The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-10
WHEAT is BUMPER:
SHORTAGE IN CORN
Government Crop Report Shows
Drought Has Had Cen
eral Effect.
TEXAS FARES VERY WELL
She Holds Her Own In Corn,
While Other Western States
Fare Rather Badly.
TEXAS FARES VERY WELL

Washington, September a.-An enor-
NOUS loss In the prospective produc-
| ton of corn and Indications OF the
| biggest wheat crop over produced were
features of tho government September
, crop report issued this afternoon.
Hot weather and drought in a num-
Der of tho principal corn growing
States during the month ending Sep
tember 1 caused deterioration of
corn, which experts calculate has re-
suited In tho loss Of 321, OOO, 900 bushels,
reducing the corn crop estimates to
.S51,00o.oo0 bushels. Tho destructive
crop weather caused a loss OF about
300, 0o0,0 bushels during July. and the
August loss brought tho total up to
621.ooo.ooo bushels since the first esti-
mates OF corn crop prospect were
made by the government
Texas, alone OF the great corn
States. held her own during August.
Nebraska was hardest hit, THE deterio-
ration there during the month amount
ing to 80 per cent, bringing the condi-
ton OF the crop to 81 per cent OF a
normal The loss in Missouri was 90
per cent, the crop being al per cent
or a normal
Kansas reported a condition Of 10
per cent of a normal, the lowest ever
recorded, and a loss OF 20 per cent
greatest acreage of any State planted
to corn, reported n condition OF SO
per cent. n loss. OF 10 per cent: Iowa
reported rs per cent, loss of per
cent; oklahoma, 80 per cent, a loss of
. per cent
Rig Wheat Crop.
Never before in the history of the
country has there been such n bounti-
full wheat harvest as has been gath
~, ;, MA II
pally to the bumper crop of winter
wheat. To- days government esu-
mate OF spring wheat showed increased
prospects for that crop, making the
total production 2i3,000,001 bushels, or
an increase OF 4.2 per cent over the
August estimate. This increase brought
the estimate of the total crop of the
country to 754.00o.0oO bushels, or e.000.-
geo bushels more than the great record
crop of 1901
Oats prospects, too, showed an in
crease of 81 per cent. rs n result OF
the conditions existing during August.
and the crop now is estimated at
1866. 100000 bushels, or 100000
bushels more than 'predicte IN Au-
gust. Weather conditions during Au-
gust caused deterioration. which is
estimated to have resulted in the loss
OF 10000 900 bushels of potatoes. 35,-
tons OF hay. Barley. FAX and rice seem
TO nave escaped damaging weather.
the prospects during August having
remained unchanged
Little Relief Is Felt.
Little relief from the continued heat
and drought Is placed out by the
Weather Bureau. which to-day reported
that tho week since the crop report
was taken was generally one of the
l. tn,
ing States, tha. little beneficial rain
had fallen, and that the severe drought
continued very general.
The condition OF corn on September
in Virginia was SIS, North Carolina
s.. and in South Carolina Sc.
Crop Report.
The crop report issued to-day an
nounccd the following:
Cor.-condition, 65.l per cent of q
normal; indicated yield. go bushels
per acre: estimated total production
! 2,35l 100000 bushels.
Spring wheat-condition. Tb.3; yield
1870; production. 243.o0o,0oo.
| Oats-condition 74.O; yield, as pro-
duction, l,066.000,o00.
| Barley-condition, 1874; yield, 23.2
| production, l6S.0oo,oO0.
/ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 1874; yield
/ 1872: production. 100000.
| White characterization, 60
yield. sS1; production, 325,00o,0O0
/ Tobacco-condlt!on, 745; yield. 1924
/ pounds; production. s6l,000,000 pounds
Flax-condition 40; yield. S.4; pro-
duo,ion. 2O.O0O,pO0.
I Ricc-condition, $50; yield. 32.s; pro-
duction. 27.ooo,Oo0.
OVERWHELMINGLY estimate OF pro-
duction. 100000 tons; quality 91.7
Approximation AZ.