The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-11
STATISTICIAN SAYS
PASTURES GREATLY
IMPROVED BY Rains
Reports Grasses 80 Per Cent as
Compared With Is for
Previous Month
GRAINS FAR BELOW NORMAL
Wheat Production Indie ted az
5,022,o0 Bushels; %
Per Cent Normal

Fargo, NJ D., July 11.-(F-Vast
improvement in the condition Of pas
lures in North Dakota was the out
standing development of June, declar-
ed Ben Kienholz, federal crop stats
tician stationed in Fargo. In monthly
report issued Tuesday on conditions
as Of July l..
He set the condition of pastures at
80 per cent as compared with Is per
cent last month.
Acreage figures for North Dakota
also were announced. Following Is
the federal estimate for the state:
Durum wheat, 837, 900 acres, indicat-
ed production Of 100000 bushels:
condition 20 per cent Of normal.
Other spring wheat: 100000 acres.
20,5l5,000 bushels, Is per cent.
Corn 1861 900 acres, 1874, 900 BUSH
els, SIS per cent.
Oats l,277, 900 acres; 12,770,0o BUSH
els, 80 per cent.
Potatoes: $4,000 acres, $780,
bushels, 81 per cent.
Tame hay: 1,157.000 acres, $4,000
tons, % per cent.
Barley: l.556,000 acres l4,O04 900
bushels, 80 per cent.
Rye: 2s8,444 acres remaining for
harvest, l.164 900 bushels. is per cent.
Flax: 36l 900 acres, 1,264 ,OO8 bushels
43 per cent.
Rye, Flax Sharply Reduced
U. S. department of agriculture
crop estimates for 1894, made public
Tuesday, disclosed the drouth had
sharply reduced the prospective yield
of flax and rye to the two leading
producing states, Minnesota and
North Dakota.
North Dakota. which produced
more than a third of the national
yield of flax in the l927-3l period.
was expected to produce less than
one fifth of the total crop this year.
The crop was estimated at 1,264. 900
bushels as against 1851 900 for the
five year average. The figure was
slightly below last years crop Of l.
GIT 900 bushels.
The estimate showed Minnesota
would raise more than half of the to-
tai flax crop for this year, with s.
306, 900 bushels of total Of 5,599. O00
The 1884 total. however. will be more
than a million bushels below last
year when the yield was 4,365, 900.
Minnesota had five year average Of
6,241 900 bushels between 1927 and
1881.
The rye report showed a similar
downward trend in the two states.
which between them produced half
the national crop between 1927 and
1881.
From total five year average Of
13. 759 900 bushels, North Dakota was
expected to slump to 1.164.000, a drop
of from one third to one seventeenth
Of the national output. Last year the
state raised 3,712,O0O bushels.
The anticipated Minnesota decline
was not so decided, yet the states
rye crop for 1884 was predicted to be
about one half of the five year aver
age. The estimated yield for this year
was placed at 3,256, 900 bushels against
6,269. 900 for 1927 to 1881 and $685.. 900
for 1888.
The law of weather averages and a
generous carryover from the nations
granary probably will enable the AAA
to leave its acreage production un-
changed for next year.
Lowest Figures in 80 Years
This was made clear by high agri-
culture department officials Wednes-
day after they had studied figures Of
the crop reporting board that show
ed an estimated production for 1894
lower than any in the past 30 years.
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