Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — CORN CROP IS SHORT. [ARTICLE]

CORN CROP IS SHORT.

Government Report Shown Only ; Slight Improvement. The crop reporting board of the bureau of statistics of the Department of Agriculture finds, from the reports of the correspondents and agents of the bureau, as follows: The condition of corn on Aug. 1 was 82.8, as compared with 80.2 last month, 88.0 on Aug. 1, 1906, 89.0 on Aug. 1, 1905, and a ten-year average of 83.2. The following table shows, for each of the States having 1,000,000 acres or upward in corn, the condition on Aug. 1 in each of the last two years, with the ten-year August averages: i Aug.l, Aug.l,lo-yr. 1907. 1906. average Illinois 85 82 84 lowa 78 95 85 Nebraska ..’ 82 84 83 Missouri 86 82 81 Texas v...v. 83 75 18 Kansas . 84 ,88 Z 6 Indiana 83 85 87 Georgia 90 92 87 Ohio 78 92 86 Kentucky 84 96 85 Tennessee. 85 ,95 84 Alabama 87 92 84 North Carolina . ."T 90 91 88 Arkansas 70 97 83 Mississippi 77 92 80 Indian Territory 87 92 90 Oklahoma 84 96 77 South Carolina 92 86 82 South Dakota 79 85 86 Virginia 83 95 89 Louisiana 75 83 84 Minnesota 75 85 86 Michigan 80 87 83 Wisconsin 78 89. 86 Pennsylvania 77 95 89 United States 82.8 88.0 83.2 Preliminary returns indicate a winter wheat crop of about 409,500,000 bushels, or an average of 14.6 bushels per acre, as compared with 16.7 bushels per acre last year. This preliminary estimate of the yield of winter wheat and the estimated acreage on which it is based are subject to revision and correction when the final estimates of the bureau are made next December. ; The following table shows the estimated average yield per acre in each of the eleven principal winter wheat States in 1907 and 1906, the figures for 1906 being the issued Dec. 20: —Bushels- — 1907. 1906. Kansas 11.3 15.3 Indiana 14.4 20.7 Missouri 13,2 14.8 Ohio ... 1 16.3 20.4 Nebraska 19,0 23.2 Illinois 18.0 19.5 Pennsylvania 18.6 17.7 California 15.0 17.1 Oklahoma 9.0 14.0 Texak »• 7.4 11.5 Michigan ..... .V 7.. . .\ k, ;... 14.5 13.1 The average quality of winter wheat is 90.5. The average condition of spring wheat on Aug. 1 was 79.4, as compared with 87.2 last month, 86.9 on Aug. 1, 1906, 89.2, on Aug. 1, 1905, and a ten-year average of 83.4. The average condition of the oat crop on Aug. 1 was 75.6, as compared with 81 last month, 82.8 on Aug. 1, 1906, 90.8 on Aug. 1, 1905, and'a ten-year August average of 84.9. .The average condition of barley on Aug. 1 was 84.5, against 84 , .4 one month ago, 90.3 on Aug. 1, 1906, 89.5 on Aug. 1, 1905, and a ten-year average of 86. The average condition of rye at time of harvest was 88.9, as oompared with 89.7 one month ago, .90.8 on Aug. 1, 1906, 92.6 on Aug. 1, 1905, and a ten-year average of 88.5.