The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-09
PROSPECTFOR
CROPSBETTER
THAN In 1920
Missouri Wheat, Oats and Rye
Make Favorable Showing
in Spite of Severe
Freeze.
PEACH CROP IS FAILURE
Farm Labor Supply Is 20 Per
Cent in Excess of Last
fear-Wages Will
Be Lower.

Missouri wheat on April first was 9s
per cent normal. which is % Der cenl
above the condition last April and but
~ per cent below the condition two
years, ago. according to a report issued
BY T. A. Logan. agricultural statistician
Tor Missouri, and Jewell Msyes. secre,
taV Of the State Board Of Agriculture.
This condition indicates a yield Of four
teen bushels per acre or a prospect Of
sg,4s9OOO bushels on the 2.82O.000 acres
sown last fall.
The Easter freeze set the wheat back
TO practically the condition on the first
Of March ard scorched the top growth.
also killing plants that we're joinied, but
with favorable weather from now on the
final yield should not be seriously re-
duced The Hessian fly has been report
ed in Linn, Scotland. Fails, Miller.
Phelps. Morgan, Csle, Boone, and Mont.
eomery counties. Chinch bugs are pres
ent in Rails. Pike. Lewis. Audrain, 81.
Clair, Miller. Montgomery. jefferson,
Franklin. and Lawrence counties. A
green louse has appeared in Polk, New
ton, Jasper, Howard, Maries, Greene,
Franklin, and Lawrence counties.
Rye condition is 80 per cent against
% per cent last year, which promises
yield Of twelve bushels per acre. The
freeze did but little damage except to
plants headed out.
Oats seeding is 81 per cent completed
against Is per cent on the FIRST Of last
April A large acreage has been seeded
everywhere pointing TO an increase Of 10
per cent over that in 1920 or l,953.OO0 !
acres for 1921. the largest area ever sOwn
10 oats in Missouri. Plant specialists !
believe the ost crop will fully recover
from the recent freeze. Spring wheat
has been seeded on a 10 per cent in
creased acreage, or 5000 acres for the
sate.
Spring Plowing Is IS per cent complet-
against Is last year. Work has been
Fed by wet weather in the southern
- n Pnd is going forward rapidly at
The present lime. PlOEing ground for
corn has gone forward all winter
Brood sows on Missouri farms show an
increase Of per cent over last year.
There is an increasing interest in hogs
and evidently a decrease to stock up
again. Farm labor supply is 20 per cent
= excess Of last year and slightly above
normal. while the present demand is thir-
ieen points below that Of 1920. Indus
trial declines have NOT resulted in a no
iiceable movement of city labor to the
larms, Farmers are planning to use lit
ile hired help and to pay less wages than
during the past two years.
Pastures are far advanced and live
stock pay bui little notice TO dry feed.
Pasture rents per month average sl.75
per head for cows and $l.65 for 2-year-
old steers. The 1921 alfalfa hay crop
was severely damaged by the Easter
freeze with possibility Of losing one cut.
ting.
Fruit was heavily damaged by the Eas-
ter storm. Peaches and plums were de-
siroyed. The damage 20 pears was only
slightly less while apples suffered heavy
loss in southwestern commercial district.
cherries and garden crops
we're also severely damaged.