The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1948-08-19
Predict Lurgest
Crops in 81 :.
|Yedrs in Montunu

NTUp pIOQuCGlOIl LII montana
this season will be the greatest
for 81 years, the Bureau of Ag-
r%icultural Economics predicted
this week. !.
The over all out-put per acre
promises to exceed that of 1943
and will nearly equal the OUT
standing year of 1927. =
Heavy yields are not in sight
for winter wheat, oats, pota-.
toes, dry beans, dry peas, sugar
beets and hay. Better than.
average yields are indicated for
spring wheat, barley, rye and:
I flax seed. y
Crop prospects frightened dur
ing July because of favorable
growing weather. Damage in
central and eastern portions
from heat, hail and insects was
more than offset by adequate.
supplies of moisture and low
temperatures.
Ripening grains filled well
and the above normal rainfall
kept dry land hays and grasses
growing.
The Aug. / forecast places all
wheat at 80, 1904 900 bushels. This
is A per cent greater than last
year, Sc per cent more than the
average for the preceding de-
cade and IA per cent above the
| previous record crop of 8 ,713.-
900 bushels in 1927. The gain
from the July / forecast was
about eight and a third million
bushels. Winter wheat will be
approximately $685. 900 bus
hels, the largest of record.
Average yield per acre is FORE
cast at $50 bushels. the high
est since 1915. Spring wheat
output is estimated at 54,372,-
900 bushels from an average
/ yield per acre of IT'S bushels.
Last year Al .426, 900 bushels were
produced with a per acre yield
of 40 bushels. The LARGEST
spring wheat crop was in 1927,
when 68,273, 900 bushels were
harvested. .
Barley is forecast at 24,219,0 900
bushels, a IS per cent increase
over last years crop, the pre-
vious record. This grain has be-
come more important crop in
Montana since 1871, with seed
ings increased nearly four-fold
during the seven year period.
The corn and oats crops are
indicated to be five and IT per
cent respectively above last
years harveSts and rye is only
three per cent below 1948.
Planted on a sharply reduced
acreage, flaxSeed is expected to
! produce 100000 bushels compar-
ed with 100000 bushels last
year. Yield per acre, estimated
at rs bushels, tops the 1917
yield by Is bushels. Potato pro-
duction this year is expected to
exceed the average by IL per
cent and the dry bean crop is
estimated to be the largest
since the high wartime pro-
duction of 1913.
The per acre yield of dry peas
has reached a record high level,
but very small paintings have
reduced the production to the
lowest quantity of record since
1928. DIE
Sugar beets in some western
localities got a poor start from
Indictment spring weather and
inadequate labor for thinning
and hoeing. Beet paintings were
reduced this wear and the per
acre yield is now placed slight
ly below average.
All kinds Of hay have grown
well and first cuttings of alfal-
ia were heavy. Good supplies of
moisture during July produce
some second cuttings of dry
land alfalfa in the central por-
tons of the state. Montana
farmers are expecting to har-
vest the largest crop of alfalfa
| since 1882. Total production of
all hay is forecast at 100000
tons, which is IA per cent larger
than last year and IL per cent
larger than the average pro-
duction for the last 10 years.