East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-08-23
MORE RECORD
CROP REPORTS
ALL TIE GREAT AMERICAN
STAPLES VAST INCREASE.
Every State In the Union Seems to
Have q Stand-in This Year With
Mother Nature--Blgecst Acreage of
Wheat Was Seven Years Ago-Corn
Crop of America Vastly More VAL
liable Than Wheat, Equaling the
Area of California.

The crop reports issued by the de-
partment of igriculture ON August 10
year. Preliminary returns put the
winter crop at 493,434,00 bushels.
The spring wheat crop was estimated
at 27S,S3O,OOO bushels making a total
probable wheat harvest of 772,264,-
900, which is more than was ever pro-
duced in any other country in the
world, about 60,OOO,OOO more than
our own average production for the
10 years preceding, and nearly "a
100000 more than our greatest previ-
Gus years production in 1901.
Along with the greatest wheat crop
We have also the promise of the
greatest corn crop on record-no less
thar 2,71S.1s4,oOO bushels. Add to
this a 0,0o0-bale cotton crop, an
excellent tobacco crop, and crops of
oats, barley, rye and other minor
CEREALS ranging from fair to fine, and
1t seems evident htat the farmers of
the United States will have even NOR,
money 10 spend, the railroads more
freight to carry and the merchants
more goods to sell this year than last.
All through the winter wheat belt
there has been remarkable increase
IN the yield per acre. The grain is
unhroken, from PENNSYLVANIA to CALI
fornia. In Indiana and Ohio, old
satcs whose soil might be expected
70 be showing signs of exhaustion, the
average yield has gone above 20 bush.
.eis TO the acre-a yield that would
have been considered good a few
years ago for an exceptionally favor
ed farm. In Nebraska the average
has risen to 2S.2 bushels. Last year
when we had the next to the larges,
wheat crop ever produced up 10 thai
time, three Of the IL principal winter
wheat states averaged less than II
bushels and only two less than IA
Last year only three states went aboy,
lS~busheis; this year three have gon,
abcve %. This years gigantic cror
Of 7-2,t60.00D bushels of wheat of al
kinds has been produced on an acre
age 10 per cent smaller than tn,
1883 c1op Of 100000 bushels less
1t Is a noteworthy fact that tn,
amount on land suwn to whcat in tn,
United Stares seemed TO reach il,
iuni; seven years ago. In 1899 w,
mad b2.5SS,57i acres in wheat-ar
area equal TO that of Kansus-and w,
nave never sequaled that figure since
In other words. the state of Kansas
II II wzsre ill good wheat land. could
yrodare all 1he wheat WE have ever
raised in tine United States in any one
y"72r. White we nave over 1000 OOG
4''HS9 vi ldllu III all, IL appears
that u'ly absut SQfeOO, or hess than =
ep1' ;;eri of The whole, can be devoted
to wheat growing. This yeur's record
crop h,s' been raised on less than rs
OVe. The only prospect of a material
1nesease is 'fuInd in the reclamation
of arid hands by irrigation.
The carn crep is one of vastly more
Importance to the United States than
the wheat crop, although that is the
greatest In the world. Our 2,713.OOO.-
Ooe bushels of corn this year would
load a freight train extending two.
thircs of the way around the globe
This crop has been raised on 95.535.-
900 Scres of land-aborit twice the
acreage devoted TO wheat and the
greatest ersr given to corn in our his
tory. The American cornfields are
about equal in extent TO the Japan
ese empire, cr approximately that of
California, and their yielr I'm a single
year would nay off the national debt
OF the United states.
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