The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-03-10
SUMMARY MARCH
CROP REPORT

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the United States, as compiled by the
bureau of crop estimates and trans
mitted through the weather bureau
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, is as follows:
Wheat on Farms
State-Estimated stocks on farms
| March / this year $4,000 bushels,
compared with $4,000 a year g and
213,000 two years ago. Price on March
1 to producers $3.50 per bushel, com
pared with $1.0S a year ago and $1S5
two years ago.
United States-Estimated stocks on
farms March / this year 101. 600, 600
bushels. compared with 244,44S,OO0 a
year ago and 1852, 903 900 two years
ago. Price on March ! to producers
s1.64 per bushel, compared with S1.03
a year ago and 1874 two years ago.
Corn on Farms
State-Estimated stocks on farms
March / this year 5000 bushels, com
pared with 5000 a year ago and 1000
two years ago. No estimate Is fur
nished as to the price this year. but
one year ago 112 cents was received.
us cents two years ago.
United States-Estimated stocks on
farms March l this year 789,O00,000
bushels. compared with 1.116,559,000
a year g and 910.S94 900 two years
ago. Price March l to producers 101
cents per bushel, compare with 62.2
cents a year ago and ISL cents two
years ago.
Corn of Merchantable Quality
State-The percentage of the 1916
crop which was of m~erchantable quail
ity is estimated at 70 per cent, COM
pared with rs per cen of the 1915
crop and IS per cent of the 1914 crop.
United States The percentage Of
the 1916 crop which was of merchant
able quality is estimated at 81 per
cent, compared with Ill per cent of
the 1915 crop and S4.5 per cent of the
1914 crop.
Oats on Farms
State-Estimated stocks on farms
March / this year 40. 900 bushels,
compared with 10000 a year ago and
1861 900 two years ago. Price March
to producers IS cents per bushel, COM
pared with 60 cents a year ago and
65 cents two years ago.
United States-Estimated stocks on
farms March l this year $4,000 ,000
bushels, compared with sos. 14S 900 a
year ago and 379.369.0 900 two years
ago. Price March ] this year to pro
ducers $50 cents per bushel, com
pared with APT cents a year ago and
81 cents two years ago.
Barley on Farms
State - Estimated stocks on farms
March / this year $4,000 bushels, com
pared with 1873, 1000 a year ago ant
1922 900 two years ago. Price March
to producers SO cents per bushel, com
pared with IS cents a year ago and 81
cents two years ago.
United States-Estimated stocks OF
farms March / this year 32,8OO,OO9
bushels, compared with 5S,301 900
year ago and 1885, 900 two years ago
Price March / to producers 96.9 cents
per bushel, compared with 500 cents
a year ago and ST. cents two years
ago.
Weather and Crop Notes
February was an unusually COLI
month. Minimum temperatures rang
ing from 10 to "a degrees below zert
occurred on one or more days in thu
northern district, and hard freezes ii
the extreme southern district. Thu
first half was generally fine. but thu
latter half was unsettled and usual!
windy. The precipitation was gener
ally deficient in Nevada. but yer,
heavy in the Truckee and Carson bal
sins and in some parts of the Wake
and Humboldt basins. The pros
poets for water this summer have i'm
proved a~ppreciably.
II. #. ALCIATORE.
Meteorologist in Charge.