Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-16
Iowa Farmers Lose From Too
Much Water.
DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO S59,00O,OO0
'Fifty.three Per Cent of Corn Unfit for
Anything But Feedng--Other &C.
reals Suffer From Downpours-Hay
Crop Not Injured.


cost the farmers of Iowa $50, 900 900,
according to the final crop report is
sued nv + R Sage director of the
weather and crop bureau. received by
tho Courier Iast evening
Tho value of all the farm praducts
of Iowa last vear was s274 OOO 600.
tbis yeor The Grand total is only s215,-
7os 40 M eh,;n,,oea is due TO fine
rains which drowned out crons in a
ynst orea and caused damage to the
maiity over nracticalIv the entire
state
nv o.o. o,+,oa,, ,orao, IN
~ eiop, a.,houSn 70 60 :.
nuinpoi VI BUSHES .nan ias. go Coz
400 80 m,'!'., 40 niuen ~ lhones w gov,
oooVyu' 1ne WHEAT iait s s nnn oo w ias.
!, eai u s..!ue ~ osei P.p'ooo'ooo, any
ae oa.s WI nol ne Moili. as as il nno NO as
,rst year Wy upMalus VI 9io,oos,ooo'
ne nay crop eNlueAtiy was nol inJu,
seu ~ cue eSeess1ss rains loi lne PRIV.
, uol anu Na'"e are a'ou' lhe saiiie do
-sst year.
hePort oe'ayeu.
me preparatlon OF inc report mas
80 usiascu ~ llie eioWiiesa VIZ
~, rroat delay IN a. o,+b ar;no If tna
cow .oro- Tha nns+ ;n,nortant FOO
+nro of ~, r,,lIet;r is tba ,st;n,ate III AZ
so nov n,,t of III oor, oron ;s ,ot
n,arl, a+.I,ls T., H. nor+h own : ao+ion
- A. lot az .n,o,nt - ,,,arl, etal1o
oorn l., st;, MY ~ 90 - nan cot. ~,
the central section at AZ nor cent. in
the southern section at ca ner cent
The damage To tho corn was almost
entirely from the early frost The To-
cal price of the sound corn is esti-
mated AT AZ cents ner bushel while
the feeding yalne Of the soft corn is
estimated at % cents nor hushel On
this basis Director sage estimates the
total value of the corn crop this wear
at $50 600 moo as comnared with s113
0o0,000 last wear and 500 o0O Oo0 in
1000 The total number NJ bushels of
corn this year is estimated nj about
297 100000 bushels as comnared with
227 0Ol 000 busbels last vear and 345
600 600 in 1900 considerable nor.
ton of the corn is still ungathered
however. and subject to tho vicissi
tudes of the weather
ni,ooto, co,. .4,+
~ o,;o,,a as $50 80 eeTa.. u'iis
=, 80 lou' Ups =, 90 io.io"'
Inc corn Crop.-in bulk, expressed
IN pusneis, the corn crop is reported 10
De ilttle ABOVE the ten year average,
the yleid per acre Delng ABOUT 81 push
els ana the total ior the state, grown
on "a, an area Oh ABOUT S,ioo,ooo acres
us 296,950,230 bushels.
On account of the unfavorable char
acter of the crop season and the I'M
usually variable condition of the corn
crop, special report was called for
in answer to Inquiries as to the aver
age yield Of hard and soft corn, the
percentage that is sound and mer
charitable. the local price of sound
corn and the feeding value of the soft
er portion of the crop. The tabulated
reports show the following results of
) this investigation: Dividing the state
into three sections or belts three coun-
as a M nv =, ,os thn east ~ west, we
(thirty counties) the sound corn is es-
timated at 80 per cent; in the central
section( thilty-eight counties) it is 4S
per cent, and in the southern section
(thirty-one counties) the average is Ga
per cent. For the state as a whole the
average condition appears to be 47
per cent sound and understandable and
So per cent graded as soft. chaffy OF
unmerchantable. The total weld by
sections is as follows: Northern sec
ton. in round numbers. "a 900 O0O
bushels; central section 139 600 O0O
bushels: southern section. $4,000 0o0
bushels.
The average local price of the sound
corn is reported to be A cents no,
bushel: and the average feeding v.Iur
o oa eee softer portion is estimated at
~ cents per oushel
ms serves as basis for estimat,
~? the totai value OF the corn crop
o onls We year IN round numbers at $685.
ooo.ooo. Last year the yield was 227,-
uo,'.oou pnshels and the value S113,.
ouu'uoV. IN 1900 the total yield was
oo4o'ooo'ooo pushels and the value, at
Inc current prices, $93,OOO,OOO.
whea+.
Wheat-Ihe acreage of winter
wheat IS small, and the total yield ap
pears 10 be only S25,O45 bushels, an
average OF eighteen bushels per acre
IN spring wheat the yield is thirteen
Dushels per acre and a total of 12,-
3 Ic Of 1N,tI 80,