Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-09-14


% help increase crop yield.
Pacific Northwest. About $4,000
acres are expected to be harvested,
with yield indicated at 1,074 pounds
per acre, below 1914 and 10-year
average.
Soybeans - A total of Is, 283 900
acres grown alone for all purposes
appears to be about 46 per cent
larger than the l0-year average.
Eighty-three per cent is in the north
central states. Indications are that
about 10,392,000 acres will be har-
vested for beans, only 3 per cent
less than the 1943 record. 1t is still
too early for conclusive production
forecasts. But August l conditions
point to a crop of 1873, 284, 900 BUSH
els.
Potatoes - A crop of record pro-
portions is indicated for 1945-some
420, 206, 900 bushels. Only in 1913 and
1928 has the production of potatoes
exceeded the crop now in prospect.
Acre yield may set a new record,
if expectations of 147.7 bushels per
acre for the United States are real
lied. The previous high for yield
was 1896 bushels in 1913. Total indi-
Gated acreage for harvest is 1885,
600, Slightly below last year and
about 10000 acres less than the
1934-43 average.
Sweet Potatoes - Fewer sweet
potatoes are in view, about II per
cent less than the 1914 crop. Acre
age is down but yield per acre of
94.3 bushels is expected to be the
highest since 1929. Total production
in prospect is 1888, 900 bushels.
Sugar Beets - Expansion of plant
ings to 100000 acres, almost %
per cent over 1914, carries an esti-
mated production of g, 1882, 900 tons at
the indicated national average of
1871 tons of beets per acre. Al
though the acreage is IL per cent
less than the 193443 average,
higher than average yield per
acre is expected to put total pro-
duction at only z per cent below the
10-year average. Sugar recovery of
oooot A,ooo,ooo toiio 10 plCdlStSo.
Sugar cane - Acreage for sugar
and seed is up about 2 per cent over
1914 for total of 302,700 acres, S
per cent more than the 1934-43
average. Louisiana, which normal
ly accounts for about 80 per cent of
the national acreage, increased l
per cent over last year and Flor
ida ID per cent. Production of sugar
cane for sugar and seed is indicated
at 6,976,000 tons, about IL per cent
above the 1914 total tonnage.
Fruit - Although the apple crop
appears to be headed for a record
low production, the 1945 peach crop
is setting record high with an esti-
mated 82,650, 1000 bushels, 6 per cent
greater than the peak harvest of
1881. A good pear crop is also in
prospect, some 33,162,O0O bushels.
The three Pacific Coast states, where
about three-fourths of the nations
pears are usually grown, expect a
record combined production of 49,
OBJ, 1000 bushels - II per cent more
than last year and 80 per cent above
average. The cherry crop is down
considerably from last years level,
and the apricot pick is estimated at
only about 2l0,500 tons compared
with last years record crop of 324,-
600 tons. A prune crop of some 152,-
600 tons (fresh basis) is indicated
from Washington, Idaho and Ore
gon. Grape production appears to be
a little above last year with an indi-
Gated pick of 1901 300 tons, of which
some 2,598,000 tons will come from
California.
Hay - Second largest hay crop
ever produced in the u. S. is ex-
pected this year - total produc-
ton of all tame and wild hay vari-
cites of about 104, 1000, 900 tons. Only
1912 has seen more hay cut on
American farms. A probable 49,
600, 900 tons carried over from crops
OF previous years added to the 1945
production would provide supply of
10000, 900 tons.
Flaxseed - Indications are that
a faxseed crop over half again as
large as the average for 1934-43 will
be harvested in 1915, a total of 3d.
$4,000 bushels. This would be A per
cent greater than the 1914 crop. Nine
of the II states for which fiaxseed
acreages have been estimated show
increases over 1914, ranging from /
per cent in Iowa to 81 per cent in
Texas. In the four major fax states
= Minnesota, North Dakota, South
Dakota and Montana - where an