Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-10-03
1871 CROP MOST
VALUABLE OF ALL
ANNUAL CROP REPORT ISSUED BY
LORD 4 THOMAS SHOWS
GOOD CONDITIONS.
BIG GAIN IN IOWA.
Field Crop More Valuable Despite
Drought; Middle Western States
Report Farmers Feeling Good
Over Situation.

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That the bugbear of hard times
|prophesied in connection with recent
reports Of general crop failures is
thoroughly unfounded is proved by the
annual crop report Issued by Lord &
Thomas of Chicago. for 1911.
President c. r. Erwin, in discussing
his sources of information which led
to the above statement mentioned that
he had deduced optimistic conclusions
from data gathered for him by the
agricultural press all over the country.
Farm papers,. said Mr.. Erwin, par
ticularly those with restricted or local
lied circulation, are in the very best
position to give net facts as regards
all the papers furnishing Lord &
Thomas with crop information re-
ceived their reports, not from mere
personal inspection of conditions gen
orally, hnt from their subscribers as
to the actual production of each town
ship and many individual farms"
While 1t is true that, speaking ma
tionally. there will be shortage in
grain products. on the other hand
prices for these products show much
higher percentage over last year than
the product does a loss.
lowa's Big Crop.
Howard N. Whitney, managing
editor Of the Register and Farmer of
Des Moines, In giving details of Iowa
conditions, states that the total value
OF the field crop in Iowa in 1911 is
$S05 1881 ,O66, as against $243, 116,6S6 In
1910.
The corn crop this year in Iowa is
less than last year, averaging about
$50 100000 bushels, as against 355,.
100000 bushels last year. Notwith-
standing the corn crop Of 1910 exceed.
led this years crop by more than 100,-
600, 900 bushels the price at this time
| Is 55 cents per bushel, as against 81
cents to 38 cents last year. This Axes
the value Of the 1911 corn crop at
$137, 100000. while that Of last year
was $127,622,34O.
The oat crop this year amounted to
116,512,50O bushels as compared to
168. 22s,97O bushels in 1910. The acre.
age this years was 4.66O,5O0 acres
and the average yield was twenty
five bushels. The value of this years
tcrop at present prices is $43,1O9,62
as against 345.421,S 1922 last year.
The winter wheat crop for 1911
lamounted to 4,015,240 bushels, al
against 4,125,82O bushels last year
The acreage was 2OO,762 and the yield
Twenty bushels. The yield is now
worth $3,212,192, as against $3,54s,2O5
In 1910.
Timothy seed this year commands
an unusual price, many farmers hav
ing sold their crop for over S. pei
bushel The yield Of timothy seed
this year Is 1O,41S,5SO bushels and is
therefore worth $1,000, 300. The official
estimate Of the value Of last years
timothy crop is $1,0O0,000.
The fruit crop this year is enormous
being value at $25,0O0,000. Last years
crop was failure and was worth So,
0O0,O0
H. e. Colby, editor OF Kimballs
Dairy Farmer and James Atkinson
editor OF the Iowa Homestead, send re.
ports which correspond to the one sub.
mitted by Mr.. Whitney.
Nebraska Conditions Excellent.
The Nebraska Farmer, through its
editor, L. S. Heron, states that the
prices for farm products this year bid
fair to be such as to give the farmers
|of this state, as whole, more money
to spend than they had last year. Corn
is selling at the present time at from
81 cents to 70 cents in different parts
Of the state, due to the shortage OF
corn throughout. the corn belt in gen.
eral and the increased demand.