Mexico Missouri message., 1916-07-06
MISSOURI'S CROP
OUTLOOK is GOOD
Wheat Less than Last Year but of
Good Quality; Corn Has Good Av-
.erage and Dat Crop Fine.

Columbia, Mo-, July l, 1916
With favorable weather, practic-
ally all crops made marked improve
ment during the latter part of June,
according to the monthly crop report
issued today from the Office of the
Missouri State Board of Agriculture.
The report follows:
The end of the month of June
found everybody busy and
hopeful on Missouri farmes,
where there's no talk of turning the
clocks up in order to get another
hour of daylight. Right now, with
late corn planting scarcely completed,
with early corn to clay by" and with
wheat, oats and hay harvests all at
hand, the length of the farmers day
is limited only by human endurance.
Yet there is heard no complaint.
This Missouri farmer is happy as he
hustles. No devastating drouth has
demanded its discount. The big
Muddy. and smaller streams have
kept within their banks. There is no
complaint of chinch bugs, or the army
worm or other insect pests of the
field crops.
CORN--The Missouri corn crop is
one of contrasts. While many fields
have been given the Iast blowing,
there are others in which planting is
just now being completed. This is
due to excessive rains early in the
season. While some corn is in ur-
gent need of cultivation, most fields
are comparatively clean. The latter
part of June was exceedingly favor
able for field activities. 1t is impor-
tohI' thOu6h, lhdI INC 6Iouuu Ue
stirred right now as the soil in many
fields, plowed too wet, is showing a
tendency to bake" Corn is gener-
ally of good color and is making a
fine growth since the coming of warm
weather. In some sections showers
would be beneficial. For the State
as whole correspondents report
corn at 1914, as compared with
76 one year ago, ana with a ten-year
average of 500. BY sections, shows
70. Northwest IA; Cen
trail, 81; Southwest 50; Present es-
innate as to acreag shows a loss of
2.S per cent as compared with 1918
500 acres last year. The principal
decrease is in the Northeast section,
the next heaviest is in the South
east.
WHEAT-Harvest conditions are
all that could be desired and the
wheat crop is going into shock in
good shape. The yield, though will
be the lowest for many years. FL
nal conditions of part not harvested
show SIS, or practically the same
as one month ago when the report
showed 57.2. Present figures would
be lower but for the abandoned
acreage, not now counted in condi-
ton, and representing a clear loss of
l7,6 per cent. A little more than
one-third-34.4-- of the wheat is
now in shock, as compared with the
Swear July harvest progress of 49,
per cent. Two years ago less than
one per cent of the crop remained to
be cut after July /. Present harvest
ing by sections, show: Northeast II
per cent; Northwest, 4; Central, "a.
AZ Southeast, 65. Thresh-
ing is just started in the most south
ern counties, so that it is too early to
forecast the yield with any degree of
certainty. A preliminary estimate
by correspondents gives the State
yield as 80 bushels, or, by sections,
as follows: Northeast, 9.5; North
west, 1873; Central, SIS; Southwest,
81; Southeast, S.3. The yield will
vary greatly-from to 80 bushels,
and in a few instances practically
In some of the counties in
the East, Central and Southeast sec
tons, where the wheat yield is gem
orally good, the crop this year will
not exceed five bushels per acre.