Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-04
WHEAT CROP OF
WORLD WILL BE
FAR IN EXCESS
Of 1920 YIELD
An Increase of $4,000, 900
B u S h e | S Is Expected,
Based y p 0 n Estimates
Made on September 30,
FRUIT CROPS MET
HAVOC FROM COLD
Warm February, Bringing
Out the'Bn. Followed By
Late FySA Responsible
for DeQS,n
tRy 60 neIated rress.l

nal heat6S nulation which has
marked o. hen conditions all
over tb. ,hern, hemisphere this
year > reduced equally re-
mark Ind erratic outputs OF
sum J, of American and for
eigr luction compiled for and
by ~ agricultural department.
The worlds bread crops came to
abundant fruition, in spite of
drought and heat during the grow
ing season. The world in 1921,
up to September 80, it was indicat-
ed, would have a total wheat crop
157000,O00 bushels greater than
in 1920.
Spring Arrived Early.
BY another freak, fruit crops,
almost in world sense, met havoc
from cold in a season which has
set new records everywhere for So
lar heat. This paradox was occa-
stoned by the fact that last Febru-
ary the sun got at its work of bring
ing spring weeks in advance of nor
NAL, and trees and shrubs re-
sponded by budding out and final
ly coming into flower and bloom
by March in nearly all areas where
fruit is grown. Frosts could not be
averted on all the nights, however,
and this year the United States
will produce about 109,000,00O
bushels of apples, against 10000
600 in 1920. Only the orchards of
the Pacific coast, northern New
England and northern New York
escaped.
Cotton Suffered.
Cotton suffered greatly, and the
agricultural department experts
assign the weather as perhaps the
principal cause for so per cent
reduction in output. The mild
weather of winter and spring gave
its famous insect enemy, the boil
weevil, full freedom to live and
thrive, and even let him move
north many miles from previous
latitudes.
Later drouth conspired to cut
down the production Of the fiber.
European fruit and subsidiary
crops were sharply reduced. the de-
partment finds, although the bread
grains survived. Their success. it
was said, was due to the fact that
they were chiefly fall-sown crops
which grew we'll in the mild win
ter. The spring grown grains. root,
and forages, including oats. barley
and wheat, in the United States as
elsewhere, lived through but yield
ed little. Russia was the one ex-
ception in northern territory, but
in terms of statistical averages.
the department says, little grain
was sown there. Italian lemons
and Grecian currants were found
in fair condition this fall.
Cause of Heat Wave.
AS to the causes of the heat
accumulation, the weather bureau
suggests that the usual seasonable
interchange of air between the po-
lar and tropical regions was this
year badly disarranged by atmos-
pheric pressure disturbance, al
though any certainty on the sub
ject is hardly possible. The ba-
rometer in "semi-permanent high
pressure regions" over the Allan
tic and Pacific oceans was found
to have maintained a higher de-
gree than normal, which might
have had an effect in diverting
rains to the north all through the
season.
Then the decreased snow fall of
1921, and the thinness Of ice on
streams and lakes allowed solar
heat, normally expen led in melt
ing and evaporation, to be stored
up, the bureau says, In heating the
soil and atmosphere.