Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-11
Director Sage Shows Average Per
Acre and Total Yield Of Staple
Products.
Reliable Statistics of the Farm Pro.
ducts Harvested in Iowa
in 1899.
Aggregate Value Including Gain by
Feeding Not Less Than
s23O.OOO,ooO.
pecial to Times Republican.

has issued the final report for the sea-
son on Iowa crop, showing the average,
per acre and total yield of staple prod
ucts. The report is as follows:
Final reports for the season have been
received from the county and township
correspondents of the Iowa weather
and crop service, giving the average
yield of the staple soil products, and |
the average home prices obtainable
therefor on or about Dec. l. Special I
bic statistics of the acreage of the sta
pie farm crops harvested this year, and |
by using the official returns of town
ship assessors as the basis of estimates
it is believed that the figures given
herewith are approximately correct
The reports as To the average yield
per acre have been made by large
corps of able and experienced crop re-
porters. most of whom are practical
farmers and their conservative esti-
mates are accepted as reliable. These
reports have been tabulateel by coun-
ties, and the following summary Is
made for the state:
Wheat-The greater part of the win
ter wheat acreage sown in the fall of
1898 was lost by wnter-killing, and
much difficulty has been experienced in
securing data as to the area saved and
actually harvested. The returns indi-
cate 4 total yield of only 226.040 bush
els. with an average OF about eleven
bushels per acre. In 1898 the total was
9, 1853 900 bushels. The spring wheat
acreage harvested this year was 1889,
s9l acres, and the total yield WAS 49,,
574. 7s2 bushels. Average per acre, 12.7
bushels. The average farm price Of
winter wheat is IS cents, and spring
wheat is 81 cents per bushel Total
value of wheat crop on Dec /, s10.50l,
| 400
tCnrn--The area of corn harvested
was s. 400, 521 acres. The. average yield
| in the respective counties was quite
variable. ranging from twenty-five To
lsforty-five bushels per acre. Five coun-
ties reported averages per acre Of
| Twenty-Five to twenty-nine bushels;
4 seventy-three counties. thirty to tnr-s
liy-nine bushels: and twenty-one coun-
| ties, forty to forty-five bushels. The
| aggregate for the state was SOC. S52.114
| bushels, an average of 362 bushels per
acre In 1895 the state average was
s4.5 bushels, and the total 2S9,2l4S5o
4 bushels.
The average farm value of corn III
! the state. Dec. 1, is placed at % cents
/ per bushel, showing the market value
of the crop Of that date, $40, i29,il5. AZ
i fully 50 per cent of the crop Will he
consumed within the state, the mere
ment gained by marketing 1t in the
form OF beef, pork. mutton, dairy
i goods, etc, Will make the total value Of
i the crop at least sl05, 100000.
! Oats-The acreage OF oats harvested
was 4,063, 557 acres, and total yield Is
i reported To be 140.6i7,309 bushels-ali
leverage of $40 bushels per acre. The
average farm price on Dec. ! was II
Icents per bushel. making the total
! value of the crop s26,122,9SS.
Barley-Area of barley harvested.
,5759 acres: average per acre. 2o!6
4 bushels; total yield. l4,7l9.3l1 bushels.
Farm price, 80 cents per busnel. Value
s. of crop on Dec. J.. si.4l5.579
4 Rye-Area harvested, 1926 acres
4 total yield. 2,o61l69 bushels; average
per acre. 1863 bushels. Farm price on
/ IIDec. L. 40 cents per bushel; total value
4 OF crop. sS24,467-
Flax--Number of acres harvested
l42l75; average per acre, l1.2 bushels;
a total yield l597.979 bushels. Farm
tIvalue, sl.o4 per bushel. Value of crop
$l.s6l SOS.
Potatoes Area harvested. 154s24,
acres, average yield per acre, 9S.S bush
els total product, 15,252.9S4 bushels
= Farm value ~ cents per bushei: value
of crop, s3.66o,I14.
! Sweet Potatoes-Average yield pc
Il acre. eighty-seven bushels. Estimated
product, 2o3,3o0 bushels. Value, S2o3
800
Hay (cultivated) - Area, 2,544.S4
Z acres, average yield 1,45S,l95 tons
Farm value, $3.50 per ton; total valu
of product, s7.145155.
MISUNDERSTANDING yield per acre
; | fifteen bushels: total yield. 172,500 bush
! els: value, s96600
Timothy Seed--Average Yield, 4.
+ bushels per acre. Estimated product
: $50. 900 bushels. Value, ss34.600
Clover Seed--yalue iestimated), $3.50,
: 900. Average yield per acre. IL bushels
Millet SeedYield, twenty bushel
j per acre Value of product, $4,000.
) northumberland eighty-five gal
I Ions per acre. Estimated value Q
product $4,000.
: Broom Corn-Estimated value o
$ crop, $4,000.
. Corn Fodder-1n shock and fields
e worth sS 100000.
Pasturage -Estimated value, 100000,
: 0O0.
: Fruits and Vegetables = Estimate
y value ST, 100000
The average farm price of horses
q shown to be SOL; milk COWS, $35, woo
e per pound. lTscents. The amount of ia
blowing. compared with the average c
former years appears to be about GA pc
. cent. BY sections the average is. north
h ern section. IS; central section, 81
southern section, 40 per cent.
u The crop reporters made estimates {
. the percentage of loss of hogs by cho
!, era or other diseases in their respectiN
- counties, and their reports show an az
:, erage loss of about II per cent for til
:, state The average by counties rang
= from less than to So per cent. The r.
= ports show steady decrease in virl
: lence of the disease compared with II
:, ravages in recent years.
y GENERAL CROP STATEMENT.
y, Yield Farm
~, Crops; acre. product. Dec. 1.