Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-11-18
WASHINGTON LEADS.
Barley and Hops Have Done Well
in This State.

Barley and Hops Have Done We'll
in This State.
The official crop circular of the Agri
cultural Department for October is ar
excellent advertisement OF the re
sources of this State.
Thirty States have sent in report.
on the barley crop of 1898. Washing
ton stands first with an average of 39.s
bushels per acre. Utah comes next
with 81 bushels and Idaho third with
30. From this the list dwindles down
to l6 bushels for Kentucky and only
1913 for poor old California. The aver
age for the entire country is placed a,
2l.G-a little over one-half of Wash.
ington's average yield.
In the average for quality of barley
Washington again stands first with a
report of 9S per cent; California next
with 95; and Michigan and Wisconsin
are tied with 90.
Only five States are included in the
report on the hop crop. Washington
leads with | $50 pounds per acre. Next
comes Oregon with 1,150 pounds
California, 1000 pounds; New York
$50 pounds; Wisconsin, 400 pounds.
In the oat crop report, Idaho leads
with an average OF 1876 bushels pei
acre.. Washington is n good second
with 41.9 bushels. Next comes Mon.
tana with 4O.6 bushels. Forty-fve
States and Territories report on this
grain, North Carolina claiming only
lib bushels to the acre-about one
third as much as Washington or Idaho
The average for all is 27.S bushels.
Five States beat Washington for rye
and three Others are just equal. The
best reports are: Minnesota, 2O.t
bushels per acre: Utah, 1915 bushels
Vermont, 19.l; Iowa, 10; Nebraska
1873. Washington, Maine, Connecti
cut and Colorado are tied at Is. The
average for all, 36 States and Territor
les reporting, is I5.6 bushels.
Thirteen States raised more Irish
potatoes to the acre than Washington
two raised just the same amount, and
80 reports are not so good as this
State. The leaders are Idaho, liz
bushels; Montana, 100 bushels; Utah
81 bushels; Washington reports sc
bushels, while the average for the en-.
tire country is 72.5.
Washington is not corn State, and
averaged but IS bushels to the acre
while the average for all States re.
porting was 80. New Hampshire
made the best record with 102 bushels
Kentucky came next with 10I; Yer.
mont third with 100. Nebraska raised
but 81 bushels to the acre and Kansas
So.
Figures for wheat by States are not
given in this report, but this para.
graph from the report is of interest:
"The estimates of production given
in the above table make the crop OF
1898 the largest on record, but the
worlds reserve stocks had run ex-
tremely low before the harvest. Beer.
bohm's statement of the worlds visible
supply on September l, when reduced
to bushels of GO pounds, gives the fol.
lowing figures for the eight years
lS9l-9S: 1891, 96,4O0,O00; 1892, 12O,-
464, 600; 1893, 156,OSO,OOO; 1894, $780,.
100000; 1895, l2S, 10000; 1896, 1OI,-
256,OOO; 1897, 63,6SS,OOO; 1898, 49,.
$40, 600. The decrease in the invisible
supply must also have been large, and
comparing the present year with 1894
Beerbohm's estimates the present re.
serve stock, visible and invisible, to be
0,OO0,O 900 quarters (320,OO0,0O0 bush.
els) less than in that year, whereas the
crop, according to the same authority,
is only 100000 quarters $4,000, ,0OC
bushels) greater. The worlds supply
for lS9S-99 would thus be $1,000, ,OOC
bushels less than was that for 1S94-95
while the propulation to be supplied
must be over 20,O0O,000 greater"