Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-17
STATE CORN CROP
SMASHES RECORDS
Goes Over 100000 Bushels,
According to Official Fig
ures Compiled

Pennsylvania has gotten into the
corn state class. Figures compiled at
the statistical bureau of the State
Department of Agriculture indicate a
yield that will smash all previous Key
stone state records and approximate
| 74,l76.000 bushels. This figure is
away beyond any hopes last spring.
and at the prevailing prices of corn
will mean big sums of money to the
| farmers.
While the corn is thus a bumper
crop, the acreage yield of wheat has
gone below the ten year average. and
there has also been a slump in oats
but potatoes have been sizing up bet
ter than last year. and buckwheat
VIII so beyond the high mark OF 1915.
| The official statements on the
crops are:
Whcat-The average yield of wheat
is estimated at III bushels as COM
pared with 1873 bushels last year
and 10-year average of ISL BUSH
! els per acre. The total production is
estimated at 2S.011. 900 as compared
with 26,o2S,600 bushels last year.
The increase in acreage accounts for
| the difference in the total. Condi-
! tions for wheat were ideal and q
record crop was expected until May
proper fertilization. Then insect
pests and plant diseases, together
with storms before harvest and while
the grain was in shock, blasted the
hopes of the Pennsylvania farme ers.
Last year conditions improved as
| harvest approached and this year it
was the reverse. The quality of
wheat is estimated at 81 per cent
compared with 10S per cent one year
| ago.
Rye-It appears that the yield of
rye is 40 bushels per acre. The
average yield last year was 17.5
bushels and the 10-year average is
IA bushels per acre. The total
| production amounts to 4,7S6.S00
bushels as against 4,676,500 bushels
| last year.
Oats-The average yield of oats
! is 29.6 bushels per acre. making a
total production of 33.546.5 500 BUSH
els. Last years yield was SO BUSH
els per acre, and the total produc-
ton 4,103,0 900 bushels. The 10-year
average is S2.6 bushels per acre.
Quality of oats this year is So per
cent.
Barley-The average yield of bar
ley is estimated at 24.9 bushels per
acre and the total production S4S,600
bushels.
Corn-Present indications are that
the average yield of corn will reach
Al bushels per acre. and, considering
the large acreage, the total produc-
tion will approximate 74.176,000
bushels. This is the. largest corn
crop ever produced in Pennsylvania.
Weather conditions were very favor
able during the growing season, and
the crop has matured without dam
age by frost.
Buckwhcat - The conditions of
buckwheat is 90 per cent and is in
dicative of a yield of 21.0 bushels
per acre. On this basis the total
production will approximate 6,652.-
600 bushels. Last years crop was
estimated at 6.1s1,6 bushels.
Potatoes-The condition OF pota-
toes on October is so per cent and
forecasts an average yield of 81
bushels per acre and a total produc-
ton of 26.S63,000 bushels. The
average yield last year was S3.5
bushels per acre and the total pro-
duction 24.733, 900 bushels. The late
potatoes are a better yield than the
early ones. Considerable rot has
been reported, more particularly in
the northern part of the State, due
to blight and wet weather.
L Tobacco-The acreage of tobacco
is per cent below last year. Con-
dition is S5 per cent of a normal
and indicates a yield of 1.34S pounds
per acre and a total production of
50,s32,500 pounds. The crop last
year was estimated at 5S,00T.000
pounds.
Pasture-The condition of pasture
is 9S per cent compared with a nor
NAL and indicates that pastures and
meadows are in very good condition.