The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-06-21
FARMERS NOW
CRYING FOR RAIN
RAIN NEEDED TO BETTER CROPS
OVER THE STATE-CONDlTiO
GENERALLY GOOD.

htpOIlS llOIl neatly c'Nly uiSlIICl
of Oklahoma indicate that crops in
general are in a flourishing condition,
although somewhat later than usual.
and weather conducive to growth dur.
ing the remainder of June and July.
will return bumper yields in practi-
cally al sections of the state. More
moisture than usual has fallen this
spring, and the ground is in excellent
condition, although corn has begun to
feel the drouth of the last week, and
lack of rain for very much longer
period will have harmful effect upon
the crop. While some localities report
too much rain and others complain of
the need of showers, the rainfall has
on the whole been unusually we'll dis
tributed such as to give promise Of
heavy cereal and cotton yields in near
ly all localities throughout Oklahoma.
An encouraging feature of the reports
is that the crop appears to be remark
ably clean, being freer than usual from
the various insect pests that have so
often wrought havoc with promising
fields in the past. 1t is early in the
crop season, however and chinch bugs
and boll-weevil have time to spread
devastation in the agricultural dis
trintc Slioht +rn,thlo bng
ed from some districts as regards the
chinch bug, but it is practically cer-
of the past. AS yet, the boll-weevil
is not working, but it always gives
counties. John r. Fields of the Okla
homa Farm Journal, who keeps in
close touch with agricultural condi-
tions throughout the state and can be
relied upon as authority, is greatly en-
couraged because of the absence of in.
sects
He says that wheat has been almost
totally free from the ravages of the
Hessian fly. He thinks scientific meth
DDS used to fight these pests have had
but little to do with conditions, as it
seems well nigh impossible to induce
any considerable proportion of the
farmers to employ them.
The harvesting of the grain crop is
we'll under way, and it is certain that
1t will equal if not surpass the big
yield of last year. The reports are
most encouraging from the heavy
wheat belt in the northern part of the
state and harvest hands are flocking
there from all parts of the country.
The grain acreage is growing year by
year, and heavy yields will be reported
from many southern and western dis
trlcts where the crop was in the ma
ture of an experiment this season.
The wheat acreage is larger than
last year and the general yield will
be higher. The harvest is now in full
swing and with favorable weather
ought to be completed the coming
week. The quality of the product is
fine, The wheat yield to the acre will
be larger this season than ever before,
although it is as yet too early to OBJ
tain figures. The greatest increase
will be in the western part of the state
where the acreage has been light III
the past,
The Oat acreage is unusually .
large this year, especially in the south.
eastern iounties, where corn and cotton
have been the chief crops heretofore.
Coal. Pittsburg, Leflore
and many other counties in that local
ity report flourishing oat crops and
the yield from those counties will be
The northern and western
counties will surpass their usual heavy
crcp. In general the present oat crop
is the best the state has ever raised.
The dry weather of the past few days
has furnished ideal conditions for the
Development ana maturing of oats
free fIom the usual rusts which cut
he yield down.
Corn is in good condition now, but
hat crop is always a gamble. At pres.
ent it is in every stage from the com.
ng-up to the tasseling-out, the aver
lge being perhaps two weeks late.
Rain is badly needed in some districts,
md unless it comes in ten days the
rop will suffer seriously. The acre
Ige is about the same as last year, I
md with average conditions as TO
ainfali from now until the first OF
august the state should raise crop
4 at least i5O,OOO,OOO bushels. as
gainst 100, ,O00 .O00 bushels last year.
The corn crop will be mihe In Okla.
oms by August 1. i