The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-06-01
STRAWBERRY CROP FOR 1917


jefferson City, Mo-, May 26.-In-
formation furnished by the Missouri
ri railroads to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics is to the effect that the
States 1917 strawberry crop now be-
ing marketed will total 1884, 700
quarts as compared to shipments and
sales in 1916 amounting to 15,300,000
quarts, announces advance information
from the 1917 Red Book given pub
licity today by Commissioner William
H. Lewis.
The shortage in Missouri's straw
berry crops, 1917 over 1916, can be
easily overcome if every man, woman
and child over five years in the State
consumes a quart less than they did
year ago. By doing so the 1917
consumption will amount to approx
imately 100000 quarts less than was
the case in May and June of last year.
At Is cents quart the 1917 crop will
bring to the horticultural districts of
Jasper, jackson, Bollinger, Newton,
Perry, Ray, Stone, Vernon, Buchanan,
Dunklin, st. Louis, Jefferson, Clay,
Bates, Lawrence, Mcdonald, Barry,
Cooper, Howell, Greene, Oregon and
other strawberry producing counties
of Missouri, a total of $1,926,720 as
compared to receipts amounting to
81 $4,000 a year ago, figured at IL
cents a quart. A similar shortage in
the strawberry crop exists all over the
south, due to the lateness of spring
and the peculiar winter conditions of
late 1916 and early 1917. The Unit
ed States authorities class Missouri
as one Of the eight big strawberry
producing States of the Union, giving
it fourth rank in production for both
1915 and 1917 among this quartette of
commonwealth.
Besides Missouri, the strawberry
States are Kentucky, Tenn
essee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Arkansas and California. Mis-
souri, was only passed in production
in 1916 and 1917 by Tennessee, Louis
lana and Arkansas. In quantity of
yield per acre Missouri has second
rank with 2,250 quarts as compared
to 3,4O0 quarts for Kentucky in the
year 1916.
For 1917 Missouri is given third
rank, the yield per acre being 1,848
quarts as compared to 1856 for Ken
lucky and 2,400 for California, but
crop is estimated at 1901
per cent and that of Missouri for
1917 at only n per cent, a condition
which suggests that had all of Mis-
Souri's strawberry areas been as pro-
ductive in 1917 as in past years the
yield would have been 2,400 quarts,
or the same as that of California.
For 1916 Missouri is credited with
a strawberry acreage of $500, and
for 1917, $3.50 acres. Shipments,
1916, from the strawberry producing
counties aggregated 1880 crates of
ID quarts each. For 1917 the county
abroad and express shipments, when
,ver, will reach $4,000 crates of "a
quarts each. These figures do not in
Jude the 1916 and 1917 output of
farmers and others who have small
patches in Strawberries, those who
'nly raise enough for their own use
md sell to their immediate neighbors.
1909 similar weather conditions as
low existed in Missouri when it came
o strawberries produced. United
States census figures reveal that
armers of the State, and including all
theirs who marketed Strawberries
hat year, had 9,04S quarts. In 1917,
ounting all small producers who sell
but not including the
utputs of citizens who have few
lants for their own use will probab-
7 approximate 100000 quarts for
Iissouri.