The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1917-03-13
THE REPORT

state of Ohio and for the United States
as compiled by the Bureau of Crop
Estimates (and transmitted through
the Weather Bureau, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, is as follows:
Wheat On Farms
State-Estimated stocks on farms
March l this year 3,24O,0O0 bushels,
compared with 12,O5S,000 year ago
and S,03S,0O0 two years ago. Price
on March / to producers, $1.75 per
bushel, compared with Sill year
ago and $1.41 two years ago.
United States-Estimate stocks on
farms March 1 this year 101 100000
bushels compared with 244 ,448,0O0
bushels d year ago and 152, ,903 900 two
ers, $1.64 per bushel, compared with
Sl!03 a year ago and $1.34 two years
ago.
Corn On Farms
State-Estimated stocks on farms
March 1 this year 32,4OO,OOO bushels,
compared with 81 100000 a year ago
and 45,669,000 two years ago. Price
March l to producers, 102 cents per
bushel, compared with 6S cents year
ago and 73 cents two years ago.
United States Estimated stocks on
farms March 1 this year 7S9000,0O0
| bushels, compared with 1,1t6,559, 600
year ago and 910,894, 900 two years
ago. Price March 1 to producers, 101. o
cents per bushel, compared with 6S.2
cents a year ago and 75.1 cents two
years ago.
| Corn of Merchantable Quality
State-The percentage of the 1916
| crop which was of merchantable quail
ty is estimated at 70 per cent, COM
pared with 70 per cent of the 1915
crop and SO per cent of the 1914 crop.
! United States-The percentage of
! 1916 crop which was of merchantable
quality is estimated at $40 per cent,
compared with I'll per cent of the
1916 crop and S4.5 per cent of the
! 1914 crop.
Oats On Farms
Estimated stocks on farms
March this year 14,400,000 bushels,
compared with 26,911 900 a year ago,
and 5,60l 900 two years ago. Price
March 1 to producers, 58 cents per
bushel, compared with AZ cents a year
! 20
United States-Es Estimated stocks on
farms March | this year 394, 100000
bushels, compared with 59S,148,000 a
year ago and 79,369,O00 two years
ago, Price March 1 to producers, 56.9
cents per bushel, compared with 42.7
cents a year ago and 52.1 cents two
years ago.
Barley On Farms
State Estimated stocks on farms
March | this year 12S,000 bushels, com
pared with $4,000 year ago and
22S 900 two years ago Price March l
to producers, l04 cents per bushel,
compared with 50 cents year ago,
and 62 cents two years ago
United States-Estimate stocks on
farms March / this year 32SO0,0OO
bushels, compared with 5S,S01,OO0 a
year ago and 42,SS9,O 900 two years ago
Price March / to producers 96,9 cents
per\ bushel, compared with 59.6 cents
year ago and 67,7 cents two years
ago.
FARM RESERVES IN OHIO,
MARCH I, 1917
March /, this year, finds the stocks
of grain on farms in Ohio lower than
for number of years. The farm re
: serve on corn is about IL million
bushels less than the smallest reserve
on March l tin 1908) of any year dur
ing the past ten years, and is about A
million bushels less than the largest
March l reserve lin 1879 during the
same period. The weather FOLLOWING
corn harvest was such that the cror
conditioned we'll, and the percentage
of the crop which was of merchanta
BILE quality was not far below the ten
year average, In 1913 the ohio Marcf
farm reserve OF wheat was abou
one and one half million bushels lest
than our present reserve. With tni'
one exception, March ! reserves o
wheat have been materially larger dur
ing the past ten years. The largest re