The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-06-01
CONDITION
j. Of: CROPS
=. .. Y. IMPROVES
OKLAHOMA DOING BET
TER FARMING THAN
EVER BEFORE
RAInS Of PAST MONTH
MATERIALLY. HELPED
"Dumper' Crop on All Glasses
Of Farm Products
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weather for this season Of the year.
.lhe early planted cotton is reported
10 have been not damaged at all b,
the backward weather on account OF
the p.ant being well advanced before
this weather set in The late cotton
fas not thrived as well but the stand
IS generally reported good and, al
though the season will be late, the
prospects are far more than an aver
age crop. Twenty-eight of the sixty
totton-growing counties report the
condition 80 per cent and above, anu
q number of counties which grow but
comparatively little cotton have re-
duced the average for the state.
Cotton Yield Big Last Year
Reports from fifty OF the cotton
Producing counties show the cotton
Weld per acre for last year TO be
l745 pounds of lint as compared with
i2S.4 pounds in 1908. The 1909 agri-
cultural statistics which were gath.
cred by township assessors, which ase
row being received by this depart
ment, show about the same proper
tionate increase in the yield per acre.
Corn Continues To improve
The condition of corn is Still i'm.
proving, despite the backward wealth
er condition and the fact that ap-
proximately 8 per cent of the total
acreage for the state has been re-
planted on account of excessive rains,
hail and poor stands
The seventy counties reporting
show the growing condition on May
%. 1910, to be 99.3 per cent as COM
pared with 9l.2 per cent for last
month and S3.9 per cent on May 20,
1909. The reports recite that condi-
tons are above the average, consid'
ering the lateness OF the season. and
that the plant is healthy The ma
jority of the reports from the big pro
Gucing counties are between 95 and
100 per cent, and the average was re-
duced by a few reports as low as SO
per cent from counties where the
acreage is small. Grant and Kay
counties, which report some damage
hy chinch bugs, are the only ones
out of the seventy producing counties
reporting any insect damage to the
corn crop.
Condition OF Oats
On account of the drouth in the
southwest portion of the state, which
was only recently broken by heavy
rains, and material damage by chinch
bugs in parts of Kay, Noble and Grant
counties, the oats crop suffered much
during the past several weeks. The
growing condition on May 25, 1910,
Is reported at S3.4 per cent, as COM
pared with 909 per cent for last
month, showing falling off of 75
per cent during the month. The con
dition of oats on April "a, 1909, was
7l2 per cent.
Condition OF Alfalfa
Although the alfalfa crop has suf-
fered on account of insufficient rains
in some sections of the state up tol
two weeks ago, the condition of the
crop on May 25, 1910, was 91.6 per
cent as compared with 925 per cent
for last month and TBS per cent on
May %, 1909 The reports indicate
that the big increased acreage sown
this spring is doing well, except that
planted in the southwestern part OF
the state where the rainfall was in.
sufficient to secure a good stand.
The prospects are for a good crop
even in this section as they have
prospects for two and three good
cuttings yet this season.
Conclusion
A careful study of this report and
Il comparison with the previous re-
ports issued this season will convince
the reader that the general crop con
ditions have improved from month tol
month, and that the Oklahoma farmer
Il doing better farming today than
ever before, as they are learning that
careful seed selection, good prepara'
ton of the soil and continuous culti-
Isation of the growing crops pay
handsome dividends.
The weather conditions generally |
for the month were favorable to all
growing crops, with the exception OF
cotton and the notable absence OF
hot and destructive winds. and the
fact that there hasfbeen no extreme
variations in weather eonditions and
no excessive precipitpIens has ma-
terially aided in brm gfn abont 'thei
! esent splendid, conditions, for a
bumper crop on all classes Of farm
products. The average rainfall for
the state, for the month ending May
e5, 1910. was S.02 inches, as compaS
Ell with 5.S4 inches for the same
period in 1909.