The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-13
MOST VALUABLE
IN ITS HISTORY.
rENNEssEE's WHEAT CROP THIS
YEAR EXCEEDS ALL OTHERS.
is WORTH MORE THAN $1,000, 900
surpasses the Record-5reakins Yield
of 1so1-county Officials Unusually
Prompt With Revenue Reports.
School Taxes Are increased.


According to the official report is,
sued by the Department of Agriculture
and estimates which Commissioner
Ogilvie has made, based on a per-
sonal examination in some sections,
there is little doubt that the 1906 wheat
crop will be the most valuable pro-
duced in Tennessee during the past
decade, and probably ever grown in
the State. The acreage reports indi-
cate that the average amount of land
was sown in wheat, and the estimates
of the yield are more than 80 per cent.
in advance of that of last year
1t is believed that the number of
bushels produced in the State is equal
to, if it does not exceed, the record
breaking crop of 1901, when the United
States Department of Agriculture esti
mated the yield at 13,094,000 This
than the best known for the State,
and the per cent. of No. / and No. 2
wheat will be much higher than that
for 1901. There are many reasons
why this is the case. There has never
been a more favorable month for har-
vesting and threshing the wheat crop
than the past one. A larger percent
age Of the crop has been threshed at
this time than ever before, due to the
favorable weather conditions. In one
of the Middle Tennessee counties a
crop of over 5000 bushels averaged
sixty-one pounds to the bushel No
2 wheat weighs ffty-nine pounds.
Not only is the grade better this
year than in 1901, but the price at the
thresher, which is the best price for
purposes of comparison, is over 25
per cent. better The 1901 crop of over
100000 bushels sold at the thresher
at an average price of 81 cents, max
ing the aggregate value about 81 $780,
900. The largest crop which yielded
the best price at the thresher and,
therefore, the most valuable, was that
of two years ago, the yield of the State
being estimated at 9,298,000 bushels,
which sold for little over 80 cents,
making the total value a fraction less
than $500, 900
The crop last year sold at 80 cents,
but the yield was only about seven
bushels per acre, or a total for the
State of 6,54S,000, the total value at
the thresher being estimated at less
than $6,000.000 This years crop, es-
timated at S13O000O and it is be-
lieved by many competent authorities
that fuller and more accurate returns
will demonstrate that this is low es-
innate, at so cents per bushel will
make the aggregate money value to
the State about $40, 100000, being
about S2,000,000 more than the value
Of the crop of 1901, and nearly $4,000 /
900 more than the great crop of 1901.
In 1900 the State produced crop of
! / $4,000 bushels, but the selling
price was only 6S cents, therefore the
total value will not near equal that of
this year. In 1903 the crop sold for
cents more per bushel than it is now
worth, but the total yield of the State
was only 7,693,0OO bushels. In 1902
only 6,05000O bushels was grown
which sold for so cents at the thresher.
In estimating the price at the
thresher for the several years enumer-
ated an effort has been made to give !
the average. There were doubtless
many farmers in the year mentioned
who received more for their crop than
he prices stated, while others receiv- +
ed less, but the average is believed
20 be nearly correct. The yields given
except for this year are the estimates
If the United State Department of Ag-
'iculture, which vary but little from
he estimates made by the State De-
)artment