Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-08-16


The northwest comparison is as
follows: ...-..
Nortn Dakota ......- 10O, 900, 900
Minnesota. ..s.-... SO. OOO. 600
South Dakota. 20 600 0oO
Total -. 23O. .OOO. 900
The full Jones-Inglis reports On
wheat production is as follows:
We estimate the wheat crop of
the three states at 23O. 900. 900
bushels, and the total spring crop
OF the United States at 3O1, 900, 900.
The winter wheat production is
estimated at 435, 900, 900, giving a
total for the United States of 1856,
ooo, 200, or the largest yield of
spring and winter the United States
has produced.
The government over-estimated
the crop of 1901 by $4,000, 900
bushels. The government estimate
OF production last year was 60, 900,
ooo IN excess ofour figures, and the
trade recognizes now that govern
ment figures were much too high,
leaving our estimate tor last wear
closely sustained. This year the
government amended low percen-
tages OF condition thru the summer
only to jump in it's August report
70 another extreme by suggesting
the winter crop close to5oo,0 900, 900.
While our June estimate OF 42O. 600 !.
600 was ridiculed by a part of the
trade as manipulation, the govern
ment figures of yield prove the in
Justiclot reflections of that character.
We do not feel justified in placing
winter production at over 435, 900,
900, believing that government
figures OF 1851 bushels average,
with less than so per cent of the
crop threshed, are as much an over
estimate as were its figures the pre-
vious year.
In viewing the crop this year
the great variabIeness OF yield was
considered. There was large
area OF thirty bushel wheat, but al
so a deficient production on corn
lands SO much so that the govern
ment made liberal allowance for
acreage plowed up. The emphasis
thus far has been on the exception
ally large yields of winter wheat
without cores ponding emphasis on
the light yields OF west Kansas and
other similar districts.
The spring crop deteriorated,
especially in Minnesota, after the
severe storm OF July 27, which laid
the crops OF nearly half the counties
IN that state. Up to that time the
northwest crop as a whole was uf
exceptional promise. Toward the
close OF the ripening period there
was further deterioration that pre-
vented full development at the top
OF the head, reducing the weight.
The durum yield is much in ex-
cese OF any yet made. In many in
stances IS per cent OF the area is
durum, while counties that last year
had no durum acreage seeded / to
2O per cent. While sections will
produce an average of this year of
only fifteen bushels, other sections
will produce averages of twenty
five bushels, with yields running to
forty bushels The heavy increase
IN durum acreage is not entirely at
the expense of spring wheat acreage,
but is instead a straight out increase
in many counties.
North Dakota heads the list as
the largest wheat producer in the
union, with a crop of 100, 600, 600;
South Dakota breaks her record,
with 30, OOO, 600; Minnesota is given
SO, 900 900, total of 23O, 900, 900 for.
the three northwest states. Other
spring productions is estimated at
II 900, 900.
The total wheat supply for the
next ne twelve months, including so,
600 900 reserve July I, is s26. 900,
600 bushel, which leaves . surplus.