The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-11-25
e. NATIONS HARVESTED
2,43o,32s,ooo BUSHELS
OF WHEAT THIS YEAR
Crop Reports From World Show
Gains in Nearly Every
Product.

Jefferson City, Mo-, November 2z.
IA summary of foreign crop pros
lpccts ANNOUNCED today by the Mis-
souri, COOPERATIVE Crop Reporting
Service, shows that the -state-fedeEa+
t latest reports for the Southern Hem.
| isphere continue to forecast very fav-
orable prospects for the harvest OF
IQ2O-2I.
In Argentina, recent rains have had
a very beneficial effect and the pros
pect OF the coming crop are excel
lent. Official returns place the area
of wheat at 100000 acres, COM
pared to l4,057,oo0 acres last year,
while from unofficial sources it is
! estimated that the yield of wheat will
amount to about 224,oooOoo bushels.
j In Australia occasional rains have
been reported, and the condition OF
the wheat crop throughout the COM
lnonwealth is favorable. Unofficial
estimates place the outturfl of wheat
as high as 144,ooo,ooo bushels.
Weather conditions are generally
good in the principal wheat-produc-
| ing districts of the Union OF South
Africa. The estimated production OF
wheat, oats and barley is wheat, g.
Z 100000 bushels; oats, 6,4oS,ooo; bar
ley, 100000 bushels.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the
100 cereal harvest was completed late
in October, and the sowing OF au-
tumn crops for the year 1921 has con-
tinucd under favorable conditions.
i Comprehensive estimates of the
1920 crops from all countries are not
available. aud for most crops the pro
portion OF those at hand is not sui
ficient to indicate what the aggregate
result is likely to be. Up to the pres
ent time no news has been received
from Russia, in ordinary times one
OF the greatest wheat-producing coun'
tries OF the world.
Estimates of the quantity of whea
harvested in the twenty-five coun
tries for which statistics are available
for 1920 aggregate 2,43o,325,oot
bushels against 2,3S5,S7o,ooo last year
These countries produce, according tt
the annual average production fol
the years IoOO-IoI3, about 67 per cen
OF the so-called wheat crop of thu
world.
For twelve countries, normally ,ro
ducing 10 per cent of the total GA
crop of the world, estimates this yea
show production of 2,oIo,6l5, oot
bushels, against I,S2I742,ooo bushels
last year.
About SO per cent OF the so-cal|e'
corn crop of the world is grown ii
the United States. Argentina, Hun
gary and Italy corn yields are no
available. but seven countries Gnclud
ing the United States and Argentina
producing 70 per cent of the world
supply arc yielding 3,57S,o35,oo
bushels, against 5,a62,ooS,ooo las
year.
The United States produces three
fourths of the worlds supply of cot
ton. Egypt and British India ar
: the only other commercially import
ant countries. The cotton produ,
ton in the United States for 1o2
(based on indications of Septembe
) 25) is I2,I23,ooo bales, against IL
$4,000 bales for last year. Unoff
cial estimates from Egypt show tn
!. cotton produced there at I,575,Oo
S bales, against 1871 900 in 1919. Il
S British India the production durinl
e the season of 10000 is estimated a
4,743,ooo bales, against 100000 bale
J during the previous years.