Show OUR FIELDS OF WHEAT I A Complete Reversal of the Prosperous Season or 1884 A Shortage of over 22000000 Bushels on the Pacific Slope A Gloomy Outlook for the European Crops A Complete Kcviciv of the Crops I CHICAGO June 2The growing wheat crop having reached a critical stage and winter I Wheat having approached a condition sufI suf-I ficiently near to maturity to approximate I tho acreage and probable yield tho Farmers I Review has followed upon its usual weekly summary by a complete survey of all the I Western and Southern wheatgrowing States I reports having been received from over 3000 correspondents covering every wheatpro ducing county in Ohio Michigan Nebraska Illinois Kentucky Tennessee Missouri Kansas Iowa Wisconsin Minnesota and Dakota together with a very accurate and recent summary from the Pacific coast region In summing up the detailed reports the Review says The gloomiest views which have been advanced concerning the winter wheat outlook for 1885 must now be accepted as most accurate The promising conditions of 18S4 have this season been completely reversed Tho absolute uniformity of the returns indicates that the outlook for wintersown wheat this year is THE WOEST IN TEN YEAHS I And it may be now set down as positive that I under the most favoring conditions the total winter and spring yield of wheat is to fall considerably under the short crop of 1881 when tho total product was 380000000 bushels With tho exception of Michigan and Oregon and Washington Territory on the Western Slope the causes leading to the decreased output of winter wheat are almost I identical In Ohio Indiana Illinois Kansas Kan-sas and Missouri the ground was bare of snow during the severely cold winter At I the close of the winter which was followed by cold dry winds later on there was also I a decreased acreage owing to low prices which prevailed for the crop of 1885 In I California a decreased acreage was accompanied accom-panied by a severe drouth which has tended to almost KUIN THE OnOWING CHOP Oregon and Washington Territory were i I saved by bountiful showers which came in time to save the grain When the States are considered in detail the situation can be I better appreciated In Illinois 53 per cent of the entire wheat crop of the State has 1 been plowed up and more would have been plowed had not the ground been sown to clover and grass A very large proportion of wheat that is heading out proves to be I chaff and there is no probability that the bread and seed will be had in Southern Illinois Illi-nois this year Four entire counties in the I central and southern tier have been plowed i up and in eight other counties the crop is I reported as an entire failure The average condition of all counties of the State does I I not exceed 16 per cent of the yield of 1885 based upon the fields not yet plowed up In Kansas the same conditions which exist in Illinois arc to be found with this exception that THE HESSIAN FLY HAS BEEN AT WORK More largely in one State than the other The acreage of that State not plowed under is 52 per cent of 1884 and the average condition con-dition of the plant is 53 Missouri presents the same condition spoken of with reference to Kansas and Illinois The winterkilled fields having been plowed under leaving the total acreage remaining at 58 percent of ISSi and the average condition at 52 The I State will not produce moro than onethird of its yield last year In Ohio the northern II tier of counties are making a better showing than the average of the States already given but in all the southern counties the plant I has been badly winterkilled Tho growing acreage has been reduced to 7G per cent of I condition does not last year and the average I exceed 53 per cent of 188i I In portions of Northern Indiana there is i promise of an average yield but in the southern portion of the State the outlook is no more promising than in Ohio and Illinois The yield of the Slate will be 45 per cent of last year In Tennessee the winter wheat prospects have been running down steadily for thirty days and latest advices indicate that the State will not harvest onefourth of the crop of 1884 In Kentucky in a few counties the wheat crop is promising but returns by counties indicate that the crop will not exceed 50 per cent of last year THE PROLONGED DKOUGHT IN CALirOBNIA Has very markedly injured the prospects for Edwin F the crowing crop in that State i Smith secretary of the State Agricultural Society of California has computed the yield of that State for the Associated Press at 5000000 bushels while Oregon and Washington Territory undertheir improved bushels conditions will turn out 12200000 of 12200000 against This is an aggregate Jre4te of 08700000 for the Pacific an Coast aggregate in 1884 or a shortage of 25503000 bushels for the Pacific Coast regions In Michigan the winter wheat belt gives yield While the win promise of an average wheat of other States was bare of snow ter and wheat in Michigan was well protected covered to which cause is to be derived the promising condition of the crop The State I out fully M per cent or an turn promises to I yield average From a compilation and taking the most of the situation the winter cheerful view Yield for tho present year wheat will not exceed 203000000 bushels I from most absolute percentages and trustworthy sources indicate that the yield the figures Sll somewhat under than over will fall I belt outlook Ses The spring wheat fs altogether promising Full returns is altooether more enlarged I Nebraska show a slightly from with last year while in acreage Wisconsin compared and Minnesota the do Iowa will be about 10 per cent of acreage I crease condition is about 9 > per cent Th the while less is about 8 per cent ucreage of Dakota and the conditions fully I than last year is from ten to thc season cquil jhough later The probable spring I twelve days favor continuing I based upon wheat yield be 130000000 bushels able weather will of the country will wheat crop The total outlook be from tire present from therefore bushels against an 320000000 to 33OOOlJOOO of 464000 yield for the past years average 000 bushels quarters as com I 1000000 A deficiency of reported from tho pared with last year is repor nIl be short united Kingdom Jranco I 3000000 quarters |