The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-08-08
Missouri Crop Report.

Missouri Crop Report.
l. Columbia, NO., Aug. 3.-The fo
It lowing report showing Missouri Gro
v conditions was issued to-day from I'll
v office of T. C. Wilson, secretary {
: the State Board of Agriculture:
e The only complaint, if any, that tn
average Missouri farmer found wit
| the month of July was of a shortag
of help and time in harvesting NOR
wheat, oats and hay than the earl
, season promised; in blowing corn
,, and in attending to much other farr
work crowded in by a season whicl
opened late but tended toward bi,
and busy finish. Nor is activity alon
confined to the fields, from whicl
granaries are being filled and wher'
later may come the corn to Grove
many crib. With garden sass
plentiful to the point of prodigality
and with fruit in abundance, thu
women folks" of the farm have
been busy adding to the largesse O.
the larder, to the long rows of jars
and glasses filled with "jams anc
jells."
At Columbia the highest tempera'
ture for the month was SO; lowest,
60. Rainfall at this section was 1.8S
inches, but more at other points. A
few counties of the north-central,
northwest, southwest and southern.
trail sections were in need of rain al
the close of the month, but conditions
throughout the state are generally
encouraging. Even in the limited
districts where rain is needed no corn
is reported damaged beyond the point
of recovery. Missouri farmers are
just now interested in the erection of
new corn cribs and silos rather than
in boring emergency wells or buying
windmills to meet a water shortage.
Where year ago twenty-five per
cent. of the live stock went to market
at sacrifice because of dry weather,
farmers are to-day looking in vain for
cattle to eat the surplus grass. Such
stock as is going to market is at high
ly satisfactory prices, and the close of
the month sees hogs and cattle selling
higher than for many months, choice
Missouri beeves reaching the record
mark of 1915 per hundredweight.
CORN.-Corn fields, except in
few counties where moisture has
been deficient or where the plant has
been worked on by insect pests, pre-
sent a dark, rich green appearance.
The condition of corn for the state is
84.6; one year ago, 61.2; ten-year av-
erage. 8l.7. Acreage is large, being
about 7,735, 900. Practically none has
been lost by overflows. The crop
has been we'll cultivated.
WHEAT.-The wheat yield for the
state, so far as it is possible to ascer-
tain at this time, is 1877 bushels per
acre, or slightly more than the pre-
liminary estimate of 1874. A few
yields of IS to so bushels are report
ed. Acreage harvested is estimated
at $40, 700, practically Is per cent.
of the 1911 fall seeding having been
plowed up. This would indicate a |
yield of approximately 2O,837, 900
bushels, worth, at the average re-
ported price Of 80 cents per bushel, |
$l8, 545, 900. All of these figures,
though, are subject to final reports.
OATS.-The preliminary estimate
On yield of oats is 80 bushels per acre
being highest where the thrashing
has made its revelations,
IS one correspondent expresses it.
Some reports are of from 60 to rs
bushels per acre. The crop has been
from about 800, 900 acres,
md even at 80 bushels per acre this
indicates yield of $1,000, 900, or g.
)OO, 900 more than the record crop of
$40. Last year Missouri thrashed
tut 9,195, 900 bushels of oats. The
'verage reported price of oats is IS
ents per bushel, indicating value
# about s., $50, 600. Final returns
nay change these figures somewhat.
OTHER CROPS.-Meadows are
urpassing all early expectations.
Preliminary estimates show: Yield
+ timothy hay, LIS tons per acre,
year ago, s; clover, IL, year ago,
2; first cutting of alfalfa, Ia; mixed
ay, Ia; prairie hay, III. Acreage:
l22; clover, "a; alfalfa, 1903;
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