The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-08-01
State Board Of Agriculture Gives Figures
Refuting Alarmist Reports Sent Out to
the Effect That Oklahoma Crops Were
Destroyed By Drouth--- Yields Will
Average Up With Previous Years.

The Oklahoma State Board OF Agriculture finds
from the reports of its $40 township correspondents.
covering all Of the seventysx counties In the state,
that on the 25th Of July 1870 the growing condition
OF corn was GAL per cent compared with S54 last
month and with 64.3 per cent July 25th, 1909,
showing a decrease compared with last month of
213 per cert against the decrease OF 256 per cent
during the same period last year. Last month, like
july last year, has been hard month the corn
CROP except In the eastern and southern parts Of the
state where there almost twice the average rain
fall during the month insnring the biggest yields in
years In thirty-one countless Hot winds, chnch bugs
and several weeks drouth has materiall ydamaged
the crop In the central and western counties with the
exception OF the western portion Of the Panhandle
section and some localities on the extreme western
boundary line of the state The rainfall in the western
and central portions has been largely local and In
some Of the counties where is damaged the worst
the crop Is above the average In townships, on
cunt of timely local rains Thirty-six counties
port from to inches OF rain during the month, but
the average rainfall for the state for the month end
Ing July 25th according to government records, was
only Isl inches which is about inches below normal.
kngfisher County where the crop has suffered Tor
lack Of rain for sixty days reports the maximum dam
age or n per cent Garfield, Noble, Payne and Logan
also report 20 per cent damage. 1'ilnnan Jackson.
Pawnee Grant Dewey and Alfalfa counties report 60
per cent damage, while ten other counties report from
so to GO per cent of crop It is estimated that in
these twenty affected counties there is acreage Of
only 100000. less than one-thrd of the 5,G95,i0
acres planted this spring.
sections OF the State that report the cornocondtons
from 80 to 1l0 per cent, compared with 10 to so
per cent last at this time have 100000 OF
this years crop. Leading farmers and grainmeL on the
eastern side of the state declare that these counties will
double the yields of last year. and that these counties
alone will raise as much corn as raised In the
entire state in 1909.
Corn In the other twenty-five countless which in
clude several OF the big cornproducing counties ocat
cd in central and western Oklahoma, Is reported to be
from 60 to 80 cent OF full CROP and without fur
ther damage will likely turn out the
for the state which, according to the government ten
year average, Is SO per cent The estimated acreage
of this seasons chop in these twenty-five counties Is
l,S00OO0 acres.
According to the assessors returns, 70221972 bush
els OF corn raised In the state last year and with
the increased acreage Of II cent and the average
condition of the crop dentcally the this time
last year. there is why much greater yield
will not be made this year under normal conditions.
notwithstanding the reports being sent out of the
state by crop kileds who seek to give the public the
impression that Okahoma's corn crop has been COM
petely ruined
COTTON HOLDS UP WELL.
Reports from sxtyfour out of the seventy-six
ties reporting gives the growing condition of cotton on
July 25th, as S61 per cent compared with S97 last
month and with 1873 year ago which shows that the
crop has held up well under the unusually hot and dry
weather. Noble. Pawnee and Payne counties report
the lowest percentages ranging from 81 to So per cent
No apparent change in the condition of the op has
CONTINUED Psge Four)