174 



Virginia 



North Carolina 

 South Carolina 



Georgia 



Alabama 



Mississiiipi 



Texas 



Arkansas 



Tennessee 



West Virginia . 



Kentucky 



Ohio 



Michigan 



Indiana 



Illiuois 



Wisconsin 



Minnesota 



Iowa 



Missouri 



Kansas 



Nebraska 



Oregon 



California 



Total ... 



A calculation of the percentage of area as given in tbe general table.s 

 which follow this crop report makes the depreciation in the total area 

 3 per cent. The wheat crop of 1871 was estimated at 130,000,000 bush- 

 els, at the close of the harvest, with an average yield of 11^ bushels 

 per acre. If 12 bushels be taken as a fair average, a yield of IH would 

 be a depreciation of 41 per cent. The October returns of estimated 

 product made the total dei:)reciation nearly 7 per cent. The total aver- 

 age of condition in the June returns of the i^resent year is 94, which 

 would iudicate a product (prospects continuing unchauged till harvest) 

 of fully 220,000,000 bushels. This would be 67,000,000 bushels less than 

 the unprecedented crop of 1809. 



An increase of area in spring-wheat is reported in ten counties iu 

 Maiue, and a decrease in one (Piscataquis) of 5 per cent. Somerset 

 gives 15 per cent, increase, and Aroostook 10, the average for all the 

 counties reported being 8 per cent. Very litCie winter-wheat is grown, 

 but there api)ears to be an increase iu the area. Only Lincoln and 

 Sagadahoc report low condition, and the general average is 1 per cent, 

 above. 



Only two counties in Xew Hampshire — Grafton and Strafford — give 

 diminished acreage. Sullivan and Merrimack show an increase. The 

 acreage is equal to the area of the last crop. All except Strafford re- 

 port 100 for condition, making the general average 99. 



Ten counties in Vermont make returns of spring- wheat, seven report- 

 ing the same area as last year, Orleans 105, Chittenden 110, and Orange 

 115. In condition only Bennington is below average, Addison and 

 Orange 120, and the average of all 106, 



In Massachusetts a diminution of 4 per cent, of its very small area ap- 

 pears. In Franklin County, which produces nearly half of the winter- 

 wheat of the State, ami very little spring- wheat, the area of the former 

 lias been reduced 5 per cent., while its condition is 100, or average. Wor- 

 cester, which grows more than half of the spring-wheat of the State, 



