OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ON THE Acreage and Product of Corn and the Condition of Other Crops, DECEMBER 1, 1904. The following report presents a careful estimate of corn production for the present year, and the condition of other crops, based upon the returns received from the regular township correspondents of the Department. In figuring the corn production, the area considere is that returned by township assessors of the State. WHEAT-Condition compared with an average. 66 .75 per cent. Amount of crop of 1904 sold as soon as threshed.42 per cent. CORN-Area planted in 1904 as returned by township .1 per cent. .2,983,488 acres. .30.8 bushels. .91,993,448 bushels. 3 per cent. ...Oct. 21. .26 per cent. .1.35 bushels. APPLES-Probable total yield compared with an average 56 per cent. TOBACCO-Probable average product per acre..... ...815 pounds. CATTLE-Number being fed for spring market compared with last year ....69 per cent. SHEEP-Number being fed for mutton compared with last year .75 per cent. The corn area this year was a good average in amount as compared with a number of years past, but the product per acre is below an average, and considerably lower than Ohio is able to produce under more favorable conditions; however, the total product for the State, nearly ninety-two millions of bushels, is a remarkably good showing, consider ing that many counties produced very lightly, but it occurs that where production is lightest it is in counties having smallest area, while the counties having large corn area show good and even excellent production, and this accounts for the good results on the whole. Some of the abnormally large crops for this State have exceeded one hundred and ten million bushels, but many more have been less than this year's crop, so that on corn production there is no good reason to complain. The condition of wheat is far from satisfactory or encouraging. The extreme and long continued drouth has prevented growth, and the plant is now, very generally, weak and thin on the ground, and very far from being in proper condition for going into winter. While there are some fairly bright and healthy looking fields, a great many are still bare, and some with no prospect of life. The plant has gone back twelve per cent. since the report of November 1st, and fly is now reported in nearly every county of the State. In some counties the damage from fly is estimated as high as ten per cent., but in the great majority of counties .the damage is estimated at less than five per cent. The average for the State is three per cent. The present prospect for the wheat harvest of 1905 is quite discouraging, and, should the winter be severe, there will very likely be another reduction of wheat area by plowing up in the spring. With regard to other crops referred to in the report, there is nothing particular to note. OFFICIAL REPORT Or THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ON THE ACREAGE AND PRODUCT OF CORN, AND THE CONDITION OTHER CROPS, DECEMBER 1, 1904. OF Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. 61 2.00 Per cent Bushels Per cent Pounds Per cent Per cent 1.50 59 1.50 400 SO 12 860 spring market compared with last year. Number being fed for Number being fed for mut ton compared with last year. |