Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-11-19
GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES

| WnllS the quantity VI Soi IL anu WhSot
produced in this country was large,
the quality is far below standard. 1t
says:
Corn-The estimated yield per
acre and total production are some
what greater than forecast from the
| October / condition report. The es-
timated grand total of 091,000,000
bushels approaches within $4,000
| 600 bushels of the record crop of
I1912, though the estimated yield per
acre of 1913 bushels has been three
times surpassed in the last 10 years.
The yield in the northern portions
| of the corn belt was seriously re-
| duced by frost damage. a large
proportion of the corn throughout
| Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, North and South Dakota, Ne
| braska, and Montana, failed to ma
ture, being in the dough or milk, or
at even less mature stages at the
time of killing frost. Such corn,
even where sufficiently advanced to
have distinct feeding value, is very
chaffy, and the yield in weighed
bushels falls far below it's early
promise. The quality in states where
the proportion of the crop injured
by frost is high ranges generally be-
hn in
remainder of the corn belt is gener-
ally fair and in most places better
than last year. The average for the
United States, 77.2 per cent, is the
lowest since 1901.
Weights of Grains
The record production of small
grains this season was generally of a
plump, heavy berry. The continued
rains throughout considerable por-
tion of the winter wheat belt at har-
vest and during the early period of
threshing resulted in considerable
deterioration, to the extent that an
unknown but material percentage of
the wheat was so injured as to be-
come unsuitable for milling and will
have to be used for stock feed. The
average weight of winter wheat, as
reported, is 578 pounds, the lowest
since 1905, being lowest in the main
winter wheat belt of the central Mis-
sissippi valley states. The quality of
spring wheat in the northern Sec
tions of the belt was very good, but
only average in Nebraska, Iowa,
South Dakota and southern Mime
sofa. The weight per bushel, $751;
pounds, is the highest since 1905, be-
ing particularly high compared with
the usual figure in Wisconsin, North
Dakota, and part of Minnesota Oats
suffered severe damage from excess
sive rain at time of harvest, in the |
commercially important states of |
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, |
and Kansas, and somewhat less in |
jury in Iowa and Missouri, but were |
exceptionally good in the states of |
Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Da-
kotas, though somewhat discolored |
by rain in Wisconsin and South Da-
kota. Taking the country as whole, |
oats equal exactly the 10-year aver
age in quality. In weight, 33 pounds |
per bushel oats are equaled during |
the past IS years only by the crop |
of 1912, the unusual weight being |
most marked in the northern tier of |
the north central states. Barley, av-
eraging 47,4 pounds, is about one
pound heavier than usual.
Potatoes
The estimates of potato yield |
show a decline of 2.3 bushels per
acre from the promise of a month |
ago. The estimated yield of $50
bushels indicates a total crop of
359, 100000 bushels. 100000 900
bushels less than the large crop of
last year, and 100000 bushels
creator tnan the 5-year average, The
heavy damage from rot during Sep
TENDER apparently ceased with the
coming of favorable weather during
October. While yields are seriously
lowered in Maine, New York, Mich
igan, and Wisconsin, they are good
in Virginia, Indiana, Illinois and in
most of the important potato states
west of the Mississippi The west
ern crop is average or above. except
In Utah and Idaho. The quality of
potatoes, $50 per cent, is the lowest
since 1904. except for the crop of
1911, which was the same. Quality
is particularly low in New York and
Michigan, due to blight and rot, and
in northern potato producing states
generally they are understood. In
the middle and southern belts and in
the western states they are generally