Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-22
SOW LESS WHEAT
IS ADVICE GIVEN
BY GOVERNMENT
Department of Agriculture Says
Acreage Should Be Slightly
Reduced; Status of Live
Stock Uncertain.
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Washington, Sept. 81 More wheat
should be sown this fall than was the
average in pre-war years. but not so
much should be sown as was sown last
year. This is the outstanding fall
farming recommendation of the United
States department of agriculture,
which is watching the changes of
world supply and demand while Eu-
ropean countries are getting back to
normal in food production and thus
affecting the market for American
products. The departments sugges-
tions are based on the observations
of specialists who were sent abroad
to report on foreign conditions and
probable needs, and on the most ex-
tensive reports it has been possible to
obtain from other sources in this coun-
try and other countries.
AS to winter wheat, the department
suggests that 100000 acres be sown
this fall to the crop. and that 10000
600 acres be sown in 1920 to spring
wheat, making probable aggregate
production in 1920 of 1000, 900
bushels, of which 200,00O,00O bushels
would be available for export after
home needs are met. This production
would approximately equal the aver
age yield of wheat in the United
States for the five years 1915 to 1918
inclusive. The five-year average Is
thought to be a safe guide for Ameri-
can farmers.
The suggested acreage for fall-sown
wheat is approximately IS per cent of
the area soWn in the fail of 1918 and
is about the same as was sown in the
fall of 1917. The suggested area for
spring wheat is approximately IS per
cent OF the area sown in each of the
last two years The combined acreage
of winter and spring wheat suggested
for 1920 is about sc per cent of the
acreage sown for the 1919 crop,
slightly more than the acreage sown
for the bumper crop of 1915 and about
per cent less than the area sown for
the 1918 crop.
Winter Rye.
The pressure of war demand for
rye has ceased, and 1t does not seem
probable that exports next year will
greatly exceed 25.000.000 bushels.
Consumption of rye in this country
was stimulated by the war to about
100000 bushels If this rate Of
consumption is maintained, a crop of
seventy-five to eighty million bushels
would be necessary to provide 25,000.-
600 bushels for export, indicating
total acreage of 100000 to 6 1000, 900
acres, in comparison with $500, 900
acres sown last fall.
I'm any consideration of the prob
able foreign demand for American
wheat and rye based on pre-war con-
sumption experience" says the de-
partment, "a greatly increased trans
portation cost and the existing condi-
ton of international exchange cannot
be disregarded. 1t seems
clear that if the foreign exchange sit
uation continues as It is or becomes
more abnormal it will constitute a
powerful stimulus for some foreign
countries to seek grain in countries
other than the United States, or to
produce it,
Dairying.
1t is probable that several years
will be required for European coun-
tries to get back to their normal cattle
population. In order to supply their
needs it will be necessary for them to
import dairy products, and at the
present time this country is supplying
large quantities. Last years exports
were SO large that about 1000, 600, 900
pounds of milk were required to make
the products, or 100 pounds for each
COW in the United States. The de-
partment expects that exports will de-
crease and imports will increase with
the exception of condensed milk. 1t
recommends that dairymen give par
ticular attention to economical feed
ing, through the buying of concen-
trates in large lots or the cooperative
buying of feeds; attention to pastures
that have been allowed to run down;
attention to the feeding needs of their
cows by the use of cow-testing assoc
Citations; and the best use of labor and
labor-saving devices.
Livestock.
What the foreign trade in meat
and meat products will be in the flu
ture is impossible to predict with any
degree of accuracy, owing to many
factors which may affect it." the de-
partment says. "The exports will