Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-07-12
CORN CROP LARGER
THAN LAST YEAH
Considerable Increase in the Acre.
age and the Average Condi-
ton Is Higher.
THE GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT
iowa Leads All States With AN Av.
crage Condition of 1O2---Av-
erase for the Country
S0.5-.Other Crops.

Washington, July 12.-Preliminary
returns to the statistician of the de-
partment of agriculture on the acre.
age OF corn planted indicate an in
crease of 100000 acres, or 1.5 per
cent over the acreage harvested last
year. OF the twenty-five states hav-
ing 100000 acres or upwards in corn
in 1899, all but Alabama, Mississippi,
Arkansas, Tennessee and Kansas show
an increased acreage, and the total
decrease in the five states named is
less than 100000 acres. The increase
in acreage is, in the main, well dis.
tributed, there beng only ten states
reporting that have not u larger acre.
age planted than was harvested last
Year.
The average condition of the grow.
ing crop is S9.5, as compared with S6.a
on July /. 1899, and IL ten year aver.
age of 90.7. The condition in Iowa is
1o2; in Missouri, 1o1; in Kansas and
Nebraska, 93; in Illinois, 90, and in In.
diana, SO. Iowa being 10, Missouri 12:
Kansas and Nebraska and Illinois
points above their respective ten-yeal
averages.
The condition of winter wheat
shows further decline during June
being sos on July 1, as compared with
s2.7 on June i, and 65.6 on July 1, 1899,
s5.7 at the corresponding date in 1895
and ten-year average of 1913.
All the important winter wheat
states except Pennsylvania, Texas and
Tennessee share in this impairment
of condition, Ohio and Indiana falling
to % and Michigan to 40.
The average condition of spring
wheat is 55.2, as compared with ST.:
one month ago, OIL on July l, 1899,
and ten-year average of s9.5.
The condition in Minnesota has
fallen to 4s, in South Dakota to AZ
and in North Dakota to 30; these fig.
ures being ~, As and 60 per cent re.
spectively below the ten-year aver.
ages for the states named.
The northwestern states have been
visited by a special agent of the
department within the last ten days.
and the reports of the departments
regular correspondents are fully con-
firmed. In Minnesota and North Da-
kota the condition of oats, barley,
rye, pastures and meadow lands is
like that of spring wheat, the lowest
on record. The condition of spring
wheat and winter wheat combined on
July was 69.8, against 1862 on July
j, 1899.
The amount of wheat remaining in
The hands of farmers on July is es-
timated at about 51,OOO,OOO bushels.
or the equivalent of 9.3 per cent of
the crop of 1899. The average condi-
tion of the oat crop is s5.5, as COM
pared with 91.7 one month ago. 90 on
| July I, 1899, and Il ten-year average
| of s7.3.
The average condition of barley is
| 1913, as against s6.2 one month ago.
% on July 1, 1899, and a ten-year av-
erage of SS.a.
All the principal barley states show
n decline during the month, and their
averages of condition are all below
the respective ten-year average.
The average condition of winter rye
is 500, as compared with 1913 on July
/, 1899, OBS at the corresponding date
in 1898, and Il ten-year average of
s9.5.
The average condition of spring rye
is 69.7, as compared with s9.7 on July
1, 1899, and ten-year average of S9.S.
There is an indicated increase of
some 10000 acres or 1O2 per cent in
the acreage of potatoes, with con-
dition only Ola, as compared with a
ten-year average of 93.2. The sweet
potato reports are highly favorable.
Texas being the only important pro-
Queer that reports a condition even
slightly below it's 1en-year average.
The condition of tobacco is 2 points
above the ten-year average in Ken.
lucky and Ohio. Reports on the hay
| crOD are in the main unfayOrahle and
there are few important grazing
states in which the condition of pas.
lures is not considerably below the
ten-year average. While there has
been general decline in condition
of apples, almost every important ap.
ple-growing state has the promise OF
more than an average crop. This is
also true of peaches and of grapes.
The wool report indicates the av.
erage weight per fleece as being 6.1i
pounds, as against 5.95 pounds in 1898
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