Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-29
BREAD CROP
LOOKS A BUMPER AGAIN

Americas greatest food crop will be
a bumper again in 10.
This is the cheering news brought to-
day in special dispatches to The Journal
from central points covering the wheat
growing country. Despite the rather
unusual and changeable spring weather
in some sections, and winter killing in
others, the reports of farmers and ex-
perts are that the crop generally is
showing splendidly at this time, and
that all prospects are most optimistic.
1nsufficiency of snow in several of
the states in the southwestern groups,
known as the worlds granary, will
cause a shortage in the wheat crop in
some of the states affected, notably Kan
sas. which may sh ow a 5O,O0O,o00 bushel
loss, but this shortage is more than off
set by the splendid condition of the
young crop in the new country lying to
the far west, south and north west, and
me fair conditioner average condition
of the staple in the older states of the
central division, the east and the old
south.
A special to The Journal from Spo-
kane, Wash, the center of the great
inland empire wheat country of the
far north west, says that all indications
point to a record crop for 1910. The cor
respondent estimates that Washington,
Idaho and Oregon this year will market
60,OVO,O00 bushels of wheat. This is
approximately 1-12th or the total Ameri-
can wheat crop last year.
In Lincoln county, Washington, alone,
the crop this year is expected to exceed
1900 900 bushels.
he r.
ton the winter wheat is in better condi-
ton than it has been ror years, and
the same applies to the Nee Pcrces res
ervation and Mamas prairie in Idaho.
The group of states comprising the
far western group and incluliDg Monta-
ma, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho,
Washington Oregon and California show
a higher average on the condition of the
crop this year than last. Tie Califor-
MIA crop shows a per cent increase
this year over last. and Wyoming, Titan
anu Colodardo will average about The
same as last year.
The most optimistic crop special today
was from Oklahoma City. Okla. The
correspondent said that in Texas 100000
acres had been planted in wheat and that
the expert estimate of the crop was U.s.
100000 bushels. The crop is practically
made, in perfect shape and too far ad-
Oklahoma the acreage sown in wheat
is Is per cent of the area of the entire
state, and the Oklahoma grain men ex-
pect to harvest fully 80 per cent of the
crop, which will set a new high mark for
wheat harvested I'm this new state.
North and South Dakota, with Mime
sofa forming three of the greatest wheat
raising states in the union, are in good
condition, according to the crop experts.
in he uyho n fhAGA
three states is practically completed.
Heavy SHOWS last winter protected the
ground from deep frost, and the early
spring permitted the seeding to begin
on March Is. In southern Minnesota and
parts of South Dakota the early sown
grain has sprouted and the indications
are that it will be a foot high at the
time the first shoots appear in other
years In the northwest there will prob
ably be a decrease in durum wheat sown
and an increase in velvet chaff spring
wheat.
The states in the central group are
not as we'll known as the western states
for wheat, but millions of bushels of the
golden grain are harvested each year in
Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin and Kentucky, and in each of the
states mentioned an increase ranging
from / per cent i'm Kentucky to per cent
in Ohio and Wisconsin is confidently ex-
pected by the farmers and government
and state crop experts.
In the south the wheat is not i'm good
condition in several of the states, and
the indications are for a short crop in
South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and
Alabama. These conditions are, howev-
err, offset by the anticipated Increase
in the wheat harvested in Mississippi,
North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia,
Arkansas, Delaware and Maryland, the
percentage of increase ranging from
per cent In North Carolina. to per cent
in West Virginia, per cent in Virginia
and per cent i'm little Delaware.
The first government crop report of
the season deals almost exclusively with
wheat and shows plainly the tendency
toward increasing the acreage under cul-
tivation In December the government
crop reporters estimated that 33.4S3.0OU
acres had been sovn in winter wheat,
which acreage exceeded that of last year
by 2450.O00 acres.