Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-04
ENORMOUS
Iowa Farms will Yield $252, 900, 900
This Year.
CORN CROP ALONE s171,e1s,soo.
Enormous Yield Of Iowa Farms In
1912 Will Keep Prosper
ity at Home.

Corn ...... :. $171,613,S90.00 90
Oats ......... -. .59,713,2S0.OO
Wheat ......... :. 1905, ,454.OO
Barley ........... 3,O75,16S.0O
Rye. .............. 650.0OS.S0
TOM .s251.s17,sOo
If weaX. : conditions continue as
favorable aSs. ey are now, and mark
.et prices do NJ yary too widely from
those quoted AA ,sent, Iowa's main
crops being harNsJ;1 this year will
increase the wealk the state by
a sum somewhere h >e neighbor-
hood of s251,S17. 7.SO0.S0. This es-
innate is secured from figures given
in a recent government report,
which shows the total number Of
acres in Iowa, devoted to the raising
of each crop and from an estimate of
Doctor Chapel and others on the
probable yield per acre.
Iowa has this year corn crop Of
9,080,1OO acres with probale yield
of thirty-five bushels per acre. If the
price does not fall below fifty-four
cents per bushel as now predicted
the farmers of Iowa will receive the
magnificent sum of $171,613,S9O for
their corn crop alone. An oats crop
of 4,665,10 acres is expected to yield
forty bushels an acre or a total of
86,604,000 bushels, which at thir-
ty-two cents a bushel will be worth
$59,713,2S0.
The total acreage of spring and
winter wheat is S40,360, which will
probably yield 17.462.450 bushels,
and bring a return of $16,065,454 in
money. The barley yield will be
about 9,437.920 bushels, which at
forty cents bushel will add $3,775,-
16S to the general crop returns. The
42,970 acres Of rye will probably pro-
duce about 902,79O bushels. worth
approximately s650,00s.S0.
Many of the figures used in the
foregoing estimates are necessarily
arbitrary. The uncertainty Of the
market makes it particularly diff
cult to forecast accurately the actual
return which the crops will bring to
the farmer. With the wheat, oats,
rye and barley crops, however, the
estimates are probably more or less
accurate. as these crops are already
harvested and the yield known with
fair definiteness. Prevailing market
prices were used In the computations
of the value of these crops and they
would bring the amount quoted II
they were marketed at once.
The only crops whose value can
be guessed at in a rough way are po-
tatoes and corn. With the present
favorable weather continuing it is
likely that both crops will be much
heavier than usual. The yield of corn
alone should be sufficient to notably
increase the wealth of farmers in the
state. The foregoing estimate on
the corn crop is low, If anything, for
the yield per acre used in the COM
putation was only thirty-five bushels
which will undoubtedly prove too
low IL all conditions continue as now,
THE yield of Iowa crops will prob
ably be the largest the state has ev-
er known" said Henry G. Wallace OF
Wallace's Farmer. II recently trav-
eled north through the state to ALA
makee county, east to Clinton and
then through northern Illinois and
southern Wisconsin. Neither Of these
two states has anything to compare
with our bumper crops"
George M. Chapel, weather bur,
eau director for Iowa, refused to at.
tempt an estimate of the total value
of this years crops in Iowa, stating
that such an estimate could not be
made with any scientific certainty
He stated. however. that the winter
wheat and rye crops had exceeded
all past records for the state and
that spring wheat, oats and barley
had been exceeded only once during
the last twenty-five years.
George A. Wells. secretary Of the
Western Grain Dealers association
stated that the oats crop throughout
the central west was the greatest OF
record and predicted heavy yields II
all the grains Of the state. He sug
gested that continued good weather
would make the outlook for the corr
crop even more favorable than 1t now
lis.
| With many of the crops already
lout of the way and everything look
|dng toward unusual yields In thos'
which remain to be harvested, 1t Il
almost certain that the wealth of 10
Iva from her crops will this fall b.
greater than 1t has ever been before