginthe autumn of 1882, and it was orally expected that after such a very arable seed-time as that of last autumn ocreage of 1882 would nearly or quite be reached. It is true that the average price of wheat got down to 40s. per quarter before seed-time last summer, and that was a great discouragement to sowing wheat; but in spite of that it was believed that the favorable sowing conditions had tempted farmers to put in the usual acreage of the cereal. In the failure of this expectation there is food for reflection. The prices of new wheat have started at 8a. per quarter less than the prices of last harvest, and it is fully expected that the average price will be nearer 30s. than 40s. per quarter before seed-time. What will British farmers do under such circumstances? It will not be surprising if they reduce their wheat area to 2,000,000 acres. The unexpected smallness of the wheat area reduces the estimate of the produce by at least a million quarters, and as the best authorities named 11,000,000 quarters as the probable produce when they sup> posed the area to be close to 3,000,000 acres, the figure must now come down to 10,000- 000 quarters, which leaves 9,000,000 quarters available for human consumption, leaving 16,000,000 quarters to be Imported in order fo meet a year's consumption in the United Kingdom. It is true that the Irish acreage is not included in the returns, but as that was under 100,000 acres last year it does not count for much, and it is allowed for in the altered estimate. In other respects the returns are not remarkable. There are 2,159,485 acres of barley, as compared with 2,291,991 in 1883 and 2,255,269 in 1882; 2,892,576 acres of oats, against 2,975,381 in 1883 and 2,833,865 in 1882; 562,344 acres of potatoes, whereas the figures for the two preceding years were 543,445 and 541,064, and 69,258 acres of hops, as compared with 68,016 in 1883 and 65,619 in 1882. As to live stock,- with the exception of a small falling off in the number of pigs, as compared with the number in 1883, though not as compared with that of 1882, there is an increase, as the following table shows: Cattle. Sheep and Lambs. Pigs. 1882 5,807,491 24,319,7(18 2,510,402 1883 5,962,779 25,068,271 2,617,757 1884 ,£211,127 26,037,217 2,582,323 The returns were collected on the 4th of June. s Or s ■ "WHEAT AND OORN. Five Hundred Million Bushels of the Former, and 1,800,000,000 of the Latter. According to the September report of tho Agricultural Department: The product of winter wheat is above the average, and it is generally of good quality, except where injured by sprouting in the shock. The rate of yield in not far from an average of 13 bushels per acre. The results of the harvest of spring wheat are not yet complete, and the product cannot be precisely indicated. It is probable, from the reported condition of the crop already harvested and threshed, that the aggregate will vary little from 500,000,- 000 bushels. Reports of much higher figures are sensational and misleading, and utterly unworthy credence. The general average condition, when harvested, is 98, against 83 last year. The condition is almost identical with that reported in September 1879, the census crop, which yielded 13 bushels per acre. " The wheat States of highest condition are California, Wiscon sin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon. Those of minor production show figures higher than the general average—Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas standing at 98, Ohio and Michigan 96, Indiana 94, and Illinois 80. The eastern and southern States range from 81 in Mississippi to 103 in Maine. The corn crop is in better condition than in any September since 1880. The general average is 94. It was 84 last September, 83 in 1882, and 60 in 1881. It promises to produce an average yield of 26 bushels for the entire breadth, or not less than 1,800,000,- 000 bushels. It will make tho largest aggregate quantity ever reported in the history of the crop. The London agent of the department says as aresult of statistical investigations, that the year will not be one of abundance; that European wheat, though above the average in product, will be less than the aggregate of 1882. European importing countries will need 260,000,000 bushels above production. European countries exporting can supply 80,000,000 bushels, leaving 180,000,000 bushels to be obtained from other continents. Stocks are not excessive. There is increased consumption of wheat, and it is the general opinion that the lowest prices have been reached. Potatoes and rye are less abundant than last year. ly exports of provisions from this country have recently shown a falling off equal to the product of 50,000 hogs. In order that the presidential election will not interfere with it, the Kansas City Fat Stock show is changed from October 29 to November 6, to October 25 to November 1. Canada imported 324,000 barrels of flour from the United States last year, and 3,- 000,000 bushels of wheat. The tariff on flour is 50 cents per barrel, and on wheat 15 cents per bushel. The city of Paris has acquired a lease of 27,000 acres of the low-lying forest of St. Germain and the adjoining meadows, upon which it proposes to experiment upon utilizing the sewage of the capital. While workmen were recently engaged in taking off the roof of the old opera house at Vicksburg, Miss., they found a twenty-pound parrot shell buried in the timbers and unexploded. It must have lodged there during the siege of 1863. <&mzvixl _izxviSo Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out near Cynthiana, Ky. Mountain lions are playing havoc with tho cattle in Montana. Two large barns in Traer, Iowa, were burned by lightning on tho evening of the 4th inst. Immense quantities of sweet potatoes are being shipped from the eastern shore of Virginia. Jersey cattle are to be excluded from the Chicago fair by order of the State Board of Agriculture. Abram Eenick, the noted Kentucky Shorthorn breeder, died in Clark county, Ky., recently. A diminished crop of hops and'a brisk export demand will affect the price chiefly of the best grades. In the city of Canton, China, which has a population of 1,500,000, there is not a newspaper of any kind. Twenty-four postage stamps to^each person was the average sale in the United States during the past year. In western New York the apple crop is the best in the world—there will be over four millions of barrels harvested. A specimen of every plant named in the Bible is said to be growing in the gardens of the Missouri Botanical Society, near St. Louis. A Newburg (N. Y.) man has 200 different sorts of apples ; grafted on one tree. One hundred and fifty-seven of them were in bearing last year. Since March 1 to date Chicago packers have slaughtered and salted 1,423,000 hogs, against 1,403,000 for the corresponding period last year. As compared with a year ago, the week- Letter from an English Hoosier. Editors Indiana Farmer: I am a Britisher,prospecting in this great State of yours, with the intention of locating here or hereabouts, and whilst loafing—that's the proper term for idling,is it not?—I have spent several happy and I hope profitable nours, in looking over the pages of the Indiana Farmer, a journal,I think replete with information, ability and profit to us tillers of tho soil. The gentleman, Mr. George Keith, who kindly loans me the paper, tells me he could not do without it. I notice in your leader, on the future prospect of wheat raising in India, you quote from Bradstreet, justly and generally a very high authority on matters commercial in America, but in this instance I think "slightly off." In this, as in most othor questions, our Wm. Stuart Gladstone's head is level, if he does not part his hair in the center. "The Select Committee may condemn the proposal, but if" the grand old man thinks it necessary and pro bono publico, it will be accomplished. For information, not criticism, was it not a lapsus penntr, when the London Globe wrote that Joseph of Austria dines from a cut "off" a joint. You erudite Americans,"you know," are a little severe on us poor, ignorant Englishmen, when we feed the Aarmy in thei/east with Aonions, etc. The most salutary article I notice in your issue of the 6th inst., and one most worthy of perusal and which to my thinking, ought to be read by every citizen of this great continent, is that on Brie a brae. I visit no house, or call at few farms, but the same ideas Aunt Addie suggests,come to my mind as do those of Mr. D. L. Thomas, of Rushville. I much regret to see so many cases of pleuro pnemonia and hog cholera in this vicinity, when so good a preventive and cure is manufactured by one of your skilled veterinary surgeons, by the name of Haas, or something like that, and I have looked in vain for his card in your widely circulated pages. I fear the Doctor lacks Yankee enterprise, dses he not? Every farmer in this country should read, mark, learn and inwardly digest, your useful remarks on "Feeding Cows During Drouth,"and "Improvement of the English Dairyj" then they would have no occasion to import stock. Apologizing for thus tresspassing, I am, your grateful and obedient servant, Loogootee. W. E. D. B. —Will our correspondent,whom we have taken the liberty of styling a Hoosier, please inform us in what respect the Brad- street article is "off" in its estimate on wheat raising in India. We hope to hear from W. E. D. B. again, and will suggest as a subject his impressions on Indiana as a farming country and Hoosier farming. —Eds.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1884, v. 19, no. 38 (Sept. 20) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA1938 |
Date of Original | 1884 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
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Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. XIX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, SEPT. 20,1884. NO. 38. CROP ABROAD. j&b Yield and Acreage of Crops in England. The estimate of average yield in an aver- i^eason and the yield of crops in 1884 for (tveral districts in each county in Eng- ^nJ, published in the Mark Lane Express, ,ork out for the whole country as follows, ij bushels per acre: Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Peas. ..wrW yield 28-8 M.2 43.2 31.7 29.4 ,r;jinl*vl -.30.3 33 4 39.8 28.0 25.7 These figures show that all the grain and ,jlse crops, except wheat, are under aver- k^ and there is reason to believe, from sports of threshings, that the wheat crop B not equal to the expectations embodied ;3 the estimates made before threshing k^l commenced. It will be understood [jut the average yield, as well as that of ;<*!, is based on estimates only, as there & no means of ascertaining with any ap- rioach to certainty what the produce of sops in England has been even after they kjve all been threshed. It will be interesting to compare the «s- umtted yields of the crops for each ot the iree years ending with 1884', based on re- ijmscollected by the Mark Lane Express unnally: Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans Peas. _.___ 27.0 34.5 43.4 31.5 28.7 „ "~ 23.4 35.4 43.6 32.4 28.7 ^"™"™ 30.3 33.4 39.8 26.0 25.7 Here the superiority of the wheat crop ud the inferiority of the other crops in !V posed the area to be close to 3,000,000 acres, the figure must now come down to 10,000- 000 quarters, which leaves 9,000,000 quarters available for human consumption, leaving 16,000,000 quarters to be Imported in order fo meet a year's consumption in the United Kingdom. It is true that the Irish acreage is not included in the returns, but as that was under 100,000 acres last year it does not count for much, and it is allowed for in the altered estimate. In other respects the returns are not remarkable. There are 2,159,485 acres of barley, as compared with 2,291,991 in 1883 and 2,255,269 in 1882; 2,892,576 acres of oats, against 2,975,381 in 1883 and 2,833,865 in 1882; 562,344 acres of potatoes, whereas the figures for the two preceding years were 543,445 and 541,064, and 69,258 acres of hops, as compared with 68,016 in 1883 and 65,619 in 1882. As to live stock,- with the exception of a small falling off in the number of pigs, as compared with the number in 1883, though not as compared with that of 1882, there is an increase, as the following table shows: Cattle. Sheep and Lambs. Pigs. 1882 5,807,491 24,319,7(18 2,510,402 1883 5,962,779 25,068,271 2,617,757 1884 ,£211,127 26,037,217 2,582,323 The returns were collected on the 4th of June. s Or s ■ "WHEAT AND OORN. Five Hundred Million Bushels of the Former, and 1,800,000,000 of the Latter. According to the September report of tho Agricultural Department: The product of winter wheat is above the average, and it is generally of good quality, except where injured by sprouting in the shock. The rate of yield in not far from an average of 13 bushels per acre. The results of the harvest of spring wheat are not yet complete, and the product cannot be precisely indicated. It is probable, from the reported condition of the crop already harvested and threshed, that the aggregate will vary little from 500,000,- 000 bushels. Reports of much higher figures are sensational and misleading, and utterly unworthy credence. The general average condition, when harvested, is 98, against 83 last year. The condition is almost identical with that reported in September 1879, the census crop, which yielded 13 bushels per acre. " The wheat States of highest condition are California, Wiscon sin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon. Those of minor production show figures higher than the general average—Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas standing at 98, Ohio and Michigan 96, Indiana 94, and Illinois 80. The eastern and southern States range from 81 in Mississippi to 103 in Maine. The corn crop is in better condition than in any September since 1880. The general average is 94. It was 84 last September, 83 in 1882, and 60 in 1881. It promises to produce an average yield of 26 bushels for the entire breadth, or not less than 1,800,000,- 000 bushels. It will make tho largest aggregate quantity ever reported in the history of the crop. The London agent of the department says as aresult of statistical investigations, that the year will not be one of abundance; that European wheat, though above the average in product, will be less than the aggregate of 1882. European importing countries will need 260,000,000 bushels above production. European countries exporting can supply 80,000,000 bushels, leaving 180,000,000 bushels to be obtained from other continents. Stocks are not excessive. There is increased consumption of wheat, and it is the general opinion that the lowest prices have been reached. Potatoes and rye are less abundant than last year. ly exports of provisions from this country have recently shown a falling off equal to the product of 50,000 hogs. In order that the presidential election will not interfere with it, the Kansas City Fat Stock show is changed from October 29 to November 6, to October 25 to November 1. Canada imported 324,000 barrels of flour from the United States last year, and 3,- 000,000 bushels of wheat. The tariff on flour is 50 cents per barrel, and on wheat 15 cents per bushel. The city of Paris has acquired a lease of 27,000 acres of the low-lying forest of St. Germain and the adjoining meadows, upon which it proposes to experiment upon utilizing the sewage of the capital. While workmen were recently engaged in taking off the roof of the old opera house at Vicksburg, Miss., they found a twenty-pound parrot shell buried in the timbers and unexploded. It must have lodged there during the siege of 1863. <&mzvixl _izxviSo Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out near Cynthiana, Ky. Mountain lions are playing havoc with tho cattle in Montana. Two large barns in Traer, Iowa, were burned by lightning on tho evening of the 4th inst. Immense quantities of sweet potatoes are being shipped from the eastern shore of Virginia. Jersey cattle are to be excluded from the Chicago fair by order of the State Board of Agriculture. Abram Eenick, the noted Kentucky Shorthorn breeder, died in Clark county, Ky., recently. A diminished crop of hops and'a brisk export demand will affect the price chiefly of the best grades. In the city of Canton, China, which has a population of 1,500,000, there is not a newspaper of any kind. Twenty-four postage stamps to^each person was the average sale in the United States during the past year. In western New York the apple crop is the best in the world—there will be over four millions of barrels harvested. A specimen of every plant named in the Bible is said to be growing in the gardens of the Missouri Botanical Society, near St. Louis. A Newburg (N. Y.) man has 200 different sorts of apples ; grafted on one tree. One hundred and fifty-seven of them were in bearing last year. Since March 1 to date Chicago packers have slaughtered and salted 1,423,000 hogs, against 1,403,000 for the corresponding period last year. As compared with a year ago, the week- Letter from an English Hoosier. Editors Indiana Farmer: I am a Britisher,prospecting in this great State of yours, with the intention of locating here or hereabouts, and whilst loafing—that's the proper term for idling,is it not?—I have spent several happy and I hope profitable nours, in looking over the pages of the Indiana Farmer, a journal,I think replete with information, ability and profit to us tillers of tho soil. The gentleman, Mr. George Keith, who kindly loans me the paper, tells me he could not do without it. I notice in your leader, on the future prospect of wheat raising in India, you quote from Bradstreet, justly and generally a very high authority on matters commercial in America, but in this instance I think "slightly off." In this, as in most othor questions, our Wm. Stuart Gladstone's head is level, if he does not part his hair in the center. "The Select Committee may condemn the proposal, but if" the grand old man thinks it necessary and pro bono publico, it will be accomplished. For information, not criticism, was it not a lapsus penntr, when the London Globe wrote that Joseph of Austria dines from a cut "off" a joint. You erudite Americans,"you know," are a little severe on us poor, ignorant Englishmen, when we feed the Aarmy in thei/east with Aonions, etc. The most salutary article I notice in your issue of the 6th inst., and one most worthy of perusal and which to my thinking, ought to be read by every citizen of this great continent, is that on Brie a brae. I visit no house, or call at few farms, but the same ideas Aunt Addie suggests,come to my mind as do those of Mr. D. L. Thomas, of Rushville. I much regret to see so many cases of pleuro pnemonia and hog cholera in this vicinity, when so good a preventive and cure is manufactured by one of your skilled veterinary surgeons, by the name of Haas, or something like that, and I have looked in vain for his card in your widely circulated pages. I fear the Doctor lacks Yankee enterprise, dses he not? Every farmer in this country should read, mark, learn and inwardly digest, your useful remarks on "Feeding Cows During Drouth,"and "Improvement of the English Dairyj" then they would have no occasion to import stock. Apologizing for thus tresspassing, I am, your grateful and obedient servant, Loogootee. W. E. D. B. —Will our correspondent,whom we have taken the liberty of styling a Hoosier, please inform us in what respect the Brad- street article is "off" in its estimate on wheat raising in India. We hope to hear from W. E. D. B. again, and will suggest as a subject his impressions on Indiana as a farming country and Hoosier farming. —Eds. |
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