Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-06
Has Best Yield of Winter Wheat
and Oats OF Any County
i'm Iowa
EQUALS STATE RECORD ON CORN
Farmer Getting as Much Now For
Grain as He Did Year Ago, and
Raised Much Moro in 1903 Than
1907 - Wheat Averaged 90, Oats 81
and Corn IS Bushels Per Acre.

OF Marshall county farmers as to the
quality of their land and the way it
ranks with other Iowa counties, the
1908 crop report for Iowa will dispel
any question that may have arisen.
Marshall county, in 1908, led the en-
tire state in the average yield per acre
OF both winter wheat and oats. making
a record of 81 bushels to the acre in
wheat, and 81 in oats. The total yield,
other counties where the average was
not so high
In corn Marshall county equaled the
record of Iowa, and with Story county
which adjoins on the west. made an av-
erage yield per acre of 45 bushels Mar
shall countys total corn yield was A.
6o6,2G0. but story, which equaled the
highest yield with Marshall, raised 49,
200 bushels less in Its total yield. There
were seven counties in Iowa that raised
more corn than Marshall-Bento Dali
las. Tama, Plymouth, Pottawattamie
and Sioux. Plymouth holds the state
record in total yield. having raised H.
204,100 bushels, but it's average per
acre was four bushels less than Mar
shali's.
In oats Marshall county's yield of 81
Iowa, altho there were several counties
= Al s~1 NJ
county's total yield was 1.942.100.
Even in rye. which is not raised ex-
tensively in this county. Marshalrs av-
erage yield per acre of "a bushels was
exceeded by only Hamilton and Shell
by. with % bushels.
There were several counties in the
state that raised more barley. but only
very few that exceeded the average
acre yield of 80 bushels. Hardin county
heads the barley yield per acre, at
SO.
The fax seed yield was larger in only
one county. Hamilton. which averaged
10 bushels to the acre to Marshall
county's 10. Several other counties.
however, equaled Marshalls record.
On the land Of Marshall county there
were also grown during 1908 $4,000 tons
Of tame hay, which yielded an average
of tons to the acre, and $3.50 tonssNf
wild hay. which went III tons per acre.
County's Potato Yield. q
Marshall countys potato yield for the
year just closed was 2O0,400 bushels,
and the fields in pototaes yielded an
average of 120 bushels to the acre.
Scott county yielded the greatest mum
Der of bushels. $4,000, but the yield per
acre was only 10 bushels. Grundy
county raised the second largest total
yield in the state, 416,200 bushels. and
its yield was five bushels more per ACRE
291 900 bushels with a 125-bushel per
acre yield; and Cherokee 209,2e0, with
155 bushels per acre
Other counties exceeding MarshaiIs
average per acre were Buena Vista,
story, Warren and Clay, but none
Of these counties had as large O. yield
as Marshall. Both Buena Vista and
Clay had an average yield of 142 BUSH
els. Buena Vista raised a total of no.
400 bushels, and Clay 110.T60. Story and
Warren each averaged $50 bushels per
acre Story's total yield was 1900,
and Warren's 12S,70O. The other coun-
ties in the state that had larger total
yields, but a less yield per acre, are
as follows: Tana 210,000, 100 bushels
to the acre; Bremen, 263,140, lbs BUSH
els to the acre; Dubuque 214,440 eigh-
ty-nine bushe,s to the acre; suscatine
200, 700, ninety bushels to the acre;
Pottawattamie 2O3,25O, seventy-five
bushels to the acre.
Comparison Of Prices.
The prices for the 1908 and 1907
crops, according to dealers, are about
the same in most lines Of farmers
products, but the yield of 1908 was in
excess of the year preceding in prac-
tically every line. Hay is the only
comomdity that shows cheaper price
now than a. year ago, and is selling to-
day 81 cheaper than a year ago. Deal
ers are paying SO per ton for timothy
hay today: so cents for corn, SS for
wheat, and "A for oats.
In Marshall county, while the yield
per acre was probaly not as heavy in
potatoes, there was much greater
and it is said by dealers that
there We're more potatoes raised in
1908 than in the year preceding. This
claim is based on the way the potatoes
NOR r FACT,