Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-23
REPORTO ON THECROPs
AMERICAS GRAIN VALUED AT
s2,45s,oo4, sos.
Government Estimate Shows that
Uncle Sans Prosperity Springs
from the Soii-Sk<any Dwindling
Mortgage viii BE Paid on.

That the prosperity of America
springs from the soil is demonstrated
once more in the government estimate
of the grain crops of 1907. Those Sg-
ures, based on the market prices to-day,
place the value of the grand total yield
Of wheat, corn. oats, rye and barley for
the year at $2,45S,004, SOB.
Comparisons of the government esti-
mate of this year with the similar pre-
diction made year ago shows falling
of of 3S,000,000 bushels out of total
of more than 1000, 100000 bushels, but
| it is believed the difference will be
more than wiped out by the higher mar
ket value of grains, leaving a clean
margin of gain for the farmer in spite
of the tardy spring.
The government estimators have
placed the probable yield of winter
wheat for the current year at 374, 1885,
600 bushels, valued at the present price
of 92A cents at $345, 157 ,9S7. The pre-
diction for the yield of spring wheat is
243, $4,000 bushels with a value of
$224, az, S07.
Wheat Crop Worth $3.50, 93O,795,
This places the total wheat crop at
| 617, S22, 900 bushels, worth $500 $50, 795.
The actual yield of wheat for the SIM
| liar period last year was 735, 261, 600
bushels which, figured at the market
price one year ago of ISIS cent?, was
worth S574,422, $50. Since the actual
yield, however, exceeded the govern
ment estimate by 100000 bushels it
is not unlikely that the present yearmay
| furnish surprise fully as welcome.
This is a possibility that is bringing
broad smiles to the tanned faces of the
farmers of the Northwest.
Corn, the banner crop of the country,
is equally replete with happy probable
tiles, and in spite of soggy grounds and
overcast skies that kept the planting
back this spring, the outlook is that the
few slim remnants of mortgages on the
homesteads throughout the great corn
belt that have dwindled rapidly in the
recent years of prosperity, will see their
| finish.
| While the estimate falls below the
prediction made year ago by 10000
900 bushels out of a total of 2,500,000,-
900, the market price is IL cents per
bushel higher than last year at this
time. The estimate ON corn is yield
of 2,517, $4,000 bushels, with a value,
at the market price to-day, of 541s
cents, of $1,362, 446,407. The actual
yield Of Last year was 1927, 100000
bushels, valued at $1,543,500.
Oats, rye and barley have suffered so
little because of an inclement spring
that the government prediction, while
less than the actual yield of last year,
exceeds inSeach instance similar esti-
| mates made year ago, showing that
the present conditions indicate larger
crop than they did then.
A yield of 919, 537, 600 bushels of oats
is predicted by the government experts
for this year, which will be worth, at
the present price, 1895 cents, $4G1, 14S,-
016. Last years prediction was for
S14, $4,000 bushels, while the actual
yield was e64, 9O5, 600, with valuation
Of 1862, 694, 900, the current price year
ago being but 1875 cents a bushel.
Altogether the report is considered
one likely to turn the whole country to
optimistic reflections.