The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-09-15
WHEAT CROP
FALLS BELOW
ESTIMATES
Condition Sept. / Is 2!
Million Bushels Below
Prospect

Harvest condition of North DAko
ta's spring wheat crop on September
/ placed at 40 per cent Of norma
indicates yield for the state Of *
bushels and an out-turn Of 62,O33,
600 bushels, which is 90 million bus
| hels below the prospect of month
ago and just. about half of the 1925
production of 1928, 900 bushels, &C.
cording to, estimates of the U. S
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
whose September report also shows
| moderate losses in the case Of bar.
ley and hay outlook and moderate
gains for corn, potatoes and flax
during the month. In contrast with
wheat and barley, oats at harvest was
found by the report to have held up
close to the august condition average
and with the increase in the Septem.
Der par yield the prospect for this
crop now stands at 57,9l2,00O bushels
or 1.6 million above the outlook of
month ago. The report follows,
Spring Wheat
The September !, or harvest condi-
ton of Spring wheat for the state
ave RACES 40 per cent of normal,
forecasting yield of rs bushels
per acre and comparing with 81 per
cent a year ago and the 1922 yield
per acre of 14.1 bushels. The pres
ent condition average is one of the
low ones of the state, being exceeded
but four times in the past % years,
these low years being as follows:
1900 harvest condition % and final
yield 40 bushels; 1910 harvest con-
dition 33, final yield SO; 1916 har-
vest condition IS, final yield S.;
1919 harvest condition As. Ilnai ,yle. ii
60. The present season has been
less disastrous to durum wheats than
to the bread wheats as is shown by
the fact that on September 1 the
drums averaged Sd per cent of a
normal compared with AZ for the
bread wheats and 40 the average of
all spring wheat. Separate forecasts
'of durum wheat production will not
be possible until next month when
a survey of yields per acre will be
made. The present forecast for all
spring wheat is for 62,O33, 900 bushels
compared with 65,O24, OOO~a month
ago., 123, 234 900 year ago and the
1921 average of 770ss,OO0.
Oats and Barley
Condition of oats at harvest in
North Dakota was found to be 1ela-
lively better than Spring wheat and
barley, the September / average Of
81 being but point below the Aug
ust l condition and on the basis Of
an increase Of 1.5 bushels in the
September par yield per acre COM
pared with August, the present out
look is for 57.912,O00 bushels, or 1.6
million above the August forecast,
and compares with ,76,8O4 900 the
1922 estimate, and as, 1O3, 900 the 1917
1921 average. Barley condition at
harvest was found to be 62 per cent
of a normal which indicates a pro-
duction Of 22,729,OO bushels, which
is moderate reduction from the out
look of month ago and compares
with last years estimate of 25,7O4.-
600 bushels and the 1921 average
Of 21,51s,O00.
Corn
Condition of the states corn crou
declined point from the average OF
a month ago but a metz
in the prospect results from the fact
that September par yield is. 1.5 bus
hels above that Of August /. The
present condition of Sc per cent Of q
normal is the highest September corr
condition in the past % years record
and forecasts at 22,729,O 900 bushels
the biggest corn crop in the history
OF the state, if average conditions
prevail until harvest. The 1922 cror
was 100000 and the 1921 aver.
age IL ,956,000 bushels.
Flax
North Dakota's Flax crop on Sep
tember l was found to have a condi
ton average of 70 per cent of nor
NAL indicating an acre. yield of T.,
bushels and production on thi,
years increased acreage of 1924 ,OO(
bushels. This forecast is moderated
larger thanN the outlook of month
ago due to a slight increase in tn,
tpar yield for September which NOR,
than offset q decline of points il
the crops condition. The presen
forecast compares with 6,460, 900 bus
hels estimated to have been grow
last year on somewhat less than hal
of the present acreage.
Hay
Tame Hay crops in North Dakot
on September were found to aver
age "a per cent of a normal forecast
ing production Of I. 439,00O tons. Will,
Hay averaged 50 per cent of a, nor
NAL indicating production Of 1870
1 Potatoes
i North Dakota potato crop >deciin
ed points from the condition aver
age Of a. month ago and on Septsm
Der l was found to- be n percen
Of normal. An increase Of g. hui
hels in the par for September NOR
thanl offset this decline and the pr<
sent outlook for 1875. 900 abushel
II moderately larger than III fore
cast 1T . mQnth ago and compare
with 1880. 900 bushels the. 1922 ei
innate and 1924 900 the 1917-2l ave1
age. M
DEMPSEY WINS
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