The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
LOCAL AND FOREIGN MARKETS
THE WASHINGTON PRODUCTS
LAST YEAR PROVED TO BE A
FAT ONE FOR FARMERS OF
THE STATE.

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
only about 100000 bushels more, the
crop would have been twice as large
as that of two years ago, says the
West Coast Trade. AS it was. the
1905 harvest was only a little smaller
than the bumper crop of 1901, wnen
virgin fields produced a phenomenally
large acreage yield, and when the
grand total of 34,51S,96S bushels were
reaped This years crop amounts to
32,516,S10 bushels, as against 32,14O,-
613 bushels in the great year 1894.
These figures are from the latest es-
Inmates Of the department of agri-
culture
Other crops in the state this year
table than the wheat harvested be-
cause they constitute a smaller total
value. The production of oats, fer
instance, reached a total of 1927, 900
bushels las against 7,4O7,19S bushels
in 1904 and 7,59S1S5 bushels two
years ago. The total farm value of
this years oat crop is estimated at
s3,373,O70.
The state was again far in the lead
in the matter of high average yield of
oats per acre, the average being given
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.
Washington is not one of the corn
states, but the estimated crop in the
state this year is 261,263 bushels, or
considerably larger than last year,
when 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,s2419S in 1904, and this
years crop is valued at $3,1S3,103, as
against s2,5S3,S57 last year. Washing
ton ranks seventh among all the states
in barley production this year. The
this record being surpassed only in
Arizona.
The crop of potatoes in Washing
ton in 1905 is estimated at 4,SS6,25S
bushels, 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
country except in Maine, California,
Colorado and Wyoming.
One of the most valuable crops in
Tic SldtS ILLS ySdI vas nay, llIc pIO-
duction of which reached 9O6,274 tons,
valued on the farm at $S,763,670. The
yield per acre is supposed to have
averaged 1.54 tons for all the states
and averaged 265 tons, as against an
average of territories.
The wheat crop, the chief figures
for which have been given, was divid-
ed as follows this year. Winter wheat,
13,545,710 bushels spring wheat, 49,
gu, 100 bushels. The combined crop
puts more than $21,OOO,OO0 into the
pockets of tne farmers of Washington.
The estimated farm value of all
principal crops in the state this year,
including corn, wheat, oats, barley. rye. !
potatoes and hay, is $3907O111 These |
figures of course do not represent the |
proceeds of diversified Or intensive |
farming, in which there mas been a |
very great development during the
last few years.