The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-07
WHEAT YIELD
TO Be GREATER
Crop Expert Predicts More
Than Ever This Year
in Estimate.

Chicago, Aug. 6.-Yields of 1884,
100000 bushels of wheat, $500, 0O0,-
bushels of pats and 14.72,o 900 bales of
cotton are estimated for this season
in the annual crop report prepared
by the Continental and Commercial
National bank The final yield of rye
is figured at 36.S54.000 bushels, barley
at 200,527,000 bushels and hay at &C.,
600 tons.
Wheat. the worlds greatest need"
says the report. has not only been a
good crop, but an exceptional one. The
aggregate yield of 739. 900, 900 bushels
tops last years record of 73O, 0OO, 900
bushels n with 10000, 900 more
bushels in store in elevators. mills
and on farms at the beginning of the
crop season. there is available a larger
supply per capita than at any time in
recent years. There is over and above
the domestic need 10. 900. 900 bushels
and for the second consecutive year
the United States becomes a heavy
exporter of wheat.
Oats Second Domestic.
THE second of the crops that figure
in the domestic use is that of oats.
Last ear this crop reached the I'M
p~recedented figure of 1.415.O0O, 900
bushels. This yea conditions we're
unfavorahle to the fullest possible
yield. so that the total crop does not
twice before did the crop pass the l.
0o0, 100000 mark. so that the yield
is above the average. Iowa was lit
tie affected by the weather conditions,
being practically normal n the state
comes close to raising it's maximum
Of zoe. 600 bushels. Curiously,
right across the Mississippi the ILL.,
nois product is barely above half a
bumper crop. A like variation appears
between Indiana. short, and Ohio.
moderate in yield. In the southwest
the late ripening of oats caused the
yield to fall much below that of wheat
ON a proportionate scale. Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota will produce
big yields, the two latter states proba-
bly, exceeding a year ago. The Da-
kotas suffered from the same causes
that injured the wheat crop.
No Record in Corn.
This years corn crop will not be a
record one. Our correspondents early
in the month before the burning tenn
peratures swept through the south
etition OF last years rop but we
cannot ignore the heavy damage that
has occurred in Nebraska, Kansas.
Oklahoma, Texas and portions of Mis-
souri, and Illinois since that time.
which has cut off at least 400. 100000
bushels from the prospect and reduc-
ed the estimate to $500, 0OO, 900.
These conditions are good through
Northern Indiana. Illinois. practically
ward from Ohio. T he rest of the corn
belt has had little or no rain of i'm
portance this m In Kansas
possibly the smallest yield of years
will be had. August rains can be very
helpful over a large part of the dry
area. but where the high tempera-
lures occurred at the time the pollen
was bursting out of tn top OF the
plant, no recovery is to be expected.
Hay a Rival.
The great rival Of corn in weight
and value is hay and to a large ex-
tent it can take the place Of corn
when there is a shortage Of that
grain. The hay crop has been above
the average. There have been some
losses in the yield in the dry area, but
in the main the crop Is the second
largest on record with a total of &c..
$4,000 tons as against last years
yield OF 72,591,0O0 tons. This large
crop with at least one-third Of last
pair all the breaches that will be
made by a short corr yield.
The hay crop this year is valued or
the farm at a billion dollars.
THE rye crop. a small one in this
country, but n of the most certain
Of all products of the soil. is up to
the previous years record.
Cotton promises at this period to
be much in excess Of last year, and
ranking next to the prodigious yield
of two years ago. The indications are
for 14,700.000 bales. compared with
1900, 900 last year."
Condition Summarized.
The condition Of the crops is sum.
married by sections as follows:
Central West-Average returns only
on a and corr promise average;
wheat exceptionally large: hay fair
Fruits short on account Of dry area
In the Ohio valley.
North Central States-Excellent in
all crops. save lighter spring whea,
yields on the western border. Corn
the most fattering prospect in years;
oats promising o than normal
yield: Potatoes and other vegetables
excellent.
Law men would rather Ara Sou,,