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Show CROP VALUE IS mmjujE Wheat Makes an Excellent Showing in Idaho Despite Severe Drought. Special to The Tribune. POCATELLO, Idaho, Oct. 13. Idaho's wheat crop for the year liUt is worth S40.0u0.000, according to the October 1 estimate, just made" public by Julius H. Jacobsen, representative of the bureau of crop estimates of the United States department of agriculture. Mr. Jacob-sen Jacob-sen estimated the wheat yield at 17,t.04,-000 17,t.04,-000 bushels, grown on an estimated acre age of y 69, 000 acres, with an average yield of 1S.1 bushels to the acre. Last vear's average yield was 21.3 bushels 'yer acre; Z.i In 1916 and IS in 1915. the highest record attained in the history of the state. On irrigated tracts the average yield of spring wheat for the past year was 26 to 36 bushels per acre. Maximum yields reported went as high as ?0 to 70 bushels. Idaho farms produced well for a dry-season, dry-season, when the country's total is taken Into consideration. The estimated yield for the United States this year is 9!-471,000 9!-471,000 bushels, being produced on 71,-E-6.oro acres, with an average yield of 12. S bushels per acre. Oats are not showing up so well. The average -yield estimated October 1 is US bushels per acre, which, together with the total production, is the lowest for ten vears. The crop was estimated the first of the month at 7,700,000 bushels, harvested from 220.000 acres. The effect ef-fect of the drought tho past season is plainly seen when compared with 19 IS in regard to oats, when the total yield was JMS0.000 bushels and an average of 40 bushels per acre. Potatoes indicated 72 per cent of normal nor-mal condition on October 1 and estimated number of carloads 6600, compared with a movement of 7723 cars in 191S. In summing up the condition of the potato harvest, the report states that the Idaho Falls district, the most important section sec-tion in the state, which last year shipped 2193 cars, drooped down to 69 per cent of normal condition. This section suffered most from the water shorgc The potato industrv in the Caldwell district has developed from 1ST cars in 1916-17 to an estimated shipment ship-ment of from 1100 to 1200 cars this sea-eon, sea-eon, with a 92 per cent of normal vield. Twin Fails, another important potato ee?tion with a total shipment last year of 1145 cars, drops down to a 71 per cent estimated harvest. Apples are showing up we'l. with an estimated crop of 4"00 cars. High prices prevail in commercial districts, ranging from SI. 50 to $2 a box. The report estimates esti-mates the northwestern production of apples at 0,66. r00 boxes, compared with 2i.S09.OOO in ISIS, or an increase of 41.1 per cent. The alfalfa seed crop estlmato shows a considerable loss over last year. The acreage is estimated at 560 compared with 5500 in 151S. The average yield is five busheis per acre against six last year. |
