The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-10
Greater Tn Bulk and Value Than Ever Before, Ac- cortling to Official Esti- mates will Help Feed Europe Wheat Harvest Over a Billion Bushels.

Wasnfnxton. Aug. 10-No nation in 1he history Of the world ever harvested s. crop remotely to be compared, eatner xn bulk or in value, with the harvest of grain and fruit which the farmers or the Lni&ed States are preparing to zather, A large part of it will be sold to Europe's hungry and fighting mil lions.
 in itself far exceIling all previous rec ords, the reports Of the experts of the Depar1uefn of Agriculture. compiled | and just made public, show that tffe harvest of 1915 will exceed it n-alnost every part1cular The apple yield alone auzorsg important food products will fasn below the 1914 harvest.
 The wheat harvest this fall may pos sibly, for the first time in the history Of the countrg so above billion bpshelF- The present and eonse1Va. "a :. tive estimates of the Department Of Agriculture call for a, yield Of 966. .Oo,0O0 bushels On the markets, experts on prices calculate this cro~ will stand the country in about 8, ,1s5.1oo ,ooo. The farmers are expected to put $96o. GOO. .000 of this directly in their. own pockets.
 Duo to Big Acreage.
 The increase in the wheat crop is practically entirely due. to the increased acreage under cuttivation this year. AS the average yield per acre is ex- pected 1o falIs slightly below that Of last ear. being put at 16.s bushels to the acre, where last years yield was 1ssS bushels to the acre.
 The corn crop, ike the wheSf, is threatening to pass another neInor- able mark by turning out S,00os 900, coo bushels the advance estimate now be- : ing z91g 0o0 Ooo bushels. This is an in crease over last years yield of 245.- ,00o bushels. Marketed at 50 cents a bushel this crop will be worth g, ,75os- 800. 600 to the country
 The expansion of the corn crop is due at once to increased arreage under cultivation, and to g better yield per acre the arre yield having been in creased in sptfa Of the wet weather. from 2s.s bushels to z6-z bushels This crop will probAb1r represent close to three fourths the worlds total produc- tion- The cat crop, the third of the three great leaders, has Increased over last years record by nearly 25 per cent, the figures being for this year. !, ,402s- oOo.ooD hushelss for. last year :, ,141,s- o00. 900 bushels- Placed on the market the crop win bring. it is estimated, about S941s2OO 000- Thus these three crops alone represent marketable ad- dition to the nations wealth of nearly four billions of dollars.
 Othet Record Haryests.
 me years barley crop will it is es- tina4ed. amount to PIT .O00. 900 bushels
 
 crop has been Increased from 43, ,o0o,ooe to 4, ,0o0so0p bushels; the rice .eror from 24,ee8sD0o to s0.00o.Ooo bushels Eighteen million bushels of buck heal have been raised, as against r s00o. .oot in 1914s
 The potato crop is estfrnated at 431- 0o0, eco bushels, as against 406 GOO, ,00t bushels in 1914 while the sweet potato crop has increased from 57 100000 tx 63, 000 ooe busheIs and the flax yielc from 16O90,a00 to IS GOO GOO. Not th. least iI1poz tant figure in tAe total il 75.o000o0 tons of hay, 5.O0o,po6 nor, shan irA 1s14s and estirnated to be wortl se55. .0O0. 900. The peach crop has in creased from 54.000. eco to So,coo,Oo bushels
 Smokers will be pleased to know tha the Department of Agricl1ltl l1re esti mates that there win be harvested 1.0e3.op0,0o0 pounds of tobacco in tn, United States where but 1oSs, ,ooO. co pounds vera gathered zn 1914 Tn apple crop alone fails to hold its piac in the tr1uruphant u1arc'l of figures but thin is not considered a disap pofntneut, as apple trees almost neve bear heavily two years in succession and the falling off to 2D500o coo bushe1s after the record yield of 255. .ooe. 900 las year, was more or less expected.