Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1916 — Report Shows Winter Wheat Below Average. [ARTICLE]

Report Shows Winter Wheat Below Average.

American farmers, foreseeing a continued heavy demand upon them from the warring nations for wheat, planted an acreage of -that grain this fall second in point of size in the nation’s history, but poor weather conditions sent the crop into winter dormacy two per cent below the condition of last December and almost 5 per cent below the ten year average, - The fall plantings of winter wheat are reported to be 2.3 per cent greater than in the autumn of 1915, according to reports compiled in the bureau of agriculture at Washington. The low condition is almost uniformly ascribed to the lateness of planting wheat, which has prevented wheat from attaining its usual growth at this time and in some instances late seedings have not germinated,