The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-11-11
FLOUR DROPS To
PREWAR LEVEL
Quotation for Family Patents Is
Down 40 Cents.
CORN CROP BREAKS RECORD
Largest Ever Raised, Exceeding Big
gest Previous Total by 100000
Enthusiastically Is TT Per
Cent Above Average.

Chicago, Nov. 9.-Wheat and flour
prices took tumble Monday. December
wheat opened on the board of trade
at $l.S9 bushel and closed at $1.S4A
a bushel, a loss of 81 cents from the
closing price on Saturday. March
wheat opened at $1.S4 a bushel and
closed at $1.S2 a bushel, a decline of
5 cents per bushel from the closing
price Saturday.
Flour went down to prewar prices.
In Minneapolis special patent brand
dropped 80 cents a barrel, the price
being $40 wholesale on carload lots.
Chicago prices dropped 80 cents to $11
a barrel and $11.35 delivered.
Record Corn Crop.
Washington, Nov. ga record crop
of corn, exceeding the previous larg-
est crop by 75,000000 bushels, was an
nounced by the Department of Agri-
culture in its preliminary estimate
placing production this year at $780,
10000 bushels. The quality is II
per cent above average.
Production of corn, according to the
preliminary estimate, in the principal
producing states, follows:
Ohio, 154, 100000 bushels; Indiana,
19O,431, 600; Illinois, 3O2, G34000; Min
nesota, 115,O5O,OO0; Iowa, AL, 100000;
Missouri, 211,2OS,OOO; South Dakota,
1OO,SO0OOO;' Nebraska, 250,9SS,0O0;
Kansas, 151,O3S,00O; Kentucky 96,-
624,0O0; Texas, 172,250,000.
Tobacco production this year also
established a record with a total out
put of LAG, 444OO0 pounds, or $1,000
600 pounds more than last years rec
ord crop.
Corn lost 100000 bushels, during
the month; tobacco was 100000
pounds less than forecast a month ago,
and there was a loss of 100000 bush
els in the buckwheat crop.
Increases were shown for a number
of crops, including potatoes, 100000
bushels sweet potatoes, 2,0OO,OOO bush
els, and apples, 100000 bushels.
The quality of corn this year is ~
per. cent above average.
A month ago the corn crop was fore
cast at 3.21G,192,OO0 bushels, while
last years production was 29l7,45O,-
600 bushels of which 142,211,0O0
bushels, or 40 per cent Of the crop,
remained on farms November l this
year, the report announced, compared
with 69,S35,OO0 bushels a year ago and
S2,61S,O00 bushels the average of the
preceding five years.
Preliminary estimates of this years
production of wheat. oats, barley, rye,
hay, rice and peaches, were announced
last month.
Estimates on Other Crops.
Production of other crops, as
shown by the preliminary estimates,
follows:
Buckwheat, 1922 600 bushels, com
pared with 15,532,OO0 bushels forecast
last month, and 16301,000 bushels
produced last year.
Potatoes, 421252,0O0 bushels, COM
pared with 4149S6,000 last month and
3579O1,O00 last year.
Sweet potatoes, 100000 bushels
compared with 100, 10000 last month,
and 1O3,579,000 last year.
Tobacco, 1,476444,OO0 pounds, com
pared with 1,47S,7SS,OO0 last month,
and 1889, 45S,OO0 last year.
Flaxseed, 1O736,0OO bushels, com
pared with 11,7O4OOO last month, and
$4,000 last year.
Apples. 23G1S7OOO bushels, com
pared with 227,979,OOO last month, and
147.457 600 last year.
Sugar beets, $4,000 tons, com
pared with S,790000 last month, and
6,421 900 last year.
Peanuts, 37499,O0O bushels, com
pared with 39,217,OOO last month and
33,263000 last year.