Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-05
Nebraska Wheat
Crop Will Sell
For S25,OOO,OOO
Total u. S. Yield Set at 800,.
100000 Bushels; Corn.
husker State Corn Crop
To Break Record.
By HOLLAND.


farmers of Nebraska who have been
cultivating wheat will have in hand
about $25,000,000, il reports which
reach New York are justified. Ne
bra.ka is expected to harvest little
over 25000,000 bushels OF wheat
which will be marketed probably at
SI.l2 a bushe. If this be true of
Nebraska, other great wheat-growing
states are likely to receive proper
tionately an even greater amount
than the Nebraska farmers. Okla
homa should receive considerably
more than $25,000,0O0. The wheat
growing states of the northwest will
in the aggregate receive, according
to the best estimate, not far from
$l00,00O000.
Washington authorities estimate
production of little over S00,000,000
bushels of wheat. Some of the pri-
vate estimates fix the number of
bushels as high as 840,000000. 1t
will be, in any event, in excess of
S00,0OO,OO0 grown upon nearly ST.
100000 acres.
II the harvest be as much as $40, 900, 900
bushels and wheat commands $112
bushel, then this crop alone will market
Tor nearly ssoo,ooo.ooo. 1t was at one
the crops OF the United States. including
cotton should give, IL properly cultivated,
a yearly return Of $4,000, 600, 600.
How near that figure the harvest of
10 the farmers 1t Is impossible now TO esti-
mate closely. II the prices for farm
products were this year as high as they
were two years ago. then possibly the
American farmers would be able to report
that they have produced new wealth by
all tho harvest of this year which, meas
ured by dollars would aggregate $1s.ooo,-
with the falling off ia the production OF
cotton. which 10 inevitable this year be-
cause . smaller amount than usual has
tain its prestige as the most valuable of
American agricultural products. Unless
unfavorabls weather sets in, Nebraska
will harvest a corn crop which Will sur
state. The weather thus far has been
favorable in Nebraska. Abundant rain has
fallen there and has protected the crops |
from the effects of excessive heat.
Record Crop in 1890.
II may be that not so many bushels of |
;s:s sU'a ys.s wa % In n'es lsse bushels
were harvested and that was record
crop. Washington authorities estimate
that the corn harvest fis year WIZ ran
bushels. Even though this estimate should |
prove to be accurate, yet 0O,000,O0o
bushels in excess Of 3,0oo, ,ooo. 900 will come
to the corn growers Of the United ssates,
weather for the next six weeks. Tns
farmers planted twice as many acres to
corn as they did to wheat. having sowed
somewhat in excess of 100, 1000 600 acres TO
corn. II the corn should be marketed for
a little over 60 cents a bushel, then 1t
would yield about $500, 900. 900.
Oats Of which the harvest e, VIII VIII oon.ti- ps H.
tute with corn and wheat our chief food
products and the money yield for all these
will probably not be far from $3,o0o,ooo.-
raised chiefly for food or with corn, also
for meat, that represents American agri-
culture as a whole. There are potatoes,
tobacco flax. rice, hay. S OF whisn dntann nsanry
of which the estimate is only 26'ooo'ooo
bales, and fruit.
VIII Furnish Millions.
What the market price will be for each
Spf these many products no one now can
Nrscast. But It is certain that the total
agriculture will furnish billions in new
wealth, notwithstanding the heavy de-
crease in the market price for agricultural
products as compared with prices as
these were in 1920 and for several years
earlier.
1t is noticed that throughout the south.
notwithstanding the unfavorable cotton u
situation, farmers are not idle. They
have SO cultivated their fields to corn
that the harvest Of corn in the south will
probably exceed in the number OF bush
els at any earlier harvest. Every one
of. the southern states excepting Missouri
cultivated more corn this year than ever
before, and in addition, with the excep-
tion OF Florida and Kentucky. devoted |
more acres to oats than had ever been
done. |.
These reports from the south suggest
that dversification of crops has been |
we'll established throughout the southern
states. Heretofore they have been princi-
paily occupied In the cultivation OF cot |
ton and tobacco. Until within few
years Louisiana did not realize that 1t
a soil we'll adapted to the
of Indian corn as of sugar cane
or cotton. Now Louisiana ranks among
the great corn.producing states and its
harvest of corn this year will bring mil
lions of dollars to the farmers.
Chicago Live Stock. t.
Chicago. Aug. 4.--Cattle-Receipts 5000
head; market, better grades beef steers, |
strong to Csc higher: others, steady; prae- ,
teal top, $10.25: bulk beef steers, s7o09
. rs: shee stock and better grades beef | 4
xtsara strong IN Sbc higher. others steady, |