The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-12-23
County and State Crop News.

Jefferson City. Mo.-Thc Bates
County December crop news as re-
ported by the farmers OF Bates Coun
ty shows the fall seeding of wheat 10
be or per cent Of last years acreage
The county condition OF wheat is 90
per cent OF normal. Fall blowing
has been 81 per cent completed. The
1920 corn crop is - per cent mer~
charitable and ~ per cent has been
husked. Husking wages without
board i'll county are 10 cents per
bushel and $40 per day, and wages
with board are~0 cents per bushel and
$5.75 per day.
Missouri wheat seeding in 1920
amounts to 2,S1o acres, as shown in
the joint report of f. A. Logan, Ag-
ricultural Statistician for Missouri,
and Jewell Mayes, Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture. The to-
tai 1920 seeding is 100000 under the
1918 seeding of 4,3oO>ooo acres, but is
still 100000 above the usual pre-war
peace-time acreage of 100000.
! Missouri wheat condition OF 90 per
cent compares with 81 per cent last
year and 50 per cent the ten-year
average. Most fields were pIowed
carly. and the crop sown in a-well pre-
pared seed bed. Wheat has made a
good growth III nearly all sections,
and much OF it is being pasturcb.
Many localities reduced the acreage
because of the sudden drop in price
and desire OH the part of farmers
to return their land to grass. The
acreage in the east section has been
sharply increased over that of last
year. because Of the poor corn crop
this year, while the northeast section
would have sown more except that
corn was down SO badly.
Sections Where the corn cop was
poor, show the greatest tendency to
wheat increase. An extensive in
quiry OH many farms in 81 counties
shows that Is counties increased their
wheat seeding over 1910 while IL
counties show decrease Condi-
ton OF wheat is favorable in all Sec
tions OF the state, except the south
west, where there was too much rain
at the usual seeding time and too dry
later on, which prevented some seed
ing in that section from Hickory to
Laclede counties. At present, mois-
ture is sufficient in most sections.
Fear OF chinch bugs next year is ex-
pressed by farmers in Knox,, Adair,
Clark, and some other counties, and
the Hessian fly is already reported IN
50 of the ia counties, no section be-
ing exempt. Thirty per cent of the
growing wheat acreage received COM
mercial fertilizer, and ? per cent OF
the seed treated for smut.
The Missouri apple crop has been
shipped out OF counties where pro-
duced to the extent Of 81 per cent
against 50 per cent last year. Most
Counties report not enough farm APP
pies for home use.
Farm wages during the past sea-
son showed tendency to advance
over last year and rates per mouth
with board are $40 against $50 last
year, and without board SIS against
Ssh last year, hands being employed 3
months during the year. Harvest
wages PET day with board were $3.75
against $3.45 last year, and without
board $3.50 against $4.35 last year,
and 28 days is the average harvest
period. Rates per day for other than
harvest work were $2.4o with board
against SAILS last year, and without
board $500 against SAYS last year,
with II8 days employment during the
year.
Corn husking is 50 per cent COM
pleted, with only AZ per cent gath
cred in the northeast due to being
badly down. Price paid per, bushel
for husking without board IS eight
cents and with board six cents. Rate
per day, without board $500, and with
board $500.
Seventy-eight per cent of the corn
crop is marketable, with more mofs-
ture in the late corn than usually ex-r
pected at this season. In the north
east and east sections but little over
half is marketable, due to lateness Of
the season and insect damage. Prices
Offered for corn range from IS to Is
cents per bushel with quotations not
stabilized and very little corn moviag.
Fall blowing u 81 per cent comp1.k,
| ed aGainst S. per ecnt last yeas 81
Rf4 tef eent fEu yeeO a6A
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