Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-14
NORTH DAKOTA
LEADS IN CROPS
Crop Average for July Report
Shows Great Gain Over
Other States

WASE1lNGINpN, Aug. l4.-CrOp
conditions In general August ay-
erage for the United States material.
ly better GAS per cent? than on
same date last year, and slightly bet
ter (O.3 per cent? than the average
condition Of recent years. The month
Of July was slightly more favorable
for crops than the average July and
much more favorable than July Of
last year.
The acreage in field crops is about
Ia per cent smaller than last year.
The yield per acre Of winter wheat
IS 97.4 per cent of ten.year aver.
age and OF rye 1887 per cent.
The indications are for a total pro-
ductiOn OF all cereals (125.O70, 900
tOns) of about 1877 per cent more
than last year, OIL per cent more
than in 1910 and 9.S per cent more
than in 1909. Potato prospects are
for about ~ per cent more than last
year, per cent more than in 1910,
but per cent less than in 1909. Hay
prospects are for about one.third
more than last year, and 6 per cent
more than in 1910 and 1909.
The general or composite condition
OF all crops combined on August l,
duly weighted, by states, on the
basis of 100 representing average con-
ditions (for most crops the ten.year
average) is as follows:
Maine 1O4.1, New Hampshire 1898,
Vermont 1863, Massachusetts 1908,
Rhode Island 91.3, Connecticut 94.2,
New York 9S.4, New Jersey 9S.4,
Pennsylvania 101.A. above division
1904.
Delaware 1861, Maryland 1864,
Virginia 1A.S, West Virginia 113.4,
North Carolina 1918, South Carolina
95.2, Georgia S6S, Florida 9S.9, above
division 97.2.
Ohio 95.4, Indiana 1926, Illinois
S5.S. Michigan 94.7, Wisconsin 1927
above division $50.
Minnesota 1913, Iowa 400, Mis-.
souri, 1918, North Dakota 1896
South Dakota 1858, Nebraska 96.1,
Kansas 1888, above division 1862:
Kentucky 1913. Tennessee 900, Ala.
bama 93.7, Mississippi 90.2, Louisiana
9S.3, Texas 1856, Oklahoma 1854, Ar.
kansas 93y9, above division 97.4.
Montana 1O4.5, Wyoming 1909
Colorado 1142, New Mexico 1860,
Arizona 1882, Utah 1O4.3, Nevada
1912, Idaho 1042, Washington 1853
Oregon 1906, California 991, above
division 1861
prices paid to producers of the
United States on August l of 1912
and 1911, respectively, averaged as
follows: Corn l9.o cents, 65.S cents
per bushel; wheat s9.7 cents. S2.7
cents; oats 443 cents, 4O.2 cents;
barley 66.S cents, 1913 cents; rye IT'S
cents, 75.5 cents; buckwheat S3.t
cents, 76O cents; flaxseed 1852 cents
1892 cents; potatoes S6.5 cents
1850 cents; hay $12.9S, $14.67 pei
ton; cotton o cents, 1872 cents per
ID. (the average of prices of above
crops, which represent above three
fourths of the value of all crops, de,
clined 7.6 per cent during July
whereas in July, 1911, they advanced
81 per cent; they averaged on Au
gust l about Oh per cent lower than
on August l last year; on July
they averaged 17.5 per cent higher
than on July l last year,; butter
23.7 cents, 2l.7 cents per h.; chick
ems 11.3 ents, 11.2 cents; eggs ia
cents, 1916 cents per Dozen.
Prices on July Is of 1912 and 1911
respectively, averaged: Hogs 1854
1922 per 100 lbs; beef cattle $5.44
$42S; veal calves $6.33, $5.74; sheer
$4.21, $4.19; lambs $o.73, $5.42; mich
cows $451.4 Al, $4244 each; horses
$142, 1893; milk 22.2 cents, 20.9 cents
per gallon; apples cents, IS cents
per bushel; beans STAT, 1928; sweet
potatoes N.13, $1.O4; onions STA
$l.22, clover seed 1854, 1888; tim
othy seed 1886, $5.4S; honey, comb
1879 cents, 49,. cents per h.; wool
unwashed, 1879 cents, 15.4 cents; pea
nuts 49, cents, so cents; cabbage
1929, $2.93 per 100 lbs; broom corn
$S5, $68 per ton; cotton seed $19.04,
$22.70; bran $2S.41, $3.50.