The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-16
WORK FOR TILL MONTH.
(The Southern P1anter.)

uyas yarv hot and heavy thunder
storms were prevalent almost every
dav This weather coming just when
the wheat and oats a been cut anu
we're standing in the shocks waiting
for the thresher. has, no doubt, caused
much damage all through the Atlantic
Coast States, and especially IN th1s
and the adjoining States nortn anu
south where the rain was exceptlohaii
heavy. Oats we les have suffered Sc
verely as the soft straw absorbs ram
much more than wheat straw, and the
neat caused rapid spelling OF the out
side Of the shocks. where
wheat was we'll shocked it may per-
haps not have sustained very SERIOUS
damage but it cannot fail to have SUI
fered TO some extent rms is nlost
unfortunate as we had in this State
probably the best prospect for a heavy
Weld of fine wheat We had had Tor
many years. At this writing (Zlst
July) the weather is very propltlous
with a cool and dry wind, which Will
quickly dry out the shocks. OWING
to the bad weather threshing has as
yet made but little progress and we
are, therefore, unable to say how the
Weld is turning out. 1t is to be nOpeu
that it will prove satisfactory, as every
bushel of wheat produced IN TINS
country this year is going to be need
ed, and needed badly to feed our peO-
ple. At the best we shall have none
to spare for other countries. The gov
crop report for July LIST, or
at harvest Of the winter wheat. makes
the condition Of this crop 81, which
is just bou the ten year average
and would indicate a yield on the area
harvested of about 430, 100000 bushess
or about 5000, 900 bushels less than
the yield last year. Mr.. Snow, the
statiStician, whose crop estimates are
usually very accurate, makes the yield
much less than the government. He
puts the total winter wheat crop at
$50. O0G.00O bushels We ourselves eS-
innate it at 100000 0 bushels, as
stated in our last issue. The spring
wheat CROP has suffered a great disas-
ter. The drouth which we mentioned
in our last issue has persisted, ana
badly over much the larger part OF
the spring wheat area, and the condi-
ton on July LIST was put at 81. Pro-
berbly over muvh the larger part Of
the area not half an average crop will
be made and it will do we'll if the
crop makes 100000, 900 bushels. This
added to O ,CG0,0e0 bushels OF win
ter wheat will make the total Whea
crop 600, 100000 bushels. as against
1877, 900, 600 bushels a year ago. In he
face of this prospect the price has
hardened and is still advancing On
this market it is now (21st July)
quoted at s1.10, and IN Chicago a
Viva. we expect TO see wheat con
tinue to advance in price to q consid-
erab4y higher figure. than this as
there is serious damage done to the
crop in Canada and also South Russia
by drouth, and the French and Eng
lish crops are not Very promising. We
would be in no hurry to sell wheat If
we had facilities for holding it. We ex-
pect much of l. crop will be soft and
will require considerable drying before
it is fit to store. The happening of
a wet period iust after the grain is cut
would seem TO point very strongly to
the Importance of farmers stacking
their wheat as soon as it is dry enough
to bulk. Had this been done this
year much grain would nave been
saved and ell would ave been In a
much better condition.. If farmers
would put up Dutch barns, which are
simply roofs supported on poles, they
would find the cost amply repaid in
grain and condition. The cost Of such
q barn is small and the convenience
for housing grain or hay crops is great.
The indications are that the oat
will be a good one Probably
5000, 900 bushels larger than that Of
last year, though this may yet be some
what affected 10y drouth, which is pre-
vailing in the Northern and North
western States.
The government estimate of the
corn crop acreage is over 100000
acres, or oven 5000, 900 acres larger
than that Of last year, and the condi-
ton is placed at IS as com pared with
80 a year ago. MIR. Snow does not
make the total acreage quite so large,
as he puts it at nearly 05,060,0 900
acres. Even at this reduced figure It
is the largest crop ever planted here,
and the largest single crop ever plant
ed in any country in the world. The
area planted In Virginia is 2,142,o0o
acres; in North Carolina, 3,o72,ooo
acres, and in South Carolina, 2,412,0eo
acres. The area planted in the South
Is S per cent in excess of that planted
last year. Over a considerable part
of the corn belt the yielc is not going
to be a full average one as STANDS are
defective from bad seed, and in some
parts the growth has not been salts