Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-12
WEATHER ADDS GREATLY
TO NATIONS CORN CROP
Favorable October Conditions In
creased Total Yield BY
100000 Bushels
QUALITY is MUCH HIGHER

October weather conditions result
ed in an increase of 10000 900 bushels
in the country's crop of corn. The
Department of Agriculture's Novem-
Der crop report today placed the pre-
liminary estimate of production at
2,749, $4,000 bushels. While the crop
is smaller in size than last years. it's
food value is materially greater be-
cause the quality this year is more
than 10 points higher.
With a wheat crop of about 919,-
100000 bushels, which is some 100.-
1000 bushels more than the average
of the las. five years, and large crops
of buckwheat, rye, rice, beans, pota-
toes, onions and cabbage. the coun-
try's food crops this year have been
bountiful
The crop of tobacco is record one
by 100000 pounds, being 1,266,6S6,-
900 pounds this year
Preliminary estima les of production
of various crops follow; Buckwheat,
18,370,00O; potatoes, 800, 101 900; sweet
potatoes, SS,114,000; tobacco, 1866
686,000 pounds; fiaxseed, 14,646,00
bushels; pears, 1O,342,0OO; apples, 1877
100000; sugar beets, 6,549,000 tons /;
kafirs, 81 $4,000 bushels; cranberries,
374,0 barrels; onions, 13,43S 900 bu-
shells; cabbage, $4,000 tons; Sorghum
syrup, 29,757,00O gallons; cloverseed,
1,24S,0O0 bushels; peanuts, 52.617,-
600 bushels
Other details of the report are:
Weight per measured bushel-Wheat
SIS pounds; oats, 1872; barley, 46.9.
Stocks of old corn on farms Novem-
Der / were 11S,400,00O bushels, COM
pared with 34,41S,000 last year
A summary of the report by the bu-
reau of crop estimates says:
1.-THE almost ideal weather of Octo-
Der in the main agricultural areas OF
the country has resulted in an increase
of the indicated corn crop by about
80 900 900 bushels, with a quality OF
$50 compared with 1872 last year, and
S2.S average. The results in the
southwest and the far west are not NJ
to expectations. While the absolute
number of bushels is only 81 per cent
that of last year, the food value, be-
cause of the higher quality, is much
larger proportion. The absolute pro-
duction is only a fraction Of one pei
cent below the five-year average. The
stock of last years corn remaining
on farms is more than three times the
amount of old corn on hand a year
and in excess of the usual.
"Buckwheat was damaged by early
frost lowering the good earlier pros
poets of yield by about six per cent
but leaving this crop still five per cent
in excess of last year, and 20 percent
above the average.
"Po ,ato yields now reported confirm
the earlier estimates. The summer
droughts resulted in small size and re-
duced yields in the main producing
areas. The crop now estimated is IL
per cent below the enormous crop OF
last year, but eight per cent above the
five-year average, being in size the
fourth crop of record.
OWSSs pOJdlO pIOuuCIlOu cACccus
by a slight margin, even last years
big crop and is about 40 per cent above
the five-year average.
Tobacco, with large acreage, has
yield per acre materially above ay-
erage and total production of TO-
100000 pounds above last year, which
furnished the largest previous crop OF
record.
1.-THE rice crop is about Is per cent
greater than last year, almost 20 per
cent more beans: onions, per cent
more; cabbage, Is per cent more. and
the commercial crop of apples IL per
cent more. Sugar beets are almost
10 per cent more and cane for sugar
about 25 per cent more Sorghum
syrup, relatively Insignificant, is 13
per cent less. Kafir corn is 20 per
cent less; peanuts s per cent less"