The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1922-08-04
Billion Dollar Crop
Is Prediction
Northwest States Face Biggest Yield
Since 1915, Says U. S. Land
Bank Head

Northwest crops this year will av-
erage better than in any seosan since
1915. according to e. G. Quamme,
president of the st. Payll Federal
Land Bank
Heavy yields, combined with lower
productIon costs and prospects Tor
lair prices, will make this season one
OF the most profitable in years for
farmers, ne declared IN statement
issued Friday.
Mr.. Quamme estimates that the val
ue OF Iarm products produced in the
Northwest Inls year will be more
than Sl,O00,00O,0V0. North Dakota
alone, ne believes will raise 5000 .OOO.-
900 worth OF agricultural products this
year.
speaking generally of the entire
district OIL the Northwest, the season
mas been very favorable to the healthy
growth and development of practical
~ all OF our field products" MIR.
Quamme SAID. I'VE have a good crop
inns year, the best that we have had
since 1915.
There is an abundance of hay ana
IN most places much more than is
needed for the ambount of stock on
hand.
We have had no hot winds, blight
or Dlack rust to injure the wheat crop
botn the yield and quality will be
Tar above the average. Barley acreage
was greatly reduced, but what barley
Lnere IS Will yield well and the otlal-
ty Will be very good. Rye acreage
was materially increased, and this
crop is good everywhere. The oat
crop is thin in some parts of Mime.
sofa, but is filling well and will be OF
soou qualify. In other regions the oat
;rop is exceptionally heavy. Flax is
'oou everywhere, and is well advanc-'
"a lor TINS time of the year, which
vlll brlng 1t safely to maturity berorc
ne frosJs injure it.
The potato crop is very good in
Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and
lorth Dakota
Inc corn acreage has been slight
increased this year and the crop
as made good growth and is well q.
anced. Tne prospect is for a salts
actory crop OF corn, both for market
nd slIage.
The berry crop was satisfactory.
nd the fruit crop, constituting for
ie most part apples, plums and cher
es IN this region, promises an abun-
ant yield. Garden and truck crops
re good everywhere.
Farming operations have been car
ed on economically, and the produc-
on cost will be much less than In
cent years.
In an average year the winter
neat crop constitutes two-thirds of
e wheat crop of the country and
e spring wheat crop one-third. The
inter wheat crop is now harvested
I'd for the most part threshed ana
1t was on the whole a
sappolntlng crop. the poorest in
'ars. The total wheat production
erefore, will not be great this year,
d the total yield probably will not
mucn in excess of our own do
sstic needs
'This is not generally known yet
[ VIII be within the next thirty
US. The effect will be to strength
the price for wheat, and this, in
~, also will affect the prices paid
other cereal crops. 1t would seem
srefore, that we have a right to
TX forward to receiving fair prices
s year for such crops as we pro-
ce here in the Northwest.
Crop conditions and prospective
Tin yields in the four Northwest
tes are characterized as generally
ID in the monthly report of crop
ID business condition issued last
Elk by John H. Rich of the Mime
'lis Federal Reserve bank.
,auses of damage In various Sec
as have differed, the report says.
OK OF rainfall has caused the great
damage, the report adds, with
mage by hail second, followed by
sshoppers and rust. The ability
individual farmers will show up
The yields per acre, the report says
'ps on well prepared land have
| able to stand long dry spells,
lie IN neighboring fields, which
e stubbled in, the grain has dried
Fall plowed lands in parts men-
d by grasshoppers have been free
t1< ~.