The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-02
CROP CONDITIONS
GOOD IN STATE
BULLETIN OF STATE BOARD OF
AGRICULTURE MAKES GOOD
SHOWING GRAIN AND FRUIT.

issued To-Day, SnNeS the growing cOhul-
ton of winter wheat as SS.3 per cent,
compared with $40 last month and
1.5 a year ago. Good growing wealth
er and seasonable rains have helped
the crop except in Kay and Grant
were not sufficient to check damage
by chinch bugs, resulting in the plow-
ing up of much wheat and oats and
planting the land to corn. The aban-
doned acreage for the state Is only 2.l
per cent, compared with IL last month
and ia Year ago. Only twenty-five
counties report any at all. Kay coun-
ty shows % per cent abandoned.
Noble and Grant following with II and
S respectively. Kiowa, Harmon and
Texas report to per cent aban-
doned on account of damage from high
winds
The acreage to be harvested is es-
timated at 1,537 ,423 acres. against T.,
600 ,235 in 1909, and this, with the
prospect for a good yield, indicates
that the total. wheat crop of the state
will be the largest ever raised.
Reports from sixty cotton growing
counties show the cotton acreage to
be ll9.1 per cent of that of last year.
although reports were hard TO get on
account OF the backward season and
! late planting. Later reports VIII
probably show a still greater increase.
The reports show that in many sec
tions much of the crop is yet to ne
planted and that 11.2 per cent of the
crop is being replanted. The estimate
acreage this year is 2.169,9 1898 acres. as
against 1,296,i15 last year.
| The growing condition of cotton is
reported as So per cent, compared
with 72.7 a year ago. Conditions are
generally good and. although the sea
son will be late, the prospects are lot
more than an average crop. The Dlg
cotton counties report the best conol-
tion. and the counties where compare
tively little is grown pull down the
average. Reports from fifty OF the
cotton producing counties show the
Weld Of lint per acre last year to be
4 174.5 per cent. against 1884 in 1908.
Corn condition is still improving in
snite of the backward weather and the
fact that approximately Q per cent OF
the total acreage has been replanted
on account of excessive rain. hail ana
door stands. The condition is report
ed as 92.3 ner cent, compared with 9l.2
last month and S3.9 a year ago. The
plants are reported healthy. The hle
gest corn counties report a condition
of 95 to 100 per cent. Kay and Grant
counties, where some injury has been
done by chinch bugs, are the only ones
reporting any insect damage to the
corn crop
The oats crop has suffered severely
from the drouth in the southwest and
chinch bug damage in Kay, Noble and
Grant counties. The growing condition
is reported as S5.i per cent, compared
with 9O.9 last month and 71.2 a yeaI
ago.
Alfalfa also suffered somewhat from
insufficient rains in some sections up
to about two weeks ago. but the con
dition Is reported as 91.6 per cent
compared with g2.3 last month and 73.S
last wear. Reports indicate that the
big increased acreage sown this year
is doing well. except in the southwest
ern part OF the state, where the rain
was insufficient to secure good
stand.
Reports from l02 leading fruit grow
ers throughout the state, covering
twenty-eight counties, show that there
will not be as full fruit crop in Okla
homa this year as was anticipated last
month. on account of dana &c by frost
hail and extreme variation in general
/ weather cOndltlOnS. Ill some io'"itl'a
there will be a full crop of fruit of all
kinds. while in some localities on the
east side there will he practically no
fruit at oil, except on the high lands
The reports indicate that there w1ll
be 76.g per cent of full peach crop
compared with a prospect of 40 pei
cent at this time last year; % per
ent of an apple crop. compared Wit
S4S last year: IL per cent of a peal
crop, compared with 500 per cent la g
year. and 65.S per cent of full crt
of other fruits. compared with g. p"l
cent last year.