Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-04
CORN CROP OF STATE SUFFERING
BECAUSE OF LACK OF
MOISTURE.
CONDITION OF ENTIRE CROP
81 PER CENT OF AVERAGE
Loss of Four Point. Since July Re.
port Southern Districts Having
Trouble in Obta ming Water For
stock-Returns on Small Grains
Proving Satisfactory.
Special to metropolitan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug T. - The weekly
weather and crop report notes that
quite general showers occurred on
Thursday and Thursday night, but the
amount of rainfall was urevenly dis
tributed In some localities the rain
fall was nil, while in others the
amounts were light to heavy: the
In some localities. in the northern
counties there was sufficient rainfall
10 insure the early corn, but for the
state as a whole, and especially in
the southern districts, com, potatoes
and pastures are needing rain badly
Corn has already suffered consider
able damage in the southern part OF
the state, but the average condition
of the whole crop is only four points
below the July ! estimate, or 81 per
cent.
Much trouble is being experienced
in southern districts in obtaiEing water
for stock and for threshing. Small
streams and many wells are dry.
Threshing is progressing rapidly un-
der favorable conditions. Preliminary
estimates show the average yield of
winter wheat TO be about twenty three
bushels per acre; spring wheat. six
teen; oats, thirty four; barley, TWEEN
ty-seven, and rye, nineteen bushels
per acre. If these estimates are main
tanned by final returns the state will
produce about l75,0o0,000 bushels of
oats; 1650O,oO0 of wheat; 100000 Of
barley and 100000 bushels of rye.
Grape Crop Enormous.
Iowa will have tremendous grape
crop, according to the August fruit
report issued yesterday by Wesley
Greene, state horticulturist. Nothing
has occurred since spring 10 affect the
grape vines, so that now there is a
prospect of ST per cent Of O. full crop.
This maens that Iowa will have more
than it can use and probably more
than it can find q market for outside
the state.
Apples have continued to drop off
in prospects. The summer variety
now promises only IL per cent OF a
full crop. The general condition Of
fruits ls 81 per cent pOlnts oeulud
the 1912 crop.
The August report in detail fol-
lows:
| Summer apples IL per cent: fall
apples. II per cent; winter apples,
| Is per cent; pears. 90 per cent;
American plums, 81 per cent; Euro
pean plums, % per cent; Japanese
plums, 26 per cent; peaches. Al per
cent; grapes, 81 per cent of a full crop.
The average percentage Of the crop is
81. or per cent below the crop of 1912.
The distribution of the crop is as fol-
lows:
Northern district-Summer apples, 5
FER cent; fall apples, per cent; winter
apples, per cent; American plums, 26
per cent.
Central district-Summer apples, 10
per cent: fall apples. IA per cent; win
ter apples, Is per cent; pears, % per
cent; American plums. 35 per cent:
European plums, IA per cent: japanese
| plums, II per cent; peaches, rs per
cent; grapes, 81 per cent.
| Southern district Summer apples,
! 20 per cent; fall apples, 80 per cent:
winter apples % per cent: pears, 8.
per cent: American plums. 81 per cent;
! European plums. A per cent; japanese
plums, 40 per cent; peaches, so per
cent; grapes, 81 per cent.