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Show EDITH'S com October Weather Conditions Condi-tions Result in Thirty Million Mil-lion Bushels Extra. Quality This Year Is Reported Re-ported More Than Ten Points Higher. WASHINGTON. Dot. 8. October weather conditions resulted in an increase- of oO, 000,000 bushels tn the country's coun-try's crop of corn. The department of agriculture's N6vember crop report today to-day placed the- preliminary estimate of production at 2,719. 19$, 000 bushels. "While the crop is smaller In size than last year's, its fjpd value is materially greater be- ce the quality this year Is more than ;-len points higher. f With a wheal crop of about 910.000,000 bushels, which Is some 100.000.000 bushels more than the average of the last five years, and a large crop of buckwheat, rye, rice, beans, potatoes, onions and cabbage, cab-bage, the country's crops this year have been bountiful. The crop of tobacco Is a record one by 70,000,000 pounds', being 1,266,686,000 pounds this year. Other Crop Productions. Preliminary estimates of production of other crops follow : Buckwheat, 18,370,- 000 bushels; potatoes, 390,101,000; sweet potatoes, 88,114.000; tobacco, 1.266,686,000 pounds; flaxseed, 14,646,000 bushels; pears, 10.342.000; apples, 197,360,000; sugar beets, C, 549,000 tons. Other details of the report are; ' Weight per measured, bushel: Wheat, 5S.S pounds; oats, 33.2; barley, 46.9. Stocks of old corn on farms November 1 were 400.000 bushels, compared, with 34,44S.OOO last year. Kafirs, 61,1S2,000 bushels; cranberries. 374.000 barrels; onions. 13.43S.000 bushels; cabbage, 565,000 tons; sorghum syrup, 89,757,000 gallons; clover seed, 1,24S,000 bushels; peanuts, 52,617,000 bushels. Ginning of Cotton. Motion ginned prior to November 1, the census bureau today announced, amounted lo 7.793,615 bales, including 120.343 round' bales, and 15.7S0 bales of sea island. Ginnings to that rlate last year were 7.1 So. ITS bals, including 132.907 round bales, and 57,560 bales of sea Island. Ginnings by states: Alabama, 55,061.; Arizona, 9."65; Arkansas, 537,605; Cali-1 Cali-1 fornfa, 1S.404: Florida. 16,111: Georgia, 1.473.090? Louisiana, 359.644; Mississippi, KS.471; Missouri, 25.094; North Carolina, 414.478: Oklahoma, 39S.901: South Carolina. Caro-lina. 916,040; Tennessee, 152.144; Texas, 2,168,495; Virginia, 6307; all other states, 1 1835. Sea island ginnings bv states: Florida, 6290; Georgia, 7S60; South Carolina, 1630. Good October Weatjier. A summary of l tie report by the bureau qLod pyt'iti-iU'K says: r ' ''' ;,r:"-'i i'lKtl weather of October rTu the main agricultural areas of the J conn try has resulted in an increase or the Indicated corn crop lv about 30,000,- Itnn bxnshe's, with a quality of 85.G, com-A. com-A. pared'' with 75.2 last year and S2 S aver-Br'V aver-Br'V -p- The results in the southwest and fei Ajifc, fa r west are not up to expectations. Hwe the absolute number of bushels is 'xy ST pcl- cent that of last year, the foml value, because, of the higher quality, is a much larger proportion. The absolute abso-lute production Is only a fraction of 1 per cent be'o0" the five-year average. The flock of last year's corn remaining on farms is more than three times the amount of old corn on hand a year ago and In excess of the usual. "Buckwheat was damaged by early frost. lowering good earMer prospects of yield by about 6 per cent, but leaving this crop still 5 per cent in excess of last year and 20 per cent above the aver-ago. aver-ago. "Potato yields now reported confirm the earlier estimates. The summer droughts resulted In small size and reduced yields In the main producing areas. The crop now estimated Is 11 per cent below the enormous crop of last year, and is about 40 ner cent above the five-year average. "Tobacco, w ith a large 'acreage, has a ylold per acre materially above average and a total production of 70,000.000 Pounds above last year, which furnished the largest previous crop of record. "The rice crop is about 15 per cent greater than last year, almost 20 per cent r-.o-o beans: onions, 9 per cent more; labbasre, IS per cent, more, and the com-" com-" ' :h I crop of apples. 11 per cent more. K -nw beets are almost 10 per cent more : id cane for sugar about 25 per cent more, "Sorghum syrup, relatively instgnifi- Mit. Is 13 per cent less. Kaffir corn is "rr cent less and peanuts 6 per cent : : |
