Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-06-20
NO EXPORT WHEAT.
GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS
DECREASED YIELD.
Barely Enough for Home Consunp-
tfon-Indicated Total Crop &C.,
500, 900 Bushels - 36S,529, 900
Winter, 24S.064. 900 Spring.

Official figures given out by the gov
eminent indicate that America will have
little, if any, wheat 10 spare for export,
even if there are no further setbacks for
the winter wheat crop, and providing
also that the spring wheat crop has an
unbroken line OF good fortune until har-
vest. At the present status the neces
sary supply and demand seems about at
even poise, where little holding back
by the American farmer will create a
stringency and where little extra rapid
marketing viii make the stringency less
pronounced. If each farmer should de-
eide to hold even a small percentage more
than usual in reserve it would be possible
to bring about a very pronounced effect
on the markets of this country and per-
haps throughout the world.
The total indicated wheat crop is 616.-
$4,000 bushels, of which 6S.529, 600
bushels are winter and 243064.000 bush
els are spring wheat. The total wheat
crop last year was 49,, 100000 bushels,
OF which 492,000000 bushels were win
ter and 243.O00 bushels spring.
Both winter and spring wheat yields
promise just a trife below the average
yields of the last ten years. a condition
that would not be noteworthy were the
population and per capita consumption of
wheat -four stationary, but which resolves
itself into a gigantic problem when it is
seen that the population has increased
enormously in this ten-year period, while
the wheat production is now falling back.
Based on Old Acreage.
1t is, of course, recognized that there
are some important points to clear up.
The government has made no revision of
its acreage since the official announce
ment of abandoned acreage month ago.
Future reports must take note of the
large abandoned area in Kansas. The
State authorities assert that p per cent
of the area has been plowed up. As
Kansas represents over 20 per cent of
the entire wheat area, this loss is not
trifling.
Evidently the government has taken
note of the lateness of seeding of the
spring wheat crop, as the condition given
is At lower than that of year ago and
4.6 per cent below the average of the last
ten years. With perfect conditions to
harvest the spring wheat crop, therefore,
might be able to furnish an Offset to the
losses Southwest.
Principal changes in winter wheat con-
dition in large producing States in the
last month include losses of % points in
Kansas, - points in Oklahoma, IL points
in Nebraska and 4 points in California.
There were gains of points in Indiana
and of 3 in Ohio, as well as l each in
Illinois and Texas. The winter wheat
condition reported is 5.5 per cent lower
than in May and 81 per cent below a
ten-year average.
The report says that preliminary re-
turns on the acreage of spring wheat sown
indicate an area of about 16,464,OOO
acres, decrease of 1,242,OOO acres, or Z
per cent, as compared with the final esti-
mate of the acreage sown last year
(17,7O6,OOO).
The average condition of spring wheat
on June I was $751;, as compared with
93.4 at the corresponding date last year,
93.7 on June l, 1905, and a ten-year av-
erage of 93.3.
The following table shows for the five
principal spring wheat States the acreage
compared with last year, on percentage
basis, and the condition on June 1 in
1907 and 1906 with a ten-year average;