Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-01
YIELDS PER ACRE
ESTIMATES OF YEARS CROPS BY
AGRICULTURAL sTATIsTICIAN.
Corn and Hay, Tobacco and Potatoes
Buckwheat Crop and Grape
Culture.

The preliminary estimate Of the statis-
tician G. the Department Of Agriculture OF
the average yield per acre of corn in 1901
is 25.3 bushels, as compared with an aver
age yiclu of 1851 bushels in 1899, Of "A. IS
bushels in 1893. and ten-year average oil
PAL bushels. The indicated yield per acre
In Ohio Is 81 bushels, in Indiana and Iowa
3S, in Illinois 81, In Missouri %, in Kansas
10 and IN Nebraska 26 bushels. The ave.
age as 10 quality Is $50 per cent as COM
pared with S7.2 per cent last year and ST.
per cent. in November. 1893. It is esti-
mated that A. per cent Of the corn crop o.
1899 was still in the hands of farmers on
November 1, 1900 as compared with SO per
cent Of the crop of 1898 in farmers hands
on November l, 1899, and 7.25 per cent o..
that of 1897 in hand on November 1, 1893.
Buckwheat and Potatoes.
The preliminary estimate of the average
yield Per acre of buckwheat is Is bushels.
against an average yield Of 1856 bushels Ill
1899. 1928 bushels in 1898, and a ten-year
average of 1863 bushels. The average for
New York and Pennsylvania, the two states
of principal production. is IA bushels he
average as to quality is 9O.2 per cent
against SS.4 per cent in November last and
S5.2 per cent in November 1893.
The preliminary estimate of the average
yield per acre of potatoes is sos bushels,
against an average yield of 1888 bushels IN
1899, 1913 bushels in 1898 and a ten-year
average Of T6.6 bushels. The average as TO
quality is 1871 per cent, against GA per
cent in November last and S4.7 per cent lii
November, 1898.
Hay and Tobacco.
The preliminary estimate of the average
yield per acre Of hay is 1.2S tons. against
an average yield Of 1.35 tons in 1899, LIS
tons In 1893 and a ten-year average Of LIS
tons. The average as to quality is S9.7 PEI
cent. against 93.S per cent in November
last and 95.3 per cent in November. 1893.
For tobacco no average yield per acre for
the entire country can be established, blu!
the yield per acre is somewhat above the
ten-year state averages in Kentucky Ten
nessee, Ohio, Maryland and Wisconsin. and
below such averages in Virginia, North
Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Sweet Potato Crop.
In the South Atlantic states the sweet
potato crop suffered from lack Of moisture.
and except in Georgia the yield per acre in
those states is below the ten-year average.
The yield in Tennessee corresponds ex-
actly with the average of the last ten
years, and in all the other states in which
sweet potatoes are grown on a CONNER
cial scale conditions have been favorable
and large yields are reported, Texas re-
porting % bushels per acre. as compared
with ten-year average Of 70 bushels, and
New Jersey 135 bushels per acre, as COM
pared with a ten-year average of 1O3 BUSH
els The drought in the south Atlantic
states affected not only the extent but also
the quality of the crop in those states.
Elsewhere. however, the quality Is unusu-
ally high.
While the promise of an enormous apple
crop with which the season started out
has not been fully realized, nine of the
fourteen states having three million or up
ward apple trees in bearing at the last CEN
report a production in excess of the
tenyear average.
There has been a large production Of
pears. California alone, among the ten
principal pearproducing states, failing to
report crop in excess OF the ten-year av-
erage
Grape Culture.
OF the four principal grape-growing
states. New York and Ohio report produc-
ton in excess of their respective ten-year
averages, while California and Missouri
fall somewhat below such averages.
preliminary estimate of the cotton
crop, based upon reports from the depart
ment's regular correspondents, from GIN
ners and from individual planters, supple
mented by the Investigations of special
agents, will be issued early in December.
An estimate of the wheat crop will be is
sued soon the individual farm re-
turns are available for comparison with
the reports of the departments regular cor
respondents.