Show WINTER WHEAT Interesting Figures From the Be liaclment Statistician Washington April 10The condition of winter wheat on the first day of Aril a reported by the statistician of Thc department of agriculture aver J1hC J ages S67 per cent for the entire country coun-try last ea the average being 774 In 1892 i was S12 and 969 for the year of 1S91 The correspondln average for v ryeriST4fper Thsaverageof wheat for the principal states are as follows Kentucky S3 Ohio 90 Michigan Michi-gan S3 Indiana 90 Illinois S7 Missouri Mis-souri SS Kansas 72 Nebraska 85 Iowa 87 The average date nf seeding in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys was late owing > to dry weather In general however how-ever the conditions of soil were not unfavorable to planting and germination germina-tion Very little damage resultedfrom the Hessian fly and that only in SECtions SEC-tions of Ohio Michigan Illinois Missouri Mis-souri and Kansas The weather from seeding time until the recent cold waves swept over the courtry except in cases hereafter noted has been very favorable to the t growth of the plant In the eastern t northern and northwestern states snow covering ha afforded protection in ad diIon to that of a mild temperature The returns in regard to the effects h on wheat resulting from the recent cold snaps are not so satisfactory nor conclusive con-clusive as is desirable The injury to the crop is undoubtedly considerable if not great but the comments of correspondents cor-respondents accompanying the reports would seem to indicate that the full extent of the damage was not generally determinable at the date of transmission transmis-sion In the eastern and northern I states the damage was comparatively slight In the south Atlantic and southern south-ern states the injury was marked and decided with perhaps the exception of Texas while in the states of Ohio Indiana In-diana Michigan and Kentucky injury from frost is considerable the extent of some is contingent upon the future meteorological conditions The returns I indicate that freezing to the ground L was quite prevalent especially in low and rich moist lands but with roots left untouched or at least alive with good prospects of recuperation on the recurrence of fair weather In the Mate of Kansas Nebraska and California fornia the impaired condition of the trop has not resulted so much from the frost as from cold dry weather High winds are also noted by our Kansas correspondents as < ne of the 1 lauses ol unfavorable conditions Rain is much needed in these as well as other important wheat producing states The condition of farm animals together with the estimated losses will be ash tin as-h ual in the forthcoming April bulle |