Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-12-05

Board of Agriculture Estimates
Show Increasing Supplies.
OATS YIELD ~ BUSHELS
Principal Rye Producing Counties
Average 10 to IL Bushels an Acre,
While General Average Is % Ru-
shels-Quaity Above Average.

While General Average Is ~ Bu-
shels-QuaiY Above Average.
Madison.-The final state crop re
port for the year Just issued by the
Wisconsin state board of agriculture
shows general crop conditions in
Wisconsin to be ahead of last year,
The average yield Of wheat for the
state is 203 bushels. the yield per
4cre being greater in the counties
showing the largest acreage OF this
cereal. viz: Vernon county, 80 bush
els; TrempeaIeau, so bushels; Pierce,
% bushels; Calumet, % bushels;
Manitowoc, % bushels.
This condition is reversed in the
report on the yield Of rye. While
the general average throughout the
state shows a production of 20 bush
els, the principal rye producing cOun-
ties Of the state show averages Of
from 10 to y bushels per acre.
The average yield, per acre, OF bar
ley for the entire state is 30.7 bush
els, Ozaukee county showing 35
bushels, Fond du Lac IS bushels,
Walworth 33 bushels, Manitowoc 80
bushels, Dane so bushels, Dodge IS
bushels, Columbia % bushels, Wash
ingtOn % bushels, Trempealeau 80
bushels, Buffalo % bushels.
The average yield of oats, for the
entire state, is AZ bushels per acre,
the counties showing the largest
acreage reporting as follows: Dane
SO bushels, Dodge As bushels, Fond
du Lac So bushels, Trempealeau IS
bushels, Sank IS bushels, Dunn 35
bushels, Sheboygan 60 bushels, Buff
falo 4 0 bushels
The yield per acre of corn (shell-
ed, in the southern division of the
state shows an average of SO bush
els; the central division the same
amount; while the northern division
reports 80 bushels per acre. The
counties showing the largest acreage
of corn planted report as follows:
Lane 81 bushels, Rock 80 bushels,
Grant 80 bushels, WalWorth As bush
els, La Fayette 40 bushels, Green 50
bushels, Columbia 40 bushels, Dodge
40 bushels, Fond du Lac 40 bushels.
The reported amount of the 1911
corn crop still in the hands of the
farmers is as follows: Northern divt-
sion, 81 per cent; central division, "A
per cent; southern division, 10 per
cent.
The average yield of buckwheat
for the state is 1913 bushels per acre;
the principal producing centers show
ing from Is to IS bushels.
The fax producing centers show
an average yield of Is bushels of
fax seed to the acre; the average
yield Of clover seed is 21a bushels
to the acre; timothy seed, 6 y bush
els; beans, IA bushels; peas, %
bushels; cabbage, 10 tons per acre;
sugar beets, 10 tons; tame hay, 2
tons.
the average production and condi-
ton of cranberries in 1912 is above
normal, yield and condition being re
ported at los per cent.
The average yield of potatoes for
the entire state is placed at $50 bush
els per acre. The counties showing
the largest acreage report a much
lighter yielu. Portage county, with
a reported acreage of 10000 acres,
shows an average of so bushels;
Waupaca and Waushara with 1000
and $4,000 acres respectively, give
an average of 70 bushels for the first
named county, and so bushels in the
latter. Several of the counties from
5000 to 1000 aires of the tubers re-
port a yield of from 100 to 200
bushels to the acre.
The yield Of tobacco in the princi-
pal tobacco producing counties in the
state is as follows: Dane, 1888
pounds per acre; Vernon, 1850
pounds; Rock, 100 pounds; Colum-
bia, 1,0Oe pounds; Crawford, 1900
pounds.
The quality of farm products, gen
orally, is above the average, though
a heavy frost early in the fall did
considerable &amage to corn in some
localities. TIE percentage of total
acreage of corr planted and cut for
siIage in 1912 shows an increase Of
Z per cent over that planted in 1911.
The percentage of cattle being fed
for market, as compared with the
last fve-year period, is 80 per cent;
swine, SO per cent; sheep, IS per
cent.
The following counties have re-
ported from to 5 per cent losses
from hog cholera: Dane Columbia,
Grant, Lafayette, Waukesha, Winnie
Ashland.