Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-13
DAKOTA
near The TOP
Department Of Agriculture
Finds our State Leading In
Crop Condition
Crops This Year Generally
Are Much More Favorable
Than Previous Years

WASHINGTON, July 13.-Crop con-
ditions in general on July 1 average
for the United States materially sbet-
ter $50 per cent? than on same date
last year, but somewhat lower az
per cent? than the average condition
of recent years. The month Of June
was slightly less favorable for crops
than the average June but much more
favorable than June of last year.
The aggregate area of the import
ant crops-corn, wheat, oats, barley,
potatoes. tobacco, flax, rice and cot
ton-in 1912, according to preliminary
estimates is 241, 155, 900 acres, which
is is per cent less than the estimat.
ed area of the same crops in 1911,
but 10 per cent greater than in 1910
and SO per cent greater than in 1909.
July I compared with their average
condition (not normal) on July l of
recent years was as follows:
Peaches 1893, apples 1859, straw
berries (productioni 111.6, kafir corn
1850, alfalfa 1918, hops 1911, pears
1864; millet 1863, oats 1862, grapes
1861, broom corn 104.9, nay Gall
kinds) 104.7, spring wheat 104.3, lima
beans 104.1, tomatoes 1899, tobacco
1887, barley 1927, sorghum 1923, cab
bage 1923, flax 1922, cantaloupes
1920, hemp 1919, watermelons 1919,
onions 1N1.6, peanuts 1905, sugar
beets 1905.
Cotton 99.6, potatoes 99.6. sweet po-
tatoes 1914, rye 98.1, timothy $50, rice
97.S, beans dry 97.8, clover hay 97.1,
oranges 96.S, raspberries 96.5, corn
96.3, pasture 94.S, winter wheat ola,
lemons OIL, b~lackberries 90.4, sugar
cane 1913.
The general or composite condition
of all crops combined on July I, duly
weighted, by States, on the basis of
100 representing average conditions
(for most crops the ten-year average)
is as follows:
Maine 1927, New Hampshire 104.5,
Vermont 1924, Massachusetts 1876,
Rhode Island 93.9, Connecticut 97.9,
New York $50, New Jersey 91.9, Penn
~sylvania 9S.1, above division 96.S.
Delaware 77.6, Maryland 1877, Vir-
ginia 1884, West Virginia 1850, North
Carolina 1918, South Carolina 0.7,
Georgia 9O.4, Florida 96.7, above divi-
sion 97.9.
Ohio 90.5, Indiana 1872, Illinois 91.2,
Michigan 1913, Wisconsin 96.7, above
division 91.S.
Minnesota 1923, Iowa ee.6, Missouri
1901, North Dakota 1868, South Dako-
ia 9e.7, Nebraska s6.4, Kansas 1869,
above division lis.
Kentucky 98.9, Tennessee 1913, Ala
bama 96.1, Mississippi 95.1, Louisia-
ma 93.7, Texas 1921, Oklahoma 1921,
Arkansas 97.4, above division 1924.
Montana 1872, Wyoming 104.7, Col
orado 1890, New Mexico 1893, Arizo-
ma 1869, Utah 104.3, Nevada 1919,
Idaho loaf, Washington 1856, Oregon
1875, California 1914. above division
1O4.O.
Prices paid to producers of the Unit
ed States on July l of 1912 and 191,
respectively, averaged as follows:
Corn 81 cts, 600 cts. per bushel;
wheat $50 cts, 94.3 cts; oats 52.5
cts, 37.5 cts; barley S1.9 cts, 7O.1
cts; rye 1916. cts, 76.9 cts; buck
wheat 86.2 cts, 72.4 cts; flaxseed
1884 cts, 205.6 cts; potatoes 1886
cas-, 96.3 cts; hay 1857, $3.50 per
ton; cotton 11.2 cts, IA cts. per lb,
(the average of prices of above crops,
which represent about th%ree-fourths
of the. value of all crops, declined 49,
per cent during June, whereas in
June, 1911, they advanced 81 per
cent; they averaged on July l about
IT'S per cent higher than on July last
year,; butter 23.4 cts, 20.4 cts. per
lb.; chickens 40 cts, 11.2 cts; eggs
1877 cts, 14.2 cts. per dozen.
Prices on June Is of 1912 and 1911,
respectively, averaged: Hogs $685.,
100 per 100 lbs; beef cattle 1923,