Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-12-02

Union.
That sounds like a stretching of
the truth, but it is fact, substan-
tiated by statistics gathered by the
department of agriculture.
A. f. Hit, formerly state pure
food and dairy commissioner for
Idaho, now one of the staticians for
the agricultural department in
territory covering parts Of three
states. has compiled an estimate of
the crop yields in Idaho for the year,
and the figures are nothing if not
startling.
He said:
Il find that there were approx
mately 100000 acres of winter
wheat harvested in Idaho this year.
The average yield was 30 bushels
per acre, or a total of 7,59S,OO0
bushels. There were $4,000 acres
of spring wheat. yielding an aver
age of 26 bushels per acre, the total
yield being 4.524.OOO bushels. The
grand toal spring and winter wheat
acreage for this year was 1850
acres, the approximate total yield
was 12,122.0OO bushels, and this at
Is cents per bushel was worth
S9.O91, 500.
Idaho leads all other states in
its average yield per acre in wheat.
In 1907 the average yield all over
the United States was IA bushels per
acre. This year Idaho's average
yield per acre in winter wheat was
20 bushels. The avearge in Kansas,
which is held to be the greatest win
ter wheat state in the world, where
last year the yield in this cereal was
elghty-fonf and 4 half million
bushels, was i4,5 bushels per acre
just exactly half of ldaho's average
Weld Washlngton's yield this year
was 25.S bushels; Oregon's2f; Mis-
souri's 14.7 and Ohio's 1873. Idaho
leads them all,
THE same is true of spring wheat.
The United States average yield per
.~acre was 1919. This year Idaho
yielded 26 bushels, Washington 2O.6
Oregon 1877, Minnesota 1915, Kansas
lis and North Dakota 1871.
I'm the matter of oats. Idahos
showing is equally wonderful. This
year 6,099,OO0 bushels were raised
from approximately $4,000 acres,
an average yield of 44.5 bushels per
acre. According to the departments
statistics, in 1907 the average
United States yield per acre of oats
was 1917 bushels, with only states
yielding above 40 bushels per acre,
and Idaho was one of them. The
value of Idahos oat yield this year
at As cents per bushel was $2,743,-
600.
Two million. four hundred eighty
thousand bushels of barley were
raised in Idaho this year from g..
600 acres, an average yield of 4C
bushels per acre At 45 cents pei
bushel, this yield was worth $3.50.
600. In 1907 the average United
States yield in barley was 2SS
bushels per acre, with only 8 states
above the 4O-bushel-per-acre mark
Colorado. Nevada. Oregon. Idaho
and Washington.
In rye, Idaho this year produce,
46.44O bushels from 216O acres, al
average yield of 21.5 bushels pc
acre, the total yield being worth a
81 cents per bushel, S2S,792 il
1907 the United States average ry
yield per acre was 1914 bushels pc
acre.
"The grand total value of tn
cereal yields in Idaho this year
roughly estimate at $13,2O2,692.
"In estimating the wheat yield i
Idaho for this year. am firm in tn
belief that / am too low. The exaC
figures. when compiled. am sur
win be closer to 100000 than t
100000.
Idaho is coming to be recognized
also, as one Of the greatest potat
states in the Union. In the matte
Of yield per acre, it takes first ranl
but in acreage, of course. it fall
far below such states as New Yorl
which in 1907 produced over Al
100000 bushels; Wisconsin wit
22.000.000 bushels. and Michiga
with 26,OOO.OOO bushels. But whe
you come to think that in 1907 tn
average yield per acre all over tn
United States was only 954 bushe
per acre, and then consider tn,
Idaho's average yield this year W,
very close to 200 busehls per acr
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