The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-19
THIS YEARS CROP
REPORT SHOWING CONDITIONS OF
STAPLE PRODUCTS
corn crop VALUABLE

Department of Agriculture's' EST
mate for Nov. Makes Total Yield
2.4es,o17, 900 Bushels an Increase
of Ninety Million Bushels Over Es-
innate Made in October.
This years corn crop promises 20
be the most valuable this or any 9TH
er nation ever has produced, al.
though the department Of agricul-
lures preliminary estimate Of pro-
duction, issued Monday indicates II
will be more than half a billion
bushels less in size than the record
crop of last year, and the smallest
since 1908. Based on the depart
ment's. figures Of 7o.7 cents pei
bushel, the average farm value OF
November /, the crop as now esti.
mated, is worth s1,741,35S,e1s
while the value of the 1912 record
crop was s1,520,454,000. The pre-
vious most valuable crop was that Of
1909, worth s1,652,S22,000.
The departments preliminary esti'
mate of production Monday increased
by e0,OOO,0O0 bushels the estimate
made in October, and also that made
in September. This was taken to In
dicate that the damage from the very
severe drought is indicated in the fig
ures for Kansas, which show the acre
yield there to have been reduced tt
80 bushels, compared with 23 bush
els last year; in Missouri, where the
yield was It's bushels, compared
with last years 80 bushels, and II
Oklahoma, where it was II bushels
against 1877 last year. In Illinois
the yield was 13 bushels below last
years yield; in Iowa, 8 bushels; IL
Nebraska, 9 bushels; Indiana, 81
bushels and Ohio, So bushels.
| The November report, made ~
from reports Of agents and correspon
dents Of the departments bureau o.
statistics, announced also the pre-
liminary estimate Of the total Pro
duction Of potatoes, sweet potatoes
and tobacco; the yield per acre o.
each; the average farm price on Nov
ember Of the country's principa
crops and the amount Of corn Of tht
1912 crop remaining on farms Nov
ember /.
Corn-Total production, prelimi
narily estimated, 2,46S,017,0oo. com
pared with 3,124,746,00o bushel,
last year. Yield per acre, 20 bushels
compared with 29.2 bushels last year
and 27 bushels, the ten-year average
Average farm price, 7o.7 cents pei
bushel. compared with 5S.4 cents
last year. Quality, s5.S per cent.
compared with the ten-year average
Corn Of 1912 crop remaining or
farms November / was 137,972,00(
bushels, compared with $4,000 bush
els Of the 1911 crop remaining OF
farms November l last year.
Potatoes-Total production, pre-
liminarily estimated, s2s,55o,00f
bushels last year. Yield per acre
Ss.2 bushels, compared with 1884
bushels last year, and ss bushels
the ten-year average yield. Average
farm price, 69.6 cents per bushel
compared with ASS cents last year
Quality, 99.3 per cent, compared
with the ten-year average.
Sweet Potatoes-Total production
preliminarily estimated. 55,760,o0(
bushels, compared with 25,479,00(
bushels last year. Yield per acre, 81
bushels, compared with 95.2 bushel:
last year and 81 bushels the ten-yeal
average yield. Average farm price
- cents per bushel. Quality ss.4
per cent. Of the ten-year average.
Tobacco-Total productions, pre-
liminarily estimated, so3,S75,o0C
pounds last year. Yield, per acre
1855 pounds last year and S2A
pounds, the ten-year average. Quail
ity, 97.4 per cent. Of the ten-yea1
average.
Wheat-Total production, prelimi'
narily estimated, 753,233,ooo bush.
els, compared with 730,267,000
bushels last year. Yield, per acre
1872 bushels, compared with 1873
bushels last year and 14.2 bushels
the ten-year average. Average farm
price IT cents per bushel, compared
with 1913 cents last year. Weight
per measured bushel, 58.6 pounds,
compared with 58.3 pounds last year
and 57.8 lbs, the 10-year average.
Oats-Total production, prelimi-
narily estimated, 1,122,13s,ooo bush
els, compared with 1,418,337,00O
bushels last year. Yield per acre,
2s.3 bushels, compared with 37.4
bushels last year and 1913 bushels,
the ten-year average. Average farm
price 37.e cents per bushel, compar-
ed with 1876 cents last year. Weight
per measured bushel, 32.1 pounds,
compared with 33 pounds last year
and 31.5 pounds the ten year aver
age.
The yield per acre and total pro-
duction Of tobacco and corn in the
following states were:
Tobacco:
Yield Pro-
State. per acre. duct1on.
Pounds.
Virginia ITO 151,22S,00o
North Carolina. $40 1S5,541,000
South Carolina 76o 33,2SS.0Oo
Florida 1000 1000, 900
Corn: Bushels.
Virginia -. $50 51,4So, 900
North Carolina 1875 55,302,000
South Carolina 1875 38,844,00o
Georgia 15.5 63,023,Oo