The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1914-06-26
|lkAuRY WHEAT CROP
] WILL APPROXIMATE
4 MILLION BUSHELS
THAT IS THE CONSERVATIVE Es,
TlMATE OF THOSE FAMIL.
3 lar WITH CONDITIONS.
|sOnE SPLENDID YIELDS MADE
Demand for Sacks Like That {, Bind
er Twine, ls Almost Without Parel-
lei and Already There Is a Search
~ and Orders Are Rushed.

That Maury county's 1914 wheat
crop will approximate million bush
els is the conservative estimate oi
those who have made careful inves
tigation of conditions now that the
harvest Is over Wheat cutting will
end IN the county by tomorrow night
at the latest and the longest harvest
lprobably. that the couny has Fever
known, lasting about three weeks
will pass into history.
Experienced wheat buyers, mill
men, binder twine dealers and Others
who have made a careful inspection
lof the crop conditions and who have
received reports from the crops that
have been threshed agree that the
countys wheat yield this good year
will set new record. No estimate
from those at all conversant with the
situation falls below 100000 bushels
and may 60 above the million mark
| 1t is believed that the crop will ap.
proximate that figure.
While anything like an accurate
account to the pound ID impossible II
|, is, known that not less than 100000
pounds of binder twine has been used
in the harvest in the county this
year. Three of the largest dealers
lin Columbia have sold an aggregate
Iof 125,0Oo pounds. Every country
store in the county. several other
smaller dealers In Columbia, the
stores at Spring Hill, Mt. Pleasant
and Culleoka, have sold enormously,
And It Is known that number Of the
largest growers Of the county did not
buy their twine from Maury county
dealers. Hence an estimate OF 206,.
900 pounds is very conservative
one. h
It is probable that from three
fourths to four-fifths of the binder
twine was used for the wheat crop,
making more than 10000 pounds Of
twine used in saving Maury county's
magnificent wheat yield. The old es-
innate Of ten bushels to the pound
of twine will not hold good this year
because of the weight of the straw.
This estimate has therefore been re-
duced thirty per cent, which would
still leave a yield in excess Of one
million bushels.
One 0f the veteran mill men Of the
the county declares his faith in CROP
mot far, If any, short OF million
bushels. This would be one-eighth
or twelve per cent Of the average
yield for Tennessee for several years
|past. This mill man stated that the
demand for sacks had been unprece-
dented in his experience; that al,
ready he had received requests for
twice as many sacks as he did last
year. And there is a sack famine
just as there was twine famine.
This mill proprietor has wired a dis
tress call to points West and South
to rush sacks at once.
It is also stated that while some OF
the wheat growers have been a little
disappointed in their yields, others
have made more than they expected.
One prominent grower in the south
Iern section OF the county had in forty
i've acres and he threshed from It an
average Of more than thirty-one
bushels to the acre and about half
Of his field was stalk land. In fact
It is generally conceded that the stalk
land will make above the average
yield due to the drouth Of last year.
Little corn. was made and the wheat
had fresh and not exhausted soil in
which to grow.
While the price Of wheat is disap-
pointing, even at seventy-nve cents
the crop will be much more valuable
this year than 1t was at 81 bushel.
The increased yield win largely more
than Offset the falling OF in price.