Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-11-01
THE CORN CROP
FORCES AHEAD
1910 WELD ~ 20 MILLION BUSH
Els MORE THAN IN 1909
.CADDO COUNTY is FIRST
Cot'On l. Bctler Than Expected
hnlllr Corn Nicld-lilg Spuds
Also Increase.

Guthrie, okla, Oct. 3l,-Ninoty
million bushels OF corn II million
/ bushels Of kanir corn and 1850, 600
bushels OF Irish potatoes is the csti-
mate OF the state hoard OF agriculture
on these three crops this year. The
2 board has previously estimated the
wheat crop at 2G million bushels. and
oat crop az ~ million bushels. alfalfa
at $4,000 600 worth, The cotton crop
win run between $4,000 and 600, 900
bales
The cotton crop improved It's condl-
ton five percent last month according
To the september report Issued today,
as follows;
The Oklahoma State Board of Agri-
culture finds from the reports Of 3S9
crop correspondents covering ali of
the seventy-seven counties In the
state that the Yield per acre OF corn
this season Is l61 bushels. as com
pared with yield OF 1871 bushels
for the 1909 crop as shown by the
township assessors returns The es-
tlmated acreage grown to corn TINS
year Is 5,j17917, as compared with
| 5,235,3S3 for the 1909 crop
The estimated number of bushels
! produced this season Is 90 $50, 400 az
compared with 70,6l6,250 bushels
! raised last year, The estimated yled
Of corn as compared with normal
crop given In the report Is shown
to be In close conformity with the
prospective estimatne made last month
which Is very gratifying to the de-
partment, ms II indicates intelligent
and reliable work upon the part of
the crop correspondents. on account
of the shortness of the crop this year
| in the large producing counties no
! big county yields are shown by the
report The present year, as sixteen
counties this year have over 100000
acres, as compared with eleven for
| the previous year. Thlrty-seven coun-
ties this year produced over million
bushels, and thirteen of these counties
produced between 100000 and g..
900 900 bushels while last year only
| twenty-three counties produced as
much as million bushels and only
six Of these produced over two mill
lion bushels.
only eleven counties In the state
this year produced less than hulr
million bushels OF corn. while last
year twenty-three counties or more
than twice as many, did not proGuce
lllhl lnhfn NbIHs
| Caddo County. which has the larg-
est corn acreage of any county In the
state, Is first with Weld Of 3sf0.925
bushels, which Is about half of a nor
NAL Yield In the county Mcintosh
, County where a big increased acreage
was planted this year and an average
yield OF 80 bushels per acre was made.
Is second with 3,0i9,320 bushels Craig
County another new corn producing
county is third with a yield OF ease
! clio bushels while Garvin, Wagoner
and Washlta Counties are next with
over 2, 100000 bushels each.
Cotton Better Than Expected.
Reports from the cotton producing
counties recite that The crop is turnlwg
olt better than eXpected that the
damage by boil worms In some local.
ties Is not MS great as Indicated last
month, and that the drouth did not
effect the crop as much as was antic-
| ipntcd Twenty Of the large producing
counties report the Yield turning out
much better than they had expected
mad that the yield will be the best In
several yeHrs.
The correspondents estimate 7G.7
per cent Of normal yield NJ compar-
ed with 7t3 per cent last month and
with ji.2 per cent Of August 49, 1903.
The department made a special inves-
tigatlon this month TO ascertain the
damage 10 the cotton crop this sea-
son by the boil worm which were
quite active In number Of counties.
The report shows the damage done
by these pests 10 be lS per cent while
the damage reported last month hv
an insects was l4.0 per cent. The boil
worm operated In fifty-two counties
this season and the damage in thirty
counties was from 10 TO 3s per cent
with an increased acreage OF nineteen
per cent. and the prospective yield
20 per cent better than last year. The
1919 crop bids fair 20 be material
increase over last years yield Of 5i4.-
9ii bales Notwithstanding the fact
that the present season is later than
last year, the u. s. census report
shows that 419,yS5 bales had been
glnned on October 18th as compared
with 3t9,429 bales on the same date
last year
1900 900 Bushels OF kallir Corn.
The report shows the ffaffir corn
crop this season TO be the best In sew
eral years and the grain yield per
acre to be much better than corn. as
the average Weld per acre Is given
at 22.3 bushels while the corn yield
was only t6t bushels The kahr
corn grain yield per acre last year
according 10 the assessors returns was
4.G bushels. showing the remarkable
difference In favor of this years crop
cf III bushels. The total estimated
yield Of the grain crop Is 1l,011,261
as compared with 2.255,470 for the
1908 crop. The greater part of this
big kaflir corn yield was raised In
Western oklahoma, where II Is needed
for winter feeding on account OF the
corn crop being almost a failure in
some sections. The big kafiir corn
grain yield made this year when corn
/ In the same localities was hardly
worth harvesting demonstrates very
forclbly that farmers In Southwestern
and Western oklahoma would make
surer and ms good feeding crop as
corn by raising kaifir corn and milo
maize
The kc'iir corn forage crop averaged
30 tons per acre as compared with i2
ton per acre for the 1909 crop. The
estimated number OF tons OF forage
raised this season is given at 1.190.333
tons as COMPARED with 225.5S2 tons
for last years crop.
I The estimated acreage Of katflr corn