The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-06-18
BUMPER APPLE
CROP PROMISED
Number of Barrels viii Exceed
That of Last Year Which
Was 100000.

this year will exceed that OF last year
by 100000 barrels. although the pro-
ductiOn OF the United States will fall
OF materially. according to the fore
cast report of the United States de-
partment Of agriculture. II. F. Bryant
field agent OF the bureau OF crop esti-
mates, with headquarters in Charles
ton. has given out the report. which
indicates that while the apple crop
will be large, the peach harvest will
be cut In two. the potato crop small
Ter than last year. but with n higher
prevailing price; the oRt crop will
be much below normal and the hay
crop a little better than the average.
Tine report in full follows:
Unless there arc late reports of 4
farther heavy drop" West Virginia
has prospects for n larger apple crop
this year than was produced last year,
by about 100000 barrels. The out
look for the 1916 crop is about g.
0O0. 900 barrels as compared 20 a lit
tie more than 2.5OO,0OO barrels in
1915. The United States as a whole
Is ut present expected to produce a.
200, 900 barrels this year az compared
to 76.670O.O 600 barrels in 1915. This
decrease In the total crop may help
West Virginia market Its increased
crop. II must be remembered that
u%nfavorable conditions during the
summer may greatly reduce these
prospects, while very favorable condi-
lions will tend to increase tho total
yic'd figures. Such earIv reports arc
by no means final or mvariable. as
was shown last year by tho effect OF
the blight in apple %prI:ucinE states.
Severe damage to orchards In West
Virginia during ,ha winter leaves a
prospect for about half the crop the
n.ale produced last year. or n little
mar tIesent reports indicate 4 pro-
duction Of about 53F.gOO bushels thiS
year as compared to about 1.l64.OOO.
bushels in 1916. The United States
as a whole Is expected to produce
about $4,000. 900 bushels this year
compared to 6~4.21S.0OO bushels in
1915.
Present prospects may vary widely,
especially In the northern states. ac-
cordIng to favorable or unfavOrable
conditions later In the season.
Prices on potatoes, both in West
Virginia and in the United States as
a whole. r at present very much
higher than this time last year. in
dicating good market for early pota-
toes. On June l this year prices in
West Virginia markets averaged nine
ty-Bix cents a busheI as compared TO
eighty-one cents June /, 1915. In the
United States as n whole prices June
! this year averaged nearly ninety
nine cents q buBhel as compared to
nearly afty-one cents June 1, 1915.
There was a very large production
of potatoes in West Virginia last year,
while farmers In some state allowed
their potatoes TO rot in the ground
rather than dig them at low prices.
Production Of oats in West VIr-
ginia this year Is expected to be very
much lower than Id 1915, probably
about 2,69O.000 bushels this year as
compared to 1880 900 bushels last
year. This Is because OF reduction OF
acreage this year and also less favor
able conditions up to June 1. Later
reports may raise the prospects some
what, or may not. The United States
crops will probably be about 1885,
100000 bushels this year as COM
pared to about 1,540,S62 bushels In
1915.
Prospects are at present. very good
for the growing OF hay in both the
United States as n whole and in West
Virginia. The condition Of meadows
In West Virginia. June l. 1916. was
eighty-four per cen as compared to
the eight-year average Of eighty-one
per cent. In the United States as a
whole the condition OF meadows June
l, 1916. was 9O.3. as compared with
the eight-year average Of $40 per
cent. A rainy hay-harvest would
greatly change later reports, how
ever.
Pastures in West Virginia are In
better condition than usual. the aver
age June /, 1915. being ninety-one
per cent Us compared to the ten-year
average Of eiEhty-fve per cent. Pas
lures in the United States as n whole
are in better condition than usual,
averaging ninety-three percent as
compared to the ten-year average Of
eighty-nine per cent.