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THE) RURA U NEW-YORKER 
July 2<3, 
CROPS 
Michigan Outlook. 
Wheat is looking fairly well and will 
compare favorably with last year. The 
hay crop will be the poorest in years. 
Much corn had to be replanted, but the 
weather lately has been ideal. Q. T. 
Antrim Co., Mich. 
June 30. We have the lightest hay crop in 
years, many fields not cutting more than 
one-half ton per acre. Oats very short, 
many fields heading not over six or eight 
inches high Nothing but very light 
showers here through May and .Tune. 
Corn is good ; also beans on early plowed 
ground. Potatoes seem to be germinating 
well. Very little wheat sown last Fall 
on account of wet weather which made 
a rather larger acieage of oats than 
usual. J. s. 
Ionia Co., Mich. 
Not much wheat grown here; what 
there is rather poor. Rye, quite a large 
acreage, crop improving with rain. Ilay 
poorest in years. Apples, fair amount 
left from frost and looks fair, say, 75 
per cent. Potatoes, early were frozen, 
later ones look good. Beans look good. 
Corn was frozen slightly, but is looking 
good now; no plums; cherries over half 
a crop; pears about the same; peaches 
about half crop. We are getting rain 
and things are improving, but it is too 
late for hay. H. M. R. 
Kent Co., Mich. 
June 23. The condition of wheat com¬ 
pared with last year is very good, at 
least 125 per cent. I should say, and is 
doing well at present. Oats are poor, 
about 75 per cent, at present. Rain is 
needed. Corn is doing fine. It is 
somewhat uneven but still it averages 
good. Fruit was hartT hit by the frost. 
There will be a few Winter apples but 
no early apples. Peaches are all killed. 
Plums are generally scarce. Pears about 
all killed. Cherries badly killed. Straw¬ 
berries badly hurt but the late rains 
brought on a good many of the late 
blossoms in the retarded patches. 
Kent Co., Mich. g. e. e. 
June 24. Oats are not as good as last 
year. The acreage is less than in 1912. 
Wheat bids fair for a good crop, the 
acreage is less than last year. Wheat 
was nearly a failure here in 1912. Ilay 
will be rather light in this locality; has 
been too dry the forepart of June. Corn 
is looking fair. It is small for the 
time of year but is growing fast now. 
We had a cold backward Spring and 
most of the corn was planted late. 
Calhoun Co., Mich. a. v. s. 
June 26. Ilay extremely light. Wheat 
did not stool out, is very thin, but expect 
it will be better than last year. Oats 
are short but a good stand. Had three 
showers yesterday and think there will 
be a good crop. Corn is small but the 
soil is in a fine condition and I believe 
it will grow very rapid by now. Apples 
are good, although many orchards bore 
heavy last year and have few on this 
year. Peach and plum outlook is good. 
Pears and cherries were hurt some with 
frost. T. E. w. 
Muskegon Co., Mich. 
June 27. Very little wheat raised in 
this part of Northern Michigan. What 
I have seen is in fairly good condition; 
will make a crop of about 25 bushels per 
acre. Oats are quite an important crop, 
about the usual acreage sown and look¬ 
ing very good though backward on ac¬ 
count of the cold, dry season so far. 
Corn and potatoes are also important 
productions, but are not looking promis¬ 
ing for the same reason. Corn looks too 
sickly to make a crop. Potatoes have a 
good chance yet as we are now getting 
some hot weather and seasonable rains. 
This is developing as a fruit and dairy 
country, but is comparatively new. 
Forty years ago it was an untouched 
wilderness. L. T. 
Emmet Co., Mich. 
June 27. Wheat was badly damaged 
by freezing; will make about 50 per cent, 
of 1912 crop. Winter vetch nearly all 
killed as it was not seeded early enough. 
Rye looks fine, 125 per cent, compared 
with 1912. Corn is late but doing 
nicely now. Outlook for beans and po¬ 
tatoes very encouraging. Hay is short, 
about 50 per cent, of 1912. Apples 
promise about 50 per cent. Strawberries 
are about 40 per cent.* Huckleberries 
and blackberries promise good crops. 
Newaygo Co., Mich. II. P. 
June 27. Wheat is looking fair and 
nearing maturity, probably an average 
crop for this locality, there are but few 
fields that look heavy. Compared with 
last season there is a larger acreage for 
harvest as there was at least half of last 
year’s crop plowed up and a failure. 
The frosts in early May and the second 
week in June evidently did a great amount 
of damage to our wheat crop, but how 
much I am unable to* say for certain. 
Frost and hot dry weather have seriously 
affected the hay crop, especially clover. 
Hay will be short of last year’s crop 
and pasture will soon be in bad shape. 
Clover would have been much better 
cut immediately after the heavy frosts 
of June 7-8-9 and the meadows would 
likely have revived and given a big 
second cutting. Alfalfa has proved to be 
as good as ever. It has cut a good first 
crop and is on the boom for the second 
crop. It is far the easiest and most 
profitable grass crop that can be grown 
in this section and from observation I 
believe that there is but little land in 
our State that will not grow Alfalfa if 
conditions are made right. One farm 
here harvested 79 loads of good Alfalfa 
hay from 35 acres of ground for the 
first cutting. Some of this acreage has 
been cut six or more years. 
Corn crop outlook is good. It is too 
early to compare the crop with last 
year’s fine crop, yet the present outlook 
I think is fully up to last year’s prospect. 
We are building many silos in this sec¬ 
tion and there was 300 bushels of Eureka 
silage seed corn sold and planted this 
season, besides much other corn that 
will go into silos. There is corn here 
that is waist high now, also there was 
corn being planted last week. Oats 
started well, but they are heading out 
rather short, and continued hot dry 
weather would work disaster to the crop, 
while a little more rain and more fav¬ 
orable weather would work wonders with 
the crop. For my part I never give 
up and “holler” quit till the last roll 
call, and generally find that I miss a 
lot of fretting about troubles that seldom 
come. Some fruit of all kinds but no 
big crops, all kinds being affected by the 
frosts. Fruit is given very little atten¬ 
tion or care in this locality yet it is a 
splendid fruit growing section, u. c. A. 
Branch Co., Mich. 
June 28. Corn was frosted, but is 
looking good now. Warm weather and 
plenty of rain since June 15. Hay and 
grain promise good; hay was also in¬ 
jured by late hard frost followed by dry 
cool weather. Cherries are also injured 
by frost. There will be about one-third 
of crop. Apples about one-half crop. 
Peaches now look scarce, perhaps one- 
third or one-fourth of crop. Potatoes 
are just planted but the warm weather 
with plenty of rain promises a good 
stand. a. R. L. 
Grand Traverse Co., Mich. 
June 30. Frost and drought in June 
cut wheat and oats very badly. With 
the acreage about normal, production will 
be probably less than 50 per cent of a 
fair yield. Corn and potatoes are in bet¬ 
ter shape, but need rain badly. Hay on 
anything but wet ground is almost a 
total failure. E. F. c. 
Allegan Co., Mich. 
June 30. Not much wheat sown last 
Fall because of wet weather, but the 
small acreage we have is looking fine. 
The dry weather and repeated frosts of 
May and early June seriously damaged 
the hay crop, but recent rains have im¬ 
proved conditions somewhat. The amount 
of wheat and hay to be harvested I 
should say would be below normal. Oats 
have been helped by rains. Wet weather 
retarded corn-planting but the recent 
rains together with the hot weather 
have boomed both corn and beans; the 
latter is the farmer’s money crop in this 
vicinity. An abundance of fruit of all 
kinds will be harvested. c. K. F. 
Lapeer Co., Mich. 
July 1. Oats not grown very much 
here at present. Condition I would say 
is about one-third better. Wheat acre¬ 
age is about the same as last year, but 
at present condition it is only 75 per 
cent, as good as last year. Corn is about 
the same in acreage and condition as 
last year. Apples are about 75 per cent, 
compared with last year; peaches, hardly 
25 per cent.; cherries, about. 50 per cent. 
Hay crop is only 50 per cent. Bean crop 
is 50 per cent, better than last year. 
Kalkaska Co., Mich. o. L. F. 
July 1. Haying in progress; crop is 
rather light. Wheat turning and much 
better than last year, but not a full crop. 
New seeding small, but think it has 
growth enough to live. Larger acreage 
of beans than last year and seem to be 
making growth in spite of the dry 
weather. Some fields of corn looking 
fine, but on the lighter soil not doing 
well on account of drought. Not as 
many potatoes as last year and early 
ones hurt by freeze of June 10. A fair 
crop of cherries, a few peaches and ap¬ 
ples. The following prices paid for pro¬ 
duce: Corn, 60 cents; oats, 38; pota¬ 
toes, new per peck, 40 cents; butter, 22; 
eggs, 17 cents. I. n. w. 
Branch Co., Mich. 
CANADIAN OF CROPS. 
The area under wheat is 9,816,300 
acres, or 57.900 acres more than in 1912. 
The area in Spring wheat is 8,990.500 
acres, or 13,100 acres more than in 1912, 
and the area to be harvested of Fall 
wheat remains at 825,800 acres. 
Oats occupy 9,646.400 acres, an in¬ 
crease of 429,500 acres; barley 1,430,800 
acres, an increase of 15,600 acres; rye 
127,200 acres, a decrease of 8,910 acres, 
and hay and clover 7,621,600 acres, a 
decrease of 12.000 acres. 
The acreages under the later sown 
cereals and hoed crops are estimated to 
be as follows: Buckwheat, 363,600; llax- 
seed, 1,288,(MX); corn for husking, 290,- 
800; beans, 58,850; potatoes, 467,800; 
turnips, etc., 215.900; sugar beets 19,250 
and corn for fodder, 277,990. There are 
increases in the case of potatoes, tur¬ 
nips, etc., sugar beets and corn for 
fodder, but decreases in the case of the 
other crops. 
For Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al¬ 
berta the total wheat area is finally es¬ 
timated at 9.013,800 acres, as compared 
with 8,961,800 acres last year; oats, 
5,305,800 acres, compared with 4.913,900 
acres, and barley, 857.700 acres, com¬ 
pared with 809,900 acres. 
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