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Show mm cw i Drought Causes Heavy Loss I in Estimated Yield; Potato I Crop Also Suffers. I FIGURES ON DECREASE Spring and Winter Wheat Promises to Reach New I High Record. "WASHINGTON, Sept 0. An enormous loss In the prospective production of corn and indications qt Lho biggest wheat crop ever produced were the feature of the government's September crop report, Is-i Is-i sued this afternoon. Hot weather and drought In a number of the principal corn growing- states in the month ending September I caused a deterioration of corn which experts cal-I cal-I culate has resulted in the loss of 321,- 000,000 bushels, reducing the corn crop cstlmntc to "ol, 000,000 bushels. This destructive de-structive crop weather caused a loss of about 300,000,000 bushels In July and the August loss brought the total up to 621,-000,000 621,-000,000 bushels since the first estimates of the corn crop prospects were made by lho government. I Texas alone of the- six greatest corn i crowing states held her own in August. Nebraska was hardest hit, the deteriora- tlon there amounting to 30 per cent, I bringing the condition bf the crop to 3i per cent of normal. Tho loss in Missouri Mis-souri was 29 per cent, the crop being -11 per cent of normal. Kansas reported a condition of 10 per cent, of normal, the lowcot ever recorded, and a. loss of 20 per cent in tho month; Illinois reported a condition of 62 per cent, a loss of 10 per cent; Iowa reported 70 per cent, a loss of 9 per cent: Oklahoma, 39 per cent, a loss of 5 per cent. Bountiful Wheat Crop. Never before In the history of the coun- ! try has there been such a bountiful j wheat harvest as has been gathered this year. This was due principally to the bumper" crop of winter wheat. Today's government estimate of the spring wheat crop shewed incroused prospects for that crop, making tho total production 243,-000,000 243,-000,000 bushels,' or an Increase of 4.3 rer cent over the August estimate. This Increase In-crease brought the estimate of the total wheat crop of tho country to 754,000,000 bushels, or 6.000,000 bushels more than the great record crop of 1901. Oats prospects, too, showed an Increase of 3.7 per cent, as a result of tho conditions condi-tions existing in August and the crop now Is estimated at 1,066,000,000 bushels, or 3S.000.000 bushels more than predicted In-August. Weather conditions during August causod deterioration which Is estimated to have resulted In the loss of 14,000.000 bushels of potatoes. 35.000,000 pounds of tobacco and 1.000,000 tons of hay. Barley, Bar-ley, fUix and rice seem to have escaped 'damaging weather. Utile relief from the continued heat and rought is called out by the weather bureau, which reported today that tho week since the crop report was taken was very generally one of tho warmest ever known In the corn growing slates, that little beneficial rain had fallen and that "the severe drought continued very general. Report in Detail. Following Is the detailed report: Corn Condition, 65.1 per cent of a normal: Indicated yield, 22 bushels per aero: estimated total production, 2,551,-000,000 2,551,-000,000 bushels. Spring wheat Condition, 75.;' per cent; vleld. 13 bushels per acre; production, 2K'.. 000,000 bushels. Oats Condition 74 per cent: yield. 27 bushels per acre; production, 1.0CC, 000,000 bushels. Uarley Condition. 73.1 per cent; yield, 23.2 bushels per aero; production, 16S,-000,000 16S,-000,000 bushels. Buckwheat Condition, 75.1 per cent; vied, 1S.2 bushels per acre; production, 15,000,000 bushels. White potatoes Condition, 60.9 per cent; yield, 8S.1 bushels per acre; production, pro-duction, 325.000.000 bushels. Tobacco Condition, 71.5 per cent; yield. 75'J pounds per acre; production, SGI. 000,000 pounds. Flax Condition. 71.9 per cent: yield. S.I bushels per acre; production, 20,000 pounds. Rice Condition. SS per cent; yield, 32.S bushels per acre; production, 27,000,000 bushels. Hay Preliminary estimated of production. produc-tion. CC.000,000 tons; quality, 91.7 per cent. Apples Condition, 17.7 per cent. The condition of corn on September 1 and of oats and spring wheat at the time of harvest by states follows: Corn. 10-year 1913. 1912. average. Illinois 62 S5 Si Iowa 76 93 SI Nebraska 37 SO 78 Kansas 10 74 70 Missouri 41 S4 SO Texas MS 75 74 Oklahoma 39 64 69 Indiana SI So S4 Georgia S7 75 S7 Ohio V. SI So S2 Kentucky ...... 59 S7 SG Tennessee G5 S2 S6 Alabama 7S S2 SS Mississippi SI SI 85 Ndfth Carolina... 87 75 84 South Dakota . . . 7S 87 S4 Arkansas 71 SO 52 Minnesota f5 82 S3 South Carolina . . St 77 88 Virginia . 85 74 85 Louisiana S5 81 84 Michigan SO .75 80 Wisconsin 94 'SO 82 Pennsylvania ... SI 80 S3 Oats. 10-year 1913 1912. average. Iowa S3 103 81 Illinois 53 98 78 Minnesota 87 96 81 Wisconsin' ... ... 90 91 83 Nebraska 70 76 72 North iDakota ... 72 97 77 Kansas 54 84 65 Ohio 72 9S 82 Indiana 51 9S 7S South Dakota 70 . 87 80 Michigan 78 87 jSl New York 86 73 85 Missouri 56 93 73 Pennsylvania. ... S3 S7 S6 Spring Wheat. 10 -year 1913 391.2. average. North Dakota. ... 70 95 72 Minnesota 88 89 79 South Dakota. ... 65 85 76 Washington .... 82 86 SO |