Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-21

Sage 5 Farm FIGURES (
Director Of Iowa Weather and Crop
Service Preparing His An
nual Report.
Rainfall Variable and Heavy-Av.
erage Temperature by Months
Average Yield
Comparison of Grain Prices Re.
ceived by Farmers During
Last len Years.
pecial to TImes-Republican.

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service and special agent of the United
States department. of agriculture, has
prepared for his Forthcoming annual
report table OF statistics which gives
the climatic record and shows what the
farm products of Iowa have been in
quantity and value for the ten years
ending with January l. 1900. These
facts and figures said Mr.. Sage.
SHOW why ii is that Iowa farms have
doubled in market price during the past
ten Years. The most notable feature of
these weather records is thu fact that
more than two thirds OF the yearly pre-
cipitation has fallen in the six crop
months-April to Octoberl The av-
erage rainfall of the crop season has
been 21.36 inches, which is 100 per cent
of the annual precipitation. And the
average of the three summer months
has been 1l.16 inches, or 81 per cent of
the yearly average. So 1t appears that
copious rainfall and almost tropical
heat of the growing months have been
the prime factors in the production of
the enormous crops that place Iowa in
the front rank among the agricultural
states of the union.
The average annual precipitation
for the decade was 3o.11 inches, which
is substantially the average of all the
years of general record for the state.
The yearly average of the last five
years was % of an inch greater than
decade So ii appears that the records
do not disclose any facts to sustain the
Theory tina, this region is gradually
drying UP or undergoing any climatic
lichange
During the decade there has been
lgconsiderable pariableness in the yearly,
output of the soil. but the total prod
| ucis OF even the poorest seasons have
| Brought ample rewards TO the industri-.
Gus toilers of the state. The leanest
season would be regarded as fairness in
4 many other sections of the country.
THE figures in this table furnish
Iample material for study and COMPARE.
son. They utterly d!sprove the pess-I
3mistic theory that the state Is being
desiccated and that theresis continual
Idecline in its productiveness The GER
cal products of the last five years of
the decade were ;,s7OO0.GOO bushels
| greater than for the first five years. or
4 an average increase of l1T,000.Do0 bush
I=e!s per year. In all lines of production
4 we note the results of improved meth
jtods Of culture. Drainage and cultiva-
l5tion have improved the condition of the
lzsoil 50 that fair returns are secured in
extremes of wet OF dry seasons.
1. The figures as TO the total value of
4 farm products are based upon the
+ prices current at the farms on the LIST
4 of December in zach year. and do5not
Il include the increment of value result
ing from feeding stock and converting
lcorn. grain and forage into beef, pork
Ishorses. dairy products. etc. Making
lues allowance for this increase year by
year the total value Of lowa's sol
lproducts for the decade exceeds $4,000.
y GOO, 900. or an average of more thar
s2oo.00o.o00 per year. In view of these
facts and figures II is easy to under
stand Why there has been steady ad.
nance in the selling prices of low;
s farms. Iowa climate and soil afford a
safe basis for the investment of capt
I HAL
From the table referred to by Mr.
!. Sage important extracts are taken a:
! follows
Average fo
Temperature Data. Decade.
!, Annual mean temperature-da-
grees.. $50. -. 4T.4
/ Highest temperature-degrees ..1o5.2
Lowest inperature-degrees. 500
Mean temperature (ApriD-de-
grees. ~. -. 80. ...... 49.S
/ Mean temperature tMay)--de-
i grees.... go. ~. 80. ...... 59.4
/ Mean temperature Gune>-de
d grees... $50. ~. ...... 1O.5
: Mean temperature (July)--de-
q grees.... -. ~. 1876
$ Mean temperature (AugusD de
srees.... -. ~. Ill
Mean temperature tseptenber)
degrees... ~. 80. Ga
Average Temperature for six crop
:. months-degree go. 80. SAC
! Average temperature for three
\ summer months degrees. .... Ill
RAINFALL DATA.
Average precipitation per year
inches... ...3o,l
Rainfall in April inches. ;. 80. 3;
Rainfall in May--inches.. !. i. 49,. A.;
Rainfall in June-inches. !. :. !. A.;
Rainfall in Juiy-inches.. 4. ). !. 81;
Rainfall in August-inches. ). ). 81
Rainfall in September-inches- 2.
Rainfall for six nonths-inches.. 81 J;
Rainfall for three summer months
-incheS.. ....ll.
staple Farm Crops For Averages +,
Decade Decade.
l. Spring wheat yield per acre
~ bushels. 1890. 80.
IS Wheat. total bushels. 10000
-, Corn. yield per acre-bush-
Corn, total product-bushels. 252, ga, j
= Oats. yield per acre-bushels 81
Oats, total product-bushels. 1881, q
!. Barley, total product-bush-
y. els. ca. 1890. ]. 1855
Rye. total product--bushels 2,14s,8
Flax, total product-busnels. 2.563,1
Potatoes, total product-bush-
els. ~. 3. 1s.o5s,1
:, !, tons. &. .... -. 4,oss,o
: Corn and small grain-bush-
els..7.. 4UO.O5l,a
Total values Of farm prod
ucts.. \. -. 49,. $50 172.350.2