Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-08
IOWA CROPS WORTH
OVER HALF BILLION
CONSIDERABLY UNDER VALUE
OF LAST YEAR DESPITE
LARGER YIELDS.
DIRECTOR REED GIVES
DEFINITE, FINAL FIGURES
Total Value $56o.4So,6se, Compared
With $3.50, o56,0O2 in 1e1e-Averaee
Yield, Prices and Acreage of Var
ious Grain and Field Crops-Corey
Reports Success of Iowa State Fair
,pecia, to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Dec. s.--The official
crop report for the year 1920. made
to the state hoard OF agriculture In
annual session today by Charles ID.
Reed, director of the Iowa weather
and crop service. reported the total
value of this years field crops in iowa
based on Dec. / farm prices as $500
t60,6SS. Last years field crops were
salued at sssOo5s. 00e.
Corn was figured this Year at 4,
cents per hushel whereas a Year age
it was figured OF Sill per bushel. The
total yield this year was 4'S,Soo, 0oa
bushels, as compared to- 6,622.0ee
bushels last year. There was a corn
acreage this year of 100000 acres
and the average Yield was i6 bushels
per acre. The total value of the 1920
corn crop is sa2a6Ss.00D, as corpar-
ed with s4Sa4i1,I40 last year,
The oats crop this Year is estinat-
ed as worth ssa,146.l44 as compared
with sl25.690a60 in 1919. The total
average Weld % bushels to the acre.
The averase price is ticured at SO
cents per bushel as compared with
Ga cents last year.
There were 100000 acres of spring
wheat this year, the average yield
heing il.3 bushels, average price S!.So
and total yield 4.5200o0 with total
value of s6,19aGO0. The winter wheat
acreage totalad 4sl 900 acres. Yield
1871. price sl.il. total yield S,49e, 700.
and total value ,s11.971, 900. Last year
teeSsnSi1~ whfat crop was valued at
Ss-a4 611 and winter wheat sac
: iSa0eS. The yiald Of spr.ne wheat last
ear vas 1.145 200 and winter wheat
e5nS.600 tushcls.
The acreage in potatoes this year
as 104.aao AVERAGE yield 10 bushels
,er acre aver ge price s1a2 per
u bel. total WELD 1l.495.350 bushels.
<1'tal value Si4.oaa 32I. Last wear the
he ACREAGE in potatoes was $4,000.
Vera re. WELD 4S bushels per acre.
verace price sl.94. total yield 1912,
10 and total value s9.5S7.693
Tame hay. excluding alfalfa. figur-
ed s16.24 per ton this year. is valued
al sT0.637,S29. as compared to SOL. :
nS6.SST last year. when the average
price per ton was figured at $1s.a7
per ton. Pasture and grazing are esti-
mated as worth 81 065136. as com
pared with 500, 900 900 in 1919.
Fair Makes Profit of $4,000.
AT the annual meeting of the state
board of agriculture held i'm the
board rooms at the state house to-
Gay. official fi2ures were given out by
Secretary A. r. Corey. of the Iowa
STATE fair. showing that the fair this
year made act profit of S90,o19. OF
this amount $4,000 will he used in
completing the cattle barn and sales
ring so that 1t can be used for pure
bred stock fa'es during the winter
season. President Charles Camera n
of Alta and Treasurer W. w. Nor
row presented their reports.
The state fair was financially the
the net profits were $4,000. The at
tendance year. ago, however. eX-
ooeded that of this year by about "a
0CO. The total attenda nee this. ye>r
was 3S3.S26. .tccordinc to Secretary
Corey this slump in attendance was
due to the shortage of labor. hts,l,
prices and similar factors whict led
many persons tc give Up their annual
vacation at the fair this year
The total cost of, the 1920 fair was
S22992S7. The cash premiums paid
amounted to $s112,620. This was an
increase of s27.0S1 over the amount
paid in 1919. The total expense Of