Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-08
A BIC CROP
is IN SIGHT
CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT CoUN-
TRY GIVE PROMISE OF BoUN-
TIFUL YIELD.
CORN IN FINE SHAPE

Hay, Fruit and Potatoes Show
Good Increases-Some opin-
ions on the Question:.
An exhaustive outline of crop condi-
lions from practically every publisher
of farm paper in the United States
has just been received by President
G. R. Erwin of Lord & Thomas. The
report is made for the benefit of man.
ufacturers who look to them each yeal
for reliable information on the coun'
try's condition in advance of the &C.
tual measuring of the crops after bar,
vest.
Arthur Capper, publisher of the To
peka Daily Capital and allied publica
tons, reports wheat acreage 100000;
corn, 6,930,000 and states that the larg
est crop in the history of the state is
assured. He says that the heads OF
wheat have filled out well and that al
ready threshed has turned out much
better than he expected The recent
hot weather has put corn in as fine
condition as was ever known. Hay
and alfalfa are unusually abundant
Fruit had just the right amount OF
rain.
The Farmers Advocate of Topeka
states that it's threshing reports show
the western section of the state to
have produced eighteen to twenty-five
bushels per acre of wheat of good
quality, which is unusual for western
Kansas. Eastern Kansas yields twenty
to twenty-five bushels per acre.
Henry Wallace, editor of Wallaces
Farmer of Des Moines, writes: Far
mers are now harvesting most ex.
cellent crop of clover and timothy
hay. Pastures have never been better
We may fully expect an average crop
of corn, and little less than an aver
age crop of oats, an average crop of
winter and spring wheat and super,
Tor crop of hay and pasture. This is
a year that has lined with gold the
pockets of the farmer on drained land
but in some cases hit hard the farm
on undrained or low land"
James Atkinson of the Iowa Home
stead reports crop conditions on the
whole better than they were on cor
responding date last year. He esti
mates a corn crop between 250,000,000
and 300,000,000 bushels compared with
ESQ, 100000 last year. He estimates
oats Is per cent larger crop than last
year. Mr.. Atkinson says that, if Iowa
could have a normal season lasting
through September without frost, all
crops grown in the state would be
come nearly as valuable as in 1906
Indiana estimates 100000 bushels
Of wheat, 170,000000 bushels of corn
heavy yield of oats and a hay crop
of unusual promise.
Spring Wheat Crop Good.
In northern Iowa and the states OF
Nebraska, South Dakota and Mime
sofa probably half of the spring wheat
Of the country is grown, the Sioux
City Farmers Tribune reports condi
lions fully 6 per cent better than G
year ago. The winter wheat grown in
this territory has larger acreage and
the yield will be better than that Of
1907. The barley crop will be practi
cally the same as a year ago.
The Dakota Farmer Of Aberdeen. s
D., says: GAS whole crop conditions
in the Dakotas are magnificent, and
we are firmly of the belief that these
two states will produce this year lar
ger crops of wheat, oats, barley, hay
and corn than in any previous year
H. N. Owen, of Farm, Stock ant
Home, Minneapolis, reports practical
ly everything unusually good, bu
states that the amount of rain at corn
planting time has set back the corr
crop.
P. v. Collins of the Northwestern
Agriculturist points out that manufac
turers who seek trade in the north
west this fall will find wonderful
market
The Wisconsin Agriculturist of Ra
cine reports an immense hay crop
farmers entirely satisfied with thu
corn. outlook; tobacco all right excep
for occasional damage from cutworms
probably a falling off of from 10 to 1;
per cent of the tobacco crop. On tn,
basis of 100 per cent the Wisconsin
situation is summarized as follows:
| Winter wheat =. .94L