Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-08-18
EsIINATEsON CROPS.
REPORTING BOARD OF AGRicUL.
TURAL. DEPARTMENT GIVES
DATA FOR JULY.
CORN CONDITION VERY GOOD
Secretary Houston Declares That Gen-
eral Prospects for Various Grains
Have Declined Neutrality-suspicious.
cy Of Rainfall Blamed.

Washington, Aug. 10.-The crop re-
porting beard, department of agrscul.
ture, estimated the condition and
yields of the principal crops on Au-
gust l, as follows:
Winter wheat, conditions August l.:
Yield per acre, 1911 bushels; fve-year
average. 1875 bushels; total produc-
ton, 675.00O,000 bushels; July fore
cast, 6s3.O00,0Oo bushels; five-year av-
erage, 523 100000 bushels.
Spring wheat: August 1, 75.5; last
year, 74.4; July 1, 1914, 92.1; yield per
acre. 49, bushels; f1ve-year avarage,
1873 bushels; total produton. 235,0OO,-
900 bushels; July forecast, 274,00a,0O
bushels; 1918 final. 24O,0OO.0Oo busS-
els; f1ve-year average. 245,O00,0oo
bushels
All wheat: Yield per acre. I'll bush
els; five-year average, 14.7 bushels;
total production, 991 100000; July 4
forecast. 927 200 bushels; 1913
final, 763,00O,OO0 bushels; average,
6S6,O00,000 bushels; price August 1,
76.5 cents; 1914, I'll cents.
Corn: Condition, August 1. 74.S;
1918, 75.S; July l, 1914, SIS; yield
per acre, 25.1 bushels; fve-year aver
age, 25.9 bushels; total production,
1854. 000,o COO bushels; July forecast. n
917,000,00l bushels; 1918 final, 2,447,-
100000 bushels; average, 2.7OS,O0o,-
600 bushels; price August 1. 1913
cents; 1918, 65.4 cents.
Oats: Condition August 1, 1874; 1913,
1873; July 1, 1914, S4.5; yield per
acre, 80 bushels; average, 3O.6 bush.
els; total production, 1,153,OOO, 900
bushels; July forecast. 100000, 1000;
1913 final, 1,122. 100000 bushels; aver
age, 1,131,060,060 bushels; price Au-
gust 1. 367 cents; 1913. 97.6 cents.
Barley: Condition August /, S5.5;
1913, 74,9; July /. 1914, 92.6; yield per
acre, 25.9 bushels; average August,
24.3; total production, 209,OOO,00O
bushels; July forecast. 211,000,OoO
bushels; 1913 final. 17s,O0O000 bush
els; average, 1S2,00O,OoO bushels;
price August 1, 45.1 cents; 1913, SCI
cents.
Rye: Yield per acre, 1873 bushels;
average, 16.1 bushels; total produc-
ton, 100000 bushels; 1913 final, Al.
100000 bushels; average, 35,00o,OOo
bushels; price August l. 81 cents;
1913, co., cents.
The acreage Of all the crops Eek
Guiding apples) total 3O1. 128,000 acres.
Supplementing the crop report, Sec
rotary OF Agriculture Houston said:
THE month of July was unfavorable
for crops, as the result Of which gen.
eral prospects have declined material
ly. Compared with July /. the August
l forecast of corn shows a reduction
of 2S3,000,000 bushels, or 81 per cent;
wheat, 100000 bushels, or 1t per
cent: oats, 100000 bushels, or 81
per cent; barley, 100000 bushels, or
3.8 per cent. The principal cause of
the lower prospects is the deficiency
Of rainfall over the greater part of the
agricultural sections of the United
States and the prevalence of black
rust in spring wheat.
Offsetting these decreases the sec
rotary called attention to a forecasted
Increase of 100000 bushels, or rs
per cent, In potatoes, and 1000, 900
bushels, or per cent, in sweet pota-
toes. and s4,000,000 pounds, or AS per
cent, in tobacco.