The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-08-13
WHEAT CROPS PUT
At 99l,000,000
Board of Agricultural Department
Gives Out Report.
CORN CONDITION VERY GOOD
Secretary Houston Declares That GEN
eral Prospects for Various Grains
Have Declined Materially
Seant Rainfall Blamed.

Washington, Aug. 10.-The crop re.
porting board. department of agricul
ture, estimated the condition and
yields Of the principal crops on August
l, as follows:
Winter wheat, condition August 1:
Yield per acre. 1911 bushels: five-year
average. 1876 bushels: total produc-
ton. SIS, 900, 900 bushels; July forecast,
693,000,O00 bushels; five-year average,
523,0OO,000 bushels.
Spring wheat: August 1, 1855; last
year, al; July /, 1914. cal; yield per
acre, 1871 bushels; f1ve-year average.
1873 bushels; total production, 235. 000.-
600 bushels; July forecast, 274,00O,0O0
bushels; 1913 final. 240,00O,0oO bush
els: five-year average, 245.000,O00
bushels.
All wheat: Yield per acre, III bush.
els; fiveyear average, 14:7 bushels;
total production. 99l.000,000; July
forecast, 92700OOOO bushels; 1913
final. 763.000.000 bushels; average.
6S6O00,O00 bushels: price August l.
Corn: Condition August /, TAB;
1918, 1858; July /, 1914. S5.S. yield
per acre. 25.l bushels; five-year aver
age, 25S bushels; total production.
1884. 100000 bushels; July forecast, O.
917,0O0,0O0 bushels; 1913 final 2,447.-
100000 bushels; average, 2,70S,00O,-
600 bushels; price August 1858 cents;
1913, 65.4 cents.
Oats: Condition August /, 1914; 1913.
1873; July /. 1914. S4.5: yield per
acre. 30 bushels; average, 30,6 bush
els; total production. 1,153,000.00
bushels July forecast, 1897 100000;
1913 final 1,l22OOO,OoO bushels; aver.
age, 1871, 100000 bushels; price Au-
gust /. 367 cents; 1918. 376 cents.
Barley: Condition August !, S5.3;
1913, 74.9; July /. 1914. 92.s; yield per
acre. 25,9 bushels: average August.
24.3; total production. 203,0OO.O00
bushels; July forecast. 21l,000,000
bushels; 1913 final, 17s.000,000 BUSH
els; average. 1S2.000,000 bushels;
price August /. Ash cents; 1913. 500
cents.
Rye: Yield per acre, 16.S bushels:
average, 16.l bushels total production.
100000 bushels 1913 final, 41,000,-
600 bushels; average, 100000 bush
els; price August |. 81 cents; 1918.
607 cents
The acreages Of all the crops Eek.
GLIDING apples) total 301, 12S,000 acres.
compared with 00.305.O00 in 1918
experimenting 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 Au-
gust l forecast OF corn shows re-
duction of 2S3,0OO,0O0 bushels, or 81
per cent; wheat, 100000 bushels, or
| II per cent: oats, 100000 bushels.
or 81 per cent; barley, 100000 bush
| els. or 3,S 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 CT 100000 bushels, or 2.5
per cent In potatoes, and 1000. 1000
| bushels, or 2 per cent, In sweet pota.
toes, and 100000 pounds, or AS per
cent, In tobacco.