The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-03-13
WHEAT PERCENTAGE
STORED IS GREATER
BUT NOT BUSHELACE
Reduced Crop Of Last Year Re-
sponsible for Smaller
Volume UnsoId
MUCH CORN IS UNSTABLE
Feed Grains Also Below Normal
HoIdover Because Of Re-
duced Harvestings
MUCH CORN IS UNSTABLE

Grand Forks. N. D.. Mar. 13.-Esti-
mated stocks of all grains On North
Dakota farms. March /. were below
farm stocks year ago and below
the five-year average stocks. accord
ing to the March l crop report Of Ben
kienholz, the federal agricultural
Statistician for North Dakota. Total
stocks Of corn. wheat, oats. barley and
rye are estimated to be 1868 900
bushels below the 1929 stocks and
9,790. GOO bushels below the five-year-
average. Only IS per cent Of the 1929
North Dakota ORR crop is estimated
to be of merchantable quality as COM
pared with 40 per cent of the 1928
crop. and a l0-year average OF 53.2
per cent.
Wheat stocks on farms. although
representing a slightly larger per-
centage of the previous years crop.
are over IL million bushels below the
stocks on farms one year ago. The
greatly reduced crop in 1929 is ac-
countable for this drop. Reporters
estimate that 80 per cent of the crop
will be shipped out of the county
where grown, compared with an esti-
mate of 80 per cent last year.
Stocks of all feed grains are below
average because of the generally
short production in 1929 and the
necessity for prolonged and continue
feeding Of livestock during the
winter, which has drawn heavily on
available supplies.
Corn stocks represent 8 per cent OF
the 1929 production or 1911. 900
bushels. on March l. 1929. Very little
of the corr crop is shipped out OF
the county where grown, reporters es-
timating about l per cent.
Smaller Feed Grain Stocks
Oats stocks Oh farms March ! rep
resent 80 per cent of the 1929 pro-
duction or II ,488, 900 bushels. On
March l Of last year, $780,
600 bushels remained on farms
or A per cent of the previous years
crop. Estimated shipments of oats
from county where grown dropped
from IA per cent last year to 8 per
cent this year. Barley stocks on
March l of this year are estimated to
be 10.5O1. GOO bushels OF % per cent
of the 1929 production as compared
with 1886. 900 bushels last year, or
80 per cent of the 1928 crop. Ship
ments out of county arc estimated at
30 per cent compared with As per cent
last year.
Rye stocks OF 100000 bushels rep
resent II per cent of the 1929 pro-
duction as compared with 1.271 900
bushels on March l. 1929, representing
10 per cent OF the 1928 production.
Seventy-five per cent of the 1929 rye
crop, it is estimated. will be shipped
out of the county where grown COM
pared with 81 per cent of the 1928
crop.
For tho United States
Seventy-seven per cent of the 1929
corn crop, it is estimated by the de-
partment, is Of merchantable quality
as compared with 80 per cent of the
1928 and 500 per cent Of the 1O-year
average. Estimated shipments Of each
crop out of county where grown fall
considerably below last years ship
ments. Corn shipments represent 1863
per cent Of the previous crop, COM
pared with 1871 per cent one year ago;
wheat, 69.6 per cent, compared with
1875; oats. POI per cent, compared
with 2l.4: barley, 26.8 per cent, COM
pared with 33.l; and rye, 49.1 per
cent, compared with 56.8.