The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-01
COTTON CROP
FAR ABOVE
AN AVERAGE
immense Increase In Forage
Crops Acreage Shown BY
Agricultural Bulletin

According 10 the monthly crop
bulletin OF the Oklahoma board Of
agriculture issued this week, Olsia
homa win have slightly more than
one fourth oi i normal corn crop
Ithis year. but has prospects for a
cotton crop far above the average. !.
''Fhe bulletin shows an immense III
crease JIM The acreage OF forage crops
most Of them plontod IN abandoned
corn fields since the recent rains
with an excellent growing conditiol
but indicates that alfalfa suffered
considerable damage as q result or
the dry weather
Corn, of course, was hit harder by
Che drouth, than any other trop, and
was damaged ~ per cent bccording
20 the bulletin leaving its present.
growing condition but 2S Per cent,
as compared with d reported condi
ltionsAast month at 500 per cent,
which was conceded to be too high at.
That time The best corn It's iii the.
extreme northwest and the extreme.
northeast. In the northwestern
counties, Eimarfon shows 80 per
cert Roger Mills. 81, Alfalfa SIS,
Harper Ca, Woods, 65: ANA Wood
ward, 59g II fIiles III slhe i grtheast Det
aware county reports rs per cent Of
normal corn crop and ottawa
county 20 per cents
The cotton condition is reported
at S7 percent, an increase of ST. per
cent over last month, when TX was
listed at TS.9.
The abandoneu acreage is only 1
per cent, which is considerably less
than the increase over last years
acreage, so that the acreage matured
this year Is practically certain TO
be the largest in the history of the
state, Harmon county, which Is one
of the birg cotton growing counties
of the big cotton growing counties
E125 per cent custer and Mcintosh
are i10, Roger Mills ,f07 Seminole
l05, Rogers, l04, while Adair, Alfalfa
l1llis, Hughes, Johnston. McCIain.
lPushmataha, Washita aud Woodward
all report the cotton condition at
100 per cent or better. and ten other
mfg cotton counties are reported at
80 per cent or better
The corn condition Is reported at
~ per cent against 67.3 q mouth ago
2l per cent Of this years crop having
been planted on sod
Forage crops all SHOW up well
| Eowpeas show an increase In acre
| age OF IA per cent and S5 per cent
condition, kaflr corn, 53 per cent III
creased acreage and IS per cent the
condition. milo maize, AZ per cent
Increased acreage ana sc per cent
condition
I The growing condition OF alfalfa
IS 6S per cent compared win sos a
opth ago, but 80 per cent OF the
alfalfa sown last spring is reported
as abandoned on account OF the dry
weather The average. yield of hay
Iper acre SO far has been one ton.
and ono and one half tons per acre
so far has been one ton, and one
land one half tons per acre are yet to
De cat The average price received
Tor alfalfa hay has been St4 per ton
which Will bring the total yalne of
the crop up to a very good figure
The yield Of hay from native mead
ows has averaged only half ton to
the acre
That the wheat acreage for 1912
win moi be decreased as greatly as
might have been expected after the
bad results this year. Is shown bv
the fact that fan p,owing FOR wheat
is already 81 per cent of that report
ed az the same time last year.