The Ordway new era., 1921-04-22
COLORADO CROP REPORT
WHEAT CROP SECOND LARGEST
in HISTORY OF sTATE-RYE
ABOVE AvERAGE-LABoR
PLENTIFUL.
western Newspaper Union News Service,

winter wheat crop III the HlsteSs VI
Colorado was released Saturday by w.
w. Putnam, agricultural statsticlah VI
the United States Bureau of crop Es-
Inmates, in cooperation with the Colo
RADIO State Board of immigration. Ihe
forecast of production is l6,422,ooo
bushels. compared with 17,195,O00 bush
els for 1920. Weather and poisture
conditions have been so favorable that
the crop declined only two points from
last December /, the April condition
being So per cent of normal compared
with 10 per cent on April / last year
and 90 per cent the ten year average.
The present crop was sown on 92O,Ooo
acres, compared with 1,00O,OOO acres
for the 1920 crop, or an acreage when
was only 81 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 1915 per
cent last year at this time and S3.6 per
cent the ten-year average. The crop
improved 81 per cent from the last
December / figure. The estimate indi-
Gates IL production of 62l 100000 BUSH
els, compared with JIi, ,T63,OOO bushels
last year and 129, 100000 bushels in
1919. The area sown last fall was no.
6O5,000 acres. Indications are that the
abandonment is small. The 1920 crop
was sown on 41,757 600 acres but only
81, ,173,000 acres We're harvested. The
record crop of 1919 was harvested
from 40, 100000 acres.
The production of winter rye in Colo
RADIO was forecasted mt 1,44S,O0O bush
els, compared with Il production of l.
$4,000 bushels for grain last year. The
condition of rye on April ! was 30 per
cent of normal, compared with 10 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.
3S6,000 bushels from a condition of
9O.3 per cent of normal, compared with
a condition of S6.S per cent, 63,31S,00O
bushels last year, compared with II
condition of 90.6 per cent and SS,909,-
600 bushels in the record rye crop of
1919 and the ten year average condi-
tion of SS4 per cent with an average
production of 59,933,O0O bushels for
the pre-war five-year average
The number of brood sows in the
state on April 1 is estimated to be
about the same as n year ago, 62,O0O
head This figure is subject to revi-
ron TO compare with the preliminary
census figures of January 1, 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 had decreased about 10 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 1 was S,7S6,OO
head or 91.S per cent of the number
on hand April 1, 1920, which was s.
9S5,OOO head or 90.1 per cent of the
number on hand April 1, 1919, which
WAS 3,3iU,UUU mead.
In Colorado the farm labor supply
April l is indicated as 132 per cent of
last year on the same date, and 1O5
per cent of normal on April l, COM
pared with so 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
99 per cent year ago, making the
supply III per cent of the demand.
compared with 81 per cent year ago
and 81 per cent April l, 1919.
Replies to preliminary inquiries on
the intentions of farmers to plant ia
potatoes indicate that the acreage to
be devoted to this crop in Colorado
this year will be about 1O3 per cen,
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 ais,
show that there are ample supplies OF
all kinds of grains and other seed.
available and usually at reasonab,,
figures.
Reports concerning wages of mall
farm labor in Colorado showed the av
erage for the state. to be, by the montl
with board, $3.50, compared witt
$66.30 last December and S32. so in DE
cember, 1916 Corresponding figure
for the month, without board, wer
$6237 on April l, compared with 80
last December and $47.5O Decembe,
1916. The complete figures indicat
that the wages for farm labor hay
materially decreased during the pas