The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

state board of agriculture on these
three crops this year. The board has
previously estimated the wheat crop
at 26 million bushels, and oat crop at
10 million bushels, alfalfa at $lO,OOO,O 900
worth. The cotton crop will run be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 bales.
The cotton crop improved its condi-
tion five per cent 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 all Of
the seventy-seven counties in the
state that the yield per acre of corn
this season is 16.1 bushels, as COM
pared with a yield of 1871 bushels for
the 1909 crop as shown by the town
ship assessors returns. The estimated
acreage grown to corn this year is
5.517.917, as compared with 5,235, 1888
for the 1909 crop.
The estimated number of bushels
produced this season is $685. ,490 as
compared with 70,616,250 bushels
raised last year. The estimated yield
of corn as compared with normal
crop given in the report is shown
to be in close conformity with the
prospective estimate made last month
which is very gratifying to the de-
partment, as it 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 Thirty-seven coun-
ties this year produced over million
bushels, and thirteen of these counties
produced between 100000 and g.
100000 bushels while last year only
twenty-three counties produced as
much as a million bushels and only
six of these produced over two mil
lion bushels.
Only eleven counties in the state
this year produced less than a half
million bushels of corn, while last
year twenty-three counties or more
than twice as many, did not produce
that much corn.
Caddo county. which has the larg-
est corn acreage of any county in the
state, is first with a yield of 3,S10,925
bushels, which is about half of nor
NAL yield in the county. Mcintosh
county where big increased acreage
was planted this year and an average
yield of 80 bushels per acre was made
is second with 3,049,320 bushels. Craig
county, another new corn producing
county is third with a yield of 1886,
610 bushels, while Garvln, Wagner
and Washita counties are next with
over 100000 bushels each.
Cotton Better Than Expected.
Reports from the cotton producing
counties reeite that the crop is turning
out better than expected; that the
damage by boil worms in some local
tiles is not as great as indicated last
month, and that the drouth did not
effect the crop as much as was antici
pated. Twenty of the large producing
counties report the yield turning out
much better than they had expected
and that yield will be the best IL
several years.
The correspondents estimate 70i
per cent of normal yield as compar
ed with 71.3 per cent last month ant
with 54.2 per cent of August %, 1909
The department made a special invest
igation this month to ascertain the
damage to the cotton crop this sea
son by the boil worms which were
quite active in a number of counties
The report shows the damage done
~ AAtNnN HNoto W NC AlsR pei Ntnt W nix
the damage reported last month by
all insects was 14.0 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 nineteer
per cent, and the prospective yielC
20 per cent better than last year The
1910 crop bids fair to be a material
increase over lest years yield of 544,
944 bales. Notwithstanding the fact
that the present season is later thar
last year, the U. S. census report
shows that 419,gS5 bales had beer
ginned on October 18th as compared
with 919,429 bales on the same date
last year.
100000 Bushels of kaffir Corn.
The report shows the kaffir corr
crop this season to be the best in sew
eral years and the grain yield pc
acre to be much better than corn. al
the average yield per acre is givel
at 1928 bushels while the corn viel,