The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-07-22
GOVERNMENT GIVES
OUT CROP REPORT
States Wheat Ahead of Last
Year-Fruit and Potatoes I'm
der Average Production.

The 1920 wheat crop of Washing
ton, based upon conditions prevailing
July l, is placed at 1866, 900 bushels
or slightly less than June estimat
of 1880, 900 bushels. The report o
G. S. Ray of the Federal Bureau o
Crop Estimates states that the fore
cast for this season exceeds the 191!
production Of 100000 bushels an,
the average production for 1914-191s
which was 37,s6O,OOO bushels.
The July forecast for the Unitet
States wheat crop is S09, 600, 900 bush
els, this being considerable increase
over the June estimate of 7S0, 543, 00(
bushels. Last year the United States
crop amounted to 81, O00,O0 bushels
while $4,000, 900 bushels was the av.
erage production for the five-year per.
iod, 1914-191S.
The winter wheat crop of the state
placed at 17,659, 900 bushels on July
1 Ian increase of 100000 bushels
over the June 1 forecast) indicates a
production somewhat less than the
19,800,000 bushels grown in 1919. This
years estimated production also falls
below the average of 2O,795, 900 BUSH
els for the five-year period 1914-1918.
The condition of the winter wheat
crop increased from 20 per cent on
normal on June l to 81 per cent on
July 1.
The average condition of winter
wheat in the United States on July
l was 1913 per cent of normal, indi-
eating production Of 518,245, 900
bushels. The crop of 1919 amounted
to 731, 636, 900 bushels, while the av-
erage production for 1914-191S was
563, 49S, 900 bushels.
The spring wheat CROP of Wash
ington on July was placed at 25,-
018, 900 bushels. This is decrease
of over 100000 bushels from the
June estimate of 26,541, 900 bushels.
The crop averaged but 70 per cent of
normal on July 1 as compared with
SO per cent on June 1. The 1919 spring
wheat crop of the state amounted to
q, 100000 bushels while the average
production for 1914-1918 was IT,
065,000 bushels.
The United States spring wheat
production on July 1 was estimated
at 291, 1855 900 bushels (the crop av-
eraging 80 per cent Of normally against
209, 1851 900 bushels in 1919 and an av-
erage Of 25S,748. 900 bushels for the
ive-year period 1914-1918.
The amount of wheat remaining
On farms of the state July 1 was es-
timated at IL per cent Of the 1919
:rop or about al, 900 bushels, as COM
pared with $4,000 bushels on July
1918.
Wheat remaining on all farms Of
he United States July 1 amounted
% 47,756,O00 bushels (5.1 per cent of
1919 CROP while 900 bushels re-
NAMED on farms a year ago.
The planting Of potatoes in Wash
ngton this season is $4,000 acres as
with $1,000 acres in 1919
md an average of 1900 acres in 1914
1913. The crop, with a condition
10 per cent of normal on July 1, is
PREDICTED to be 1888, 900 bushels. The
1919 crop amounted to 1880, 900 BUSH
lis, while the average production for
he five years, 1914-1918, was 8,776-
700 bushels. The scarcity and high
price of potato seed together with the
high cost Of farm labor are the prin-
.iple reasons for the decreased DO
alto acreage in this state.
The 1920 potato acreage Of the
United States is placed at 3,849, 900
acres and q production of 3s7 ,5s6, 900
bushels is expected, based on July 1 |
which were 1913 per cent
If normal. The 4,O13,OOO acres of
,otatoes in 1919 produced 357, 1901 900
,ushels, 4
Dropping from a condition SIS per
.ent Of normal on June i to 70 per
::ent, on July 1, the apple crop Of
Washington. promises to be 1921, 900
,Hshels as compared with the June /
'orecast of 17,O56,0 bushels and the |
1919 production Of 1915, 900 busheh
This year the United States Is ex-
,ected to produce 200. 421 900 bushels
# apples, based on the July 1 condi-
ions, while last years crop totaled
A.420, 900 bushels. The average con-
lition Of apples for the entire country
dropped from 1913 per cent Of normal
IN June / TO 70.7 per cent on July l.
The condition of the Washington
beach crop dropped from 40 per cent Of
no2mal on June to but "a per cent of