Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-12
GOOD CORN CROP PROMISED.
The Yield Per Acre Much Greater Than
in 1901

The preliminary estimate of the average
yield per acre of corn, published in the
monthly report of the statistician of the
Department of Agriculture, Is 26S bushels,
as compared with an average yield of 1871
bushels in 1901, 25.3 bushels in 1909 and
1899 and ten-year average of pa bushels
The general averagesas 20 quality Is S0.7
per cent as compared with 1871 per cent
last year, $50 per cent in 1900 and s7.2 per
cent in 1899. r. 2
1t is estimated that about 10 per cent Of
the corn crop of 1901 was still in the hands
of farmers on November 1, 1902 as COM
pared with As per cent of the crop of 1900
in farmers hands on November 1. 1901 and
A per cent of that of 1899 in hand Novem-
Der 1, 1900
The p-eliminary estimate of the average
yield per acre of buckwheat is 1871 bushels,
against 1876 bushels in 1901, Is bushels in
1900 and ten-year average of 11-2 bushels.
OF the seven states having 10000 acres or
upward under this product including New
York and Pennsylvania. which together
contain about three-fourths of the entire
buckwheat acreage of the country, five re-
port a yield per acre in excess of their re-
spective ten-year averages. The general
average as to quality Is SS.1 per cent,
against 1913 per cent last year and 90.2 per
cent in 1900
The preliminary estimate of the yield per
an average yield per acre of Goo bushels In
1901, sos bushels in 1900 and a ten-year ay-
erage of 1913 bushels. OF the states having
100, 900 acres or upward in pota toes all ex-
cept New York and Michigan report yield
per acre considerably above their ten-year
averages. The average as to quality is so
per cent as compared with 7S.4 per cent in
November last and SS.1 per cent in Novem-
Der, 1900.
OF the eleven principal sweet potato pro-
0ncinP Georgia
South Carolina, report average yields per
acre of sweet potatoes in excess of their
ten-year averages, and five, including North
Carolina and Alabama report yields below
such averages.
The preliminary estimate of the average
yield per acre of hay is Isl tons against
an average yield Of LIS tons in 1901 and
1900 and ten-year average of 129 tons
The present yield isSswith the exception OF
1898, the highest ever reported by the De-
partment OF Agriculture and each of the
eleven principal hay-producing states re-
ports an average yield in excess of that oil
last year, and also in excess of the ten-yeal
average The average as to quality Is So.
per cent, against 91.3 per cent in November
last and s9.7 per cent in November. 1900.
| All of the ten principal tobacco states. ex
| acre of tobacco in excess of their ten-yeal
| averages. The quality of the tobacco croI
| is fair.
The apple and pear crops are considerably
ABOVE the ten-year average in nearly all the
| states In which the raising of these fruit:
| is of any Importance, and the grape crop 1
| slightly below such average.
| The estimated reduction of sugar cane il
percentages of a full crop is as follows
/ North Carolina and Texas. So; Georgia, "a
| Louisiana, 50; South Carolina, IS; Florida
| 70; Mississippi II, and Alabama, 81.
| the estimated average yield per acre o.
| rough rice in bushels is as follows: Loulsi
ana, 2o.5: North Carolina, 81 g; South Caro-
| lima, 233; Georgia. 81 :1F1orIda, 81; Alabama
25.2; Mississippi. 1914, and Texas. 40.