The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-04
STATE OF WASHINGTON PRO-
DUcED SECOND LARGEST
CROP IN ITS HISTORY.
Almost $e,000,oo0 Worth of Forage Was
Produced During 1905-Much
Hay Grown.

Last year was a fat one for the
wheat farmers Of Washington. The
second largest crop Of wheat in the
history of the state was raised in 1905,
and had the production been only
about 5000, 900 bushels more, the crop
would have been twice as large as that
of two years ago, is the report that
comes from Washington. AS it was,
the 1905 harvest was only little small
Ter than the bumper crop Of 1901,
when virgin fields produced phe-
nomenally large acreage yield, and
when the grand total Of 34,51S,96S
bushels was reaped. This years crop
amounts to 32,516,81O bushels, as
against 32,14o,6O3 bushels in the great
year 1894. These figures are from the
latest estimates of the department OF
agriculture.
Other crops in the state this year
were very large, and are only less no.
table than the wheat harvest because
they constitute a smaller total value.
The production Of oats, for instnace,
reached a total of S,227,O00 bushels,
as against 7,4O7,19S bushels in 1904
and 7,59S,1S5 bushels two years ago.
The total farm value of this years
oat crop is estimated at s3,373,07o.
Oats Bring Money.
The state was again far in the lead
in the matter of high average yield
of oats per acre, the average being
placed by the government statisticians
at fifty bushels The nearest approach
to this enormous acreage yield was in
Montana where the estimate is placed
at Alb bushels per acre. The yield
in Oregon was only PAL bushels, and
the average for the whole country was
only "a.
states, but the estimated crop in the
state this year is 261,263 bushels, or
considerably larger than last year,
wnen the crop amounted to 242,430
bushels. .
The barley crop in the state is
every year becoming more important.
The crop is placed at 6,772.560 bushels,
as against 5,S24,19S in 1904, and this
years crop is valued at $3,1S3,103 as
against $2,5S3,957 last year. Wash
ington ranks seventh among all the
states in barley production this year.
bushels, this record being surpassed
only in Arizona.
Potato Crop Is Large.
The crop of potatoes in Washington
in 1905 is estimated at 4,S56,25S
bushels, a record which is exceeded in
only three or four of the new states,
and the farm value of this crop is
placed at s2,233,S79. The average
yield of potatoes in the state was
larger than anywhere else in the coun-
try except in Maine, Colorado, Cali
fornia and Wyoming.
One of the most valuable crops in
the state this year was hay, the pro-
duction of which reached 906,274 tons,
valued on the farm at SS.763,670. The
yield per acre is supposed to have
averaged 2.65 tons, as against an av-
erage of IA tons for all the states
and territories.
The wheat crop, the chief figures
for which have been given, was divided
as follows this year: Winter wheat,
| 1855. 10 bushels; spring wheat, 49,
971,100 bushels. The combined crop
puts more than s21.0O0,0OO into the
pockets of the farmers of Washing
! ton.
| The estimated farm value of all
principal crops in the state this year,
/ including corn, wheat, oats, barley,