Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-11-07
OUR GREAT SHOWING
THE SPLENDID CONDITION OF THE
CROPS FOR THIS YEAR.

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ords-Rye and Barley Also In Good Con-
dition-Cotton Crop, Though Small,
Bringing Good Prices.
The governments October crop re.
port, published ON Friday, makes it pos
sible to form quite q clear idea of the
harvests Of 1896 in the United States.
According to the official figures the
wheat crop CT 1895 Will be approx.
mately 1876, 600, 600 bushels. But IN
official estimates, in which the trade
seems to repose considerable confidence,
place the total yield nearly as high as
$50, 600, 00G II possibly slightly h1ghc~.
The governments preliminary esti-
mate of the new oats crop throughout
the country is very favorable, giving
the high average yield Of 29.6 bushels
per acre-the highest October average
recorded within five years.
The estimated average yield Of rye
and barley this year is also remarkably
good, being respectively 144 and 2G.i
bushels per acre. No such promising
yield of either Of these crops has been
reported within FIVE years.
But the crop which cuts the most
prominent figure iu the American har-
vests Of 1885 is Indian corn. A year ago
this country was as a great disadvan-
tage by reason Of the failure Of ORR
by far the most important and proiita-
bic Of its cereal crops, In October, 1894,
the government estimated tine general
condition of corn at only ca per cent
figures indicating a very great short.
age and making tine crop about 0ue-third
less than an average. The present gov
eTnTIeut estimates piaCa the general on
Gition Of corn Con Oct. /, 1880 at 95.5
per cent. This is 3J.3 points higher
than tho condition of last years corn
crop at the same date.
1t should be noted also that at this
date the crop is practically secure, the
period when it could be materially in
juTad h. srasE having passed before the
2lst cf September. The year 1892 will
always be memorable i'll American 0gri-
cultural annals for its great Indian
corn harvest, which the department of
agriculture estimated at ?, OG0, 600, 900
bushels. The crop Of 1890 was also phe-
/ ~nouGnal being estimated at 2, ll3, 000,-
600 bushels. But the crop of 1895 is very
considerably larger than ever those Of
1892 and 1890, the present yield Of corn
breaking all records ia America and in
the world, and bidding fair now to ag-
! gregate not very far from 2,300, 600, 900
bushels.
II ii true that the Latest returns of the
department show a decline in the gen
eral condition Of tho cotton crop. The
October estimates indicate a falling off
of 81 points since the LIST Of September
last, and the total yield will evidently
DO far short Of the average and very far
short of the phenomenal crop of 1894.
But ii the southern planters will have
a deficient return in the quantity of cot
ton, they Will not have to sell their prod.
net Mt the low prices prevailing last
year. The great advance i'll the prices
of cotton during the last six months
(Which are now about double the prices
that prevailed in most Of iS94) viii
very largely, if not fully, compensat,
and console the planters for the shortage
of the forthcoming crop.
The official numerical estimates of tbs
corn and other crop conditions per cent
on Oct. l inst. are: