The Holly chieftain., 1922-07-20
COLORADO JULY,
1922 CROP REPORT

lOIccdsl pIOuucllOil Vi -, iZSUOU
bushels for the combined winter
and spring wheat crops; 23,495, 600
bushels of corn, 7.ls2.0O0 bushels of
oats, 5,666,OO0 bushels of barley, L.
l6l, 900 bushels of rye, 1S,705,000 bush
els of potatoes, l,577,0 600 tons of sug-
ar beets, 2,703,OO0 tons of hay, 4,O91,-
600 bushels of apples, 10000 bushels
of peaches, 100000 bushels of pears.
according to the report just released
by the U. s, Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, division OF Crop and
Livestock Estimates IN co-opera,
tion with the State Board of Immi,
grafton.
The Colorado winter wheat crop
will amount to about 22,053.000
bushels II conditions remain excep-
tiOnally favorable, and an average
yield of nearly 10 bushels to the
acre is finally produced on the l.
$4,000 acres left for harvest Last
year the average yield was only IL
bushels to the acre. when the crop
amounted to l6152,O00 bushels. In
1920 the average yield was l7.5 bush
els, the condition of the winter
wheat crop on July | is so percent
of normal compared with "a percent
for last year at this time, and sc
percent the 10 year average. The
forecast of the spring wheat crop
is 7,675,0O0 bushels or an average
yield of about lS.7 bushels per acre
The average yield last year was 10
bushels. Condition at this time is
7s percent of normal. compar,d with
IS percent for last year. The hot
and dry weather during June caus-
ed reduction In condition of ii
points. Average yield in 1919 was
1874 percent.
The Colorado corn acreage is es-
timated percent larger than last
year, totalling 1,l2O,OOO The condi-
tion on July ], was 80 percent OF
normal compared with 95 percent
for last year and S6 percent the ten
year average. On the basis of the
condition of the crop on July l, and
an average yield of 2Q7 bushels per
acre for the total acreage. the corn
crop would amount to 2a495, 900
bushels compared with 15979OOO
bushels last year, when the average |
yield was only l45 bushels to the
acre. During the past four years,
only about 75 to so percent of the
entire acreage of corn has been
harvested for grain about 5 percent
for silage and the remainder either
pastured or abandoned. Thus the
actual grain would be from 90 to
25 percent less than the July estI.
mate
The COLORADO oat crop declined 9
points during June, and reached
July l with figure of 81 compared
with 95 percent last year, and 80
percent the ten year average. On
the basis of 22SOOO acres, the crop
this year will amount to 7,1S2,0O0 |
bushels compared with G,772,00O
bushels last year.
The barley crop OF the state de-
clined 7 percent during June and
had a condition of S5 percent on
July |, compared with IS percent
last year, and 80 percent for the ten
year average. The 100000 acres de.
voted to the crop this year at the
indicated yield of rs bushels per
acre, would amount to 5,G66,0o0
bushels compared with 4.444,0O0
bushels last year.
A very heavy increase in the Colo
RADIO potato acreage Is shown and
over 100000 acres are estimated to
have been planted compared with
about 100000 acres planted last
year The condition on July /, wac
Sc: l2 points less than a year ago
at tulS NiihC, anu % poilItS Dt""
the ten year average. With an av-
erage yield o. about l25 bushels per
acre. the crop this year will amount
to 1875, 600 bushels, compared with
1l.070,00O bushels last year. The
increase Is heaviest in the impor.
tnat irrigated and commercial dis
tricts where the crop is generally
in excellent condition, except for an
acute shortage of irrigation water
that exists in the Greeley-Wcld
county district. The carlot move.
ment of potatoes from the 1921 Colo
RADIO crop totalled 17.s0l ears, com
pared with ll,345 cars from the 1920
crop.
The sOil.mOisture condition for |