The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-16
SPRING WHEAT
ACREAGE LESS,
YIELD BETTER
Condition of Wheat Crop on
June | Is Placed at "a Per
Cent of a Normal
MORE OATS ARE SOWN
Great Increase in Acreage
Changes in Planting In
North Dakota Told
MORE OATS ARE SOWN

North Dakota farmers have DE
creased spring wheat acreage ny
SIG. 900 acres and increased oats
acreage 10000 acres according u
tho June estimates released by D. I.
Diamond, a Grand Forks, statsu'
clan for the u. S. Bureau Of Agri-
cultural Economics.
Today the smaller wheat acreage
however. promises better turnout
than last wear, according to the re
rort which gives the crop June
condition Of "a per cent OF nor
nal and forecasts production Oh
G1,l6O,O00 bushels compared with the
December estimate OF 5S,6oo,ooo
bushels for the 1923 crop. Forecast
of the oats crop based ON June
condition of S3 per cent oil
normal is placed by the report at
5y,259,0OO bushels compared with
IA 924 600 in 1923, while the barley
crop is forecast att 25,6O3,O0 bushels
compared with 23,Sl8,OOO in 1873.
June ! condition of the rye crop
improved over that of a month ago,
being placed by the report at 80
per cent of a normal and forecasting
q production of IL 10000 bushels
compared with l0,O46,0OO bushels IN
1923 compared with the year
l9lS-l922) average production, the
June forecasts for spring wheat ana
rye indicate smaller than average
production, and for oats and barley
larger than average production.
Durum wheat as percentage VI
total spring wheat acreage Is placed
by the report at 35 per cent or y
6O3, 900 acres in 1922, while the 1924
bread wheat acreage is estimated tt
be 4,633 600 acres compared with b.,
l22, 900 acres in 1923 and 5,lSl 900 II
1922. The report follows:
Acreage Changes
"A reduction of ten per cent II
acreage of spring wheat in Nortf
Dakota is indicated by the June
survey of the U. S. Bureau OF Agrl
cultural Economics, which finds par
of this decrease to be taken up b!
an increase of Is per cent in oat
acreage and II per cent in barle!
acreage, comparison IN all cases be
ing with acreage of these crop
harvested for grain in 1923. Tn
preliminary estimate of sprin
wheat acreage is thus placed at Z,
100000 acres, oats at 2,746,000 acre
and barley at l,524,0OO acres.
percentage of all spring whea
acreage, durum wheat is estimate
to comprise 35 per cent of the tot;
compared with 3S per cent last yea
and AZ per cent in 1922.
Condition of N. d.. Crops
"Weather Bureau records indica'
the month just pass d to have Lee
the coolest May in the past
years. Killing frosts prevalle
throughout the greater part Of IN
II onth, which With low pr"cen
age of possible Sunshine and les
than normal prec pitatlon have r.
tarded all vegetable growth abe;
two weeks compared with what cou
normally be expected on June
Spring wheat, oats and barley refle
these conditions in very short Il
growth but on the other hard a.
very we'll rooted. June | conditlt
of spring wheat is placed at "a Pr
cent of normal compared with
year ago and 80 the 10 year a
eraee for June |. Oats conditl'
of June l is placed at s3 per cent
normal compared with 80 ye
ago and the 10 year average OF
June l condition of barley is place
at "a per cent of normal compar
with 80 a year ago and the 10 We
average of 90'.