Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-26
LOW RECORD CORN CROP.
Official Estimates Show the Smallest
Average.

Washington, d. C., NOV. ID. = Inc
following crop report is issued by the
department of agriculture
The preliminary estimate of the av-
erage yield per acre of corn, as pub
lished in the monthly report of the sta
tistician of the department OF agrlcul-
ture, is 1874 bushels, as compared with
an average yield of 25.3 bushels per
acre in 1900 and 1899 and ten year
average of 244 bushels. The present
indicated yield per acre is the lowest
general average ever recorded for this
crop, being 90 bushels per acre below
| the yield in 1881, which has stood for
twenty years as the lowest on record.
The indicated yield in bushels per
acre in the seven principal states is as
follows: Ohio 26.1 Indiana, 1913; Hi
nois, ola; Iowa %; Missouri 101;
Kansas, rs; and Nebraska, HI.
| Of the twenty,three states having
| 100000 acres or upward in corn all
but Pennsylvania, Virginia and Mich
Iigan report an average yield per acre
below their respective ten-year aver
ages. The general average as to quail
/ ity is 1871 per cent, as compared with
S5.5 per cent in November, 1899. 1t is
estimated that As per cent of the corn
crop of 1900 was still in the hands OF
! farmers on Nov. /, 1901, as compared
4 with "A per cent of the crop of 1899
/ in farmers hands on Nov. /. 1900, and
/ SO per cent of that of 1898 in hand
November, 1899.
The preliminary estimate of the ay-
erage yield per acre of buckwheat is
| 1873 bushels, against an average yield
per acre. of 10 bushels in 1900, 1876
bushels in 1899, and a ten-year aver
/ age of 1863 bushels. OF the six states
having 10000 acres or upwards under
this product. including New York and
Pennsylvania, which together contain
over three-fourths of the entire buck
wheat acreage of the country, four re.
port yield per acre in excess of Their
respective teu-year averages. The
general average as to quality is 1913
per cent, against 90.2 per cent in No.
vember last and 1854 per cent in No.
! vember, 1899. Siiy
Preliminary estimate of the yield
per acre of potatoes is 1919 bushels
against an average yield per acre OF
1S0.S bushels in, 1900, $50 bushels in
1899, and ten,year average of 1871
bushels. The present Indicated yield
per acre is the lowest since 1890 OF
the states having 10000 acres or up
ward in potatoes all except Michigan
and Main report yield per acre com
pairing unfavorably with their ten-yeal
averages. Indiana Illinois, Iowa, Kan
lsas, and Nebraska report less thar
lone-half and Missouri less than one
fourth of an average crop The aver
age as to quailty is 1874 per cent. as
compared with 8S1 in November last
and ola in November, 1899.
The preliminary estimate of the av
erage yield per acre of hay is 80 tons
against an average yield of 1.2S tons ii
4 1900, 1875 tons in 1899, and a ten-yea,
average of 1.2S tons. While more thar
three-fourths of the forty-seven states
and territories for which comparative
data are available report yield PEI
acre in excess of their respective ten
year average, such important states a.
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska, South Dakota, Texas. and Ar
kansas are all included in the region
reporting less favorably The aver
age as to quality is 91.3 per cent
against S9,7 per cent in November las
and 93.S per cent in November, 1899.
: OF the fifteen principal tobacc,
states, nine, including Kentucky, Vii
ginia, North Carolina and Tennessee
report an average yield per acre of to
} bacco in excess of their ten-year avel
J ages, while six. including Ohio, Wis
consin and Missouri, fall below sucl
7 averages.
| The apple crop is considerably be
, low the ten-year average the pear an,
grape crops are slightly below. and tn
sweet potato crop is slightly above.