The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1910-12-15
December Crop Report
for Missouri

That the year 1910 has been one o
progress. prosperity and plenty foI
Missouri farmers IS shown BY the De
cember crop report on corn, whea
and oats. This report issued today
from the Office of I. C. Wilson, sec
retary of the Missouri State Board Of
Agriculture, shows that the state:
corn yield amounts to 10000 car
loads of 500 bushels each, or moo
train loads, each train containing
twenty-five loaded cars. These trains,
if placed on a single track so that
each engine would touch the caboose
in front Of il, would extend from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific oceans and in
addition MI side track as long as
from St Louis to Kansas City.
II is also a matter of pride for Mis-
sourians to know that this years corn
yield in only one-half the counties in
the state equals the total corn crop OF
one-half the total number of states
and territories in the Union One
Missouri county alone produced more
corn this year than did eleven states
and territories combined.
The complete neport is as follows:
C0RN-MiSsouri's total yield of
corn for the present year is placed at
252, Az, 100 bushels, the average yield
for the entire state being S2.4bushels
per acre, or five bushels-or to put il
in Missouri measure, one barrel
more than last year This years
yield is also considerably above the
l0year average of 2S.s bushels per
acre. Missouri has had few some
what more favorable seasons for corn
growing, the spring being cold and
wet making it necessary to plant
much corn a second time, but what
was lacking in favorable conditions
was more than made up by careful
seed selection and better cultivation
a result, in large measure, of Mis-
souri's corn campaign conducted by
the State Board Of Agriculture and
Agricultural College.
The 1910 corn acreage is placed at
7,795, 1856, an acreage never exceeded
in the history OF the state. Two
causes are largely responsible for the
immense number Of acres harvested.
Practically no corn was lost by over
flows in the river bottoms or their
tributaries, while in other years mil
lions of acres of corn have been lost
in this way. The other item of in
creased acreage comes in wheat
ground plowed up last spring and
planted to corn. %
1t is gratifying to note that Missouri
has increased her corn yield per capita
from SO bushels in 1900 to 72.5 BUSH
els in 1910, a gain of 1875 bushels in
single decade.
The farm price Of corn in Missouri
this year is given as APT cents or
l5.4 cents less than last year, when it
was So cents. AS a result of this
decidedly lower price the total esti-
mated value of this years corn crop
is only slO7, 0l9, 354, orapproximately
seven million dollars less than last
year.
The quality of this years corn crop,
thanks to a late and favorable fall, is
placed at SO for the state. While the
quality is generally good, there is
considerable complaint of soft and
poorly matured corn in limited dis
tricts.
The leading county in the state, in
point of yield per acre, is St. Charles
with As bushels. Other leading coun-
ties, by crop division sections, are as
follows: Northeast, St. Charles, with
Marion, As, second; Northwest, La
fayette and Platte, 81 each; Central,
Cole, 40; Southwest, Christian and
Greene, IS each; Southeast, Franklin
43. Saline is the leading corn county
Of the state in total number of BUSH
els produced, its estimated yield be-
ing 6,88, 092 bushels. Other leading
counties, by sections are Northeast,
Audrain, 4,645, 728; Northwest, Noda-
way with 6,374,754 bushels and
Atchison with 5,663, 936; Central
Saline, 8,S38, O92; Southwest Vernon
1884, $50; Southeast, Franklin, 1882
$50.