Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-09-10
REPORT VERIFIES
TRADE ESTIMATE
Government Figures Show This
Years Shortage Is 774,-
100000 Bushels.
INCREASE IN WHEAT ONLY
Heavy Decrease Is Indicated in Crops
of Oats, Barley and
Potatoes.

Enormous losses inflicted on the
corn crop through the intense heat
and the unparalleled drought of the
last summer are officially shown in
the governments crop estimates for
September The figures are a remark
ably exact verifcation of the popular
ly accepted trade advices The vast
Importance to the grain and live stock
trade and to the country at large has
led to such close examination previous
| to the issue of the official figures that
the public has been remarkably we'll
| informed.
The government report Of August
showed a loss as compared with the
crop of 1912 of 453,0OO,OOO bushels, but
this loss was swelled by 321 ,000, 900
bushels by yesterdays report, thus
making the shortage as compared with
last year 774,OO0,O00 bushels. Adding
a loss of 100000 tons of hay and the
known shortage in pasturage, mead
ows and fall forage in general, and the
appalling Importance of the situation
begins to be appreciated. Train loads
of cattle have for some time been
pouring into all the markets of the
country or into tho more fortunate
sections where the crop is less a fail
ure than in the drought-scourged re-
gions comprising the greater part of
the corn belt.
SURPLUS STATES CUT TO FOUR.
Nevertheless, the seven so-called
corn surplus states have been reduced
IN nd in
tn northern or less droughty areas are
not as a rule up to ordinary, and from
this they taper off into medium to very
poor crops.
OF the loss of 774,O00,000 bushels in
the total crop 74O,000,OO0 bushels are
in the seven surplus states which i'm
mediately surround Chicago. Oklaho
!. ma has been hard hit, Kansas ap
proacheG a total failure, Nebraska will
raise about half of normal crop, Mis-
souri, not much over One-third, south
ern Iowa and southern Illinois have
suffered severely. Nevertheless, the
two latter states, with Indiana anC
Ohio, remain the only ones of the sever
that can still be claimed as surplus
producers.
92,OCO,OOO BUSHELS PROMISED.
The seven states have this veal
promise of 1892, 100000 bushels
against actual production last year O
32,000,000 bushels. The present
promise for the entire United States
which produces three-fourths of the
r corn of the entire world, is 1851 900,
: 900 bushels, against 1926, 900, 900 bush
r els in 1912.
The shortage in the oats crop il
: 353,000,000 bushels as compared witt
e the yield of last year, the crop prom
: Use now being 1,065, 100000 bus, els
S against 1,41S, 100000 bushels last year
I The shortage in the potato crop i
96,000,000 bushels, the indicated yielt
: being 325,000,000 bushels, against 421
e 100000 bushels for 1912
e There is shortage in barley of Sc
T 100000 bushels, the indicated yield be
o ing 16S,O00,00O bushels, as agains
I 224,000,000 bushels last year.
WHEAT ALONE SHOWS GAIN.
!, The wheat crop alone of the import
ant food crops of the country show
l. a gain over the previous year, entirel
e due to the enormous winter whea
= yield which matured before the lon
y drought. The spring wheat crop i
: S7,000,000 bushels short of last veal
but winter and spring combined max
the greatest crop ever produced in tn
! United States. This total of $4,000
e 900 bushels compares with 100000
o bushels in 1901, hich was the larges
crop ever previously produced Thi
paltry gain of 24,O09 900 bushels whea
over last year. however, looks small
y when compared with the aggdegate los
y of 1,2S0,000000 bushels in corn, oat
c barley and potatoes, leaving out tn
+ huge losses to the hay crop and [
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