The Dolores star., 1921-04-22
COLORADO CROP REPORT
WHEAT CROP SECOND LARGEST
IN HISTORY OF STATE-RyE
ABOVE AvERAGE-LABoR
PLENTIFUL.
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winter wheat crop in the history OF
Colorado was released Saturday by W.
w. Putnam, agricultural stansuclah Oh
the United States Bureau of crop Es-
Inmates, in cooperation with the Coio
RADIO State Board of immigration. Ihe
forecast of production Is l6,42Z,up
bushels, compared with II, $4,000 bush
els for 1920. Weather and moisture
conditions have been so favorable that
the crop declined only two points from
last December l, the April l condition
being 81 per cent of normal compared
with 70 per cent on April l last year
and 90 per cent the ten year average.
The present crop was sown on 92OOoo
acres, compared with 1,OOO,UU acres
for the 1920 crop, or an acreage which
WAS only % per cent of that of last
year.
The winter wheat crop of the Unit
ed States had a condition of 81 per
cent of normal compared with '5.G per
cent last year at this time and SS.6 per
cent the ten-year average. The crop
improved 81 per cent from the last
December i llHuIt. L h' 'Stihih'' ih'i
Gates production Of G21 100000 bush
els. compared with 81, T,163.Oo0 bushels
last year and 40. .503,UoO bushels in
1919. The area sown Inst fall was 40
6O5, 900 acres. Indications are that the
abandonment is small. The 1920 crop
was sown on 4l,757 900 acres but only
81. IT3,OOO acres were harvested. The
record crop of 1919 was harvested
from 49,1O5,0o acres.
The production of winter rye in Colo
RADIO was forecasted ut l,i4S,oOO bush
els, compared with II production of l.
35T 900 bushels for grain last year. The
condition of rye on April l was 80 per
cent of NORMAL compared with - per
cent last year and 50 per cent the ten
year average.
The production Of rye in the United
States for this year is forecast AT &C.
3S60OO bushels from condition of
9O.3 per cent of normal, compared with
condition of S6S per cent, 63,3ls,OOO
bushels last year, compared with a
condition of 500 per cent and SS,9O9,-
900 bushels in the record rye crop of
1919 and the ten year average condi-
tiOn of SS.4 per cent with an average
production of 59933, 600 bushels for
the pre-war five-year average.
The number of brood sows in the
state on April l is estimated to be
about the same as year ago. c. 900
head. This figure is subject to revi-
sion to compare with the preliminary
census figures of January ], 1920,
which showed the number of brood
sows as 1868 and all swine as about
100000. The estimates of January ],
1921, indicated that the number of all
swine hadydecreased about II per cent
during the year. While there seems to
be some scarcity of market hogs in
the state, indications are that the
farmers are again stocking up and in
creasing their hOldings in their effort
to find means of marketing their
large supplies of cheap feed.
The number of brood sows in the
United States on April l was S.7S6,OOO
head or 9I.S per cent of the number
on hand April l, 1920, which was s.
9S5,OOO head or 90l per cent of the
number on hand April l, 1919, which
was 100000 head.
In Colorado the farm labor supply
April l is indicated as 132 per cent of
last year on the same date. and l05
per cent of normal on April /, com.
pared with 80 per cent of normal a
year ago: at the same time the farm
labor requirements appear to be only
81 per cent of normal, compared with
D per cent a year ago, making the
| supply 121 per cent of the demand,
compared with 81 per cent n year ago
and 81 per cent April l, 1919
Replies to preliminary inquiries on
the intentions of farmers to plant tC
potatoes indicate that the acreage tC
be devoted to this crop in Colorado
this year will be about 1O3 per cent
OF last years acreage, which would
mean planting of about $4,000 acres
Reports indicate that seed potatoes
are ample and reasonable in price. Re
ports from all parts of the state also
show that there are ample supplies OF
| all kinds of grains and other seeds
available and usually at reasonable
figures.
Reports concerning wages Of male
farm labor in Colorado showed the av
erage for the state to be, by the montl
with board, $3.50, compared viii
S66.3O last December and So. so in De
cember, 1916. Corresponding figure.
for the month, without board, were
| S62.37 on April l, compared with 50.
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