The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-10
Crop Estimate for August Made
Public by Department of
Agriculture.
ENTIRE COUNTRY HAS
SUFFERED FROM DR0UTH
While the Yield Per Acre Will
Be Short, Total Production
Will Not Be Small.

WASHINGTON, Aug. "a tremendous
decline In the condition Of crops generally
throughout the country and traces'ole to
drought and intense heat. occurred during
last month as indicated by official fig
urcs and estimatos made today in the
monthly crop report OF the department
o. agriculture The report today is the
worst. ns 10 general crop conditions. that
the department has issued for any single
month since 1901. The area most seri-
ously affected extends from New York
md Pennsylvania westward to the Rocky
mountains, embracing all the great corn,
wheat and hay-producing states In the
country.
In the southern states, with the excep-
tiou OF Virginia and North Carolina, am :
pie rains served to maintain generallE
thus far continue to be favorable, Con-
dItions In the northwest are regarded as
excellent although during July that ter
ritory suffered from a brief but exces-
sively hot period,
General Slump.
The figures Of today's report indicate
material slump In the prospects OF al
crops. Corn. which at this season Is
the most important, declined during the
month from a condition OF about o per
cent below the average. as Indicated by
the July report. TO nearly l5 per cent be,
low the average, In some states IT feit
does not indicate, however. that the crop
Will not be large because the acreage OF
corn this year is exceptionally heavy.
The condition Of the crop at III: tbs TN tine
in any year since 1901, although the In
dicated total production has been ex-
ceeded in only Ave years In the history
the deterioration IN the crop was checked
somewhat by rains during the latter part
Of July. Experts incline to the opinion
l&A f,,-A y iyr,r, we'd
by the generous rains Of the last week.
July Bad Month.
The weather during July caused a fall
I'm the condition OF cUrn. which indicates
a loss OF 336. 900 bushels from the est-
mated production OF the previous month.
month ago OF ID per cent below the aver
age TO approximately 81 per cent below
the average. indicating a loss of about
35.2S6 900 bushels. The indications Of the
lowest since 1904.
The oats crop is very short. according
to the ,hsTres Of today's report It has
seven times in the lat ten years. The
crop OF hay probably will lie the smallest
IN ffteen years. The total yield Of Po-
years crop only twice IN, the last ten
years. II Is regarded as likely. however.
that the late planted crop. on account
estimated prod1ction. The condition Ito this this
month indicates loss of about 36
64S.000 bushels from last months est-
mated yield,
Tobacco Estimate Reduced
Conditions in the tobacco growing states
during July were such as to reduce the
estimated total yield OF last month by
almost 2i.0oo.oo0 pounds.
While the crops In many Instances prob
ably Will be short in the yield per acre,
yet In total production they viii not be
small, as shown by the following esti-
mates OF the Yields Of the standard crops;
Corn, $50. .221 900 bushels, winter
wheat: 455. $4,000 bushels: spring wheat.
2o9 $4,000 bushels: oats. s1I.s00. 900 BUSH
els; barley. 1870 S52, 900 bushels potatoes.
ss.sS3.000 bushels; tobacco. 500 5SS. 600
pounds, and hay 49 l29 900 tons