Show VIXTER WHEAT I Interesting Figures From the Dc liartment Statistician Washington April 10The condition I of winter wheat on the first day of Ajril a reported by the statistician of i i 4he department of agriculture aver Jthe J3ges 867 per cent for the entire country coun-try last ea the average being 774 In 1892 it was S12 and 969 for the year of 1S91 corresponding average for rye isjr4per th average of wheat for the principal states are as follows Kentucky 83 Ohio 90 Michigan Michi-gan S3 Indiana 90 Illinois 87 Missouri Mis-souri < 88 Kansas 72 Nebraska S5 Iowa Si The average date nf seeding in the Ohia 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 resulted from 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 cinirtry except in cases hereafter noted has been very favorable to the growth of the plant In the eastern northern and northwestern states snow J covering has afforded protection in ad diiion 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 con elusive as is desirable The injury to the crop is undoubtedly considerable i 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 determinate at the date of transmission transmis-sion In the eastern and northern states the damage was comparatively slight In th south Atlantic and south ci n 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 t indicate that freezing to the ground 1 was quite prevalent especially in low and rion moist lands but with roots left untouched or at least alive with good prospects of recuperation on the recurrence of fair weather In the tate of Kansas Nebraska and California fornia the impaired condition of the rop has not resulted so much from the frost as from cold dry weather It High winds are also noted by our Kansas correspondents as < ne of the lauses or unfavorable conditions Rain I Ii much needed in these as well as other important wheat producing states The condition of farm animals together with the estimated losses will be as uual tin In the forthcoming April bulle |