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Show 00 CROP OUTLOOK IS PROMISING Chicago, Aug. 7 Th estimated crop yields, as reported to one of tho local banks, is as follows Wheat CfiO.OOO.OOO bu. Corn 2,800,000,004) bu. Oats " 1,200,000,000 bu. Barley 200,000.000 bu. Rve 3S, 300,000 bu. Cotton (bales) 13.100,000 Hay (tons) 60 OOO.OOi) Potatoes 360.000,000 bu The soil Is richly rowardlng the toll of man this year; it is making, up for the partial returns of, the past two j ears. The climatic conditions have not ben Ideal, but they have been on the whole, favorable In so great r. country as this, uniform conditions rarely exist. Even in the best of years there are some sections lesr-favored lesr-favored than others. The Improve ment over the past two ears If marked, in that there Is no section wherein all crops have failed, as they did last jear over a great part 0? the country west of the Missouri. Th weather has been less freaky than usual, and every portion of the country coun-try has some crops yielding in abundance abun-dance The production of the soil thh year, in almost all things, Is over tho average. It is a bumper year when all products are taken into consideration. consid-eration. No section will be left barren bar-ren The hanests in their abundance will yield fullv twenty per cent in weight and bulk over last year None of the breadstuffs will fall short of the need of the people most of them will have a surplus. The feedstuff', for the animals promise la,rgo yields, and consequent recession In the price-to price-to the consumer, while the quantity produced will give a larger return to the farmer than the same crops tho past two years. Man's necessitous food wheat with a serious Impairment of tho winter win-ter seeding, will be In excess of last year, when the Iosb was in the spring sowina:. Th acreage set out In the winter wheat region last year was larger than uBual but the prolonged rainy season kept the ground wet, the zero weather came with the turn of the year, froze the plant, and the heaviest loss ever sustained by the farmers of the states bordering the lakes and the Mississippi river, was the result. The coridltions which brought too much moisture to the central cen-tral west nut the drv soil of too far ther west in magnificent shape, and a winter wheat harvest of unusual si7e has been gathered In the prairie states east of the mountains. The spring wheat crop, the great crop of the northwest. Is running to harvest with the promise of the heaviest yield over the greater part of the region, that has been experienced In many years. Our correspondents show a winter wheat hare8t aroLnd 380,000,000 bushe's and a spring wheat promise of 2S0.000.000. making a total wheat harvest pf 660,000,000, which is 30,-000,000 30,-000,000 larger than that finally determined deter-mined on the revised acreage of a year ago Corn has had r- bad start this year: the cold spring delated planting and checked growth, and only within the past month has the plant made any headway. There has been a fair Increase In-crease In the acreage and the yield now promises to be an average one for the acreage. The estimates run close to 2.800,000,000 The .jleld of oats Is j;olng k record proportions, and will easllj lop the banner crop of two vears ago when 1.126,000,000 bushels were produced iu the country. The acreage was Increased In-creased largely tbrougn the abandoned winter wheat lands, and the stales that Buffered so heavy a loss on that account ac-count will more than make up the difference dif-ference in the big yield of oats. The base of the food for the lower anfmala hay is assured now at a heavier vlold than last year. It will not make a record crop, for the severe se-vere winter klllcdf a larger percentage percent-age of meadow, and the cold backward back-ward spring held the growth of all grasses In check. The production, however, will bo more than sufficient and enable the farmer to hold a reserve re-serve into the coming year, with a ifeld of 60,000.000 Ions. Since the summer set In, the brighter outlook for the grain and forage plants has been reflected In a raDld descent In price. Wheat from 11.15 a bushel declined to around 90 cents Corn from S5 cents In this Bection and around a dollar n the somh and east has had a decline of 16 cents a bushel, jnst In anticipation anticipa-tion of a gcod crop OatB dropped from 55 cents to 40 cents, and hay from $25.0,0 a ton for onllnarv Btuff has been cut in half. The smaller grains are producing on a Ilk generous scale to the oat prop and the. spring wheat. The barley bar-ley crop .promises about one-quarter lavger yicjd than last vear. or approximately approx-imately 200.000,000 bushels, nearly all the northern BtateK reporting an increase in-crease both in acreage and vJeld while reports from California show practically the same yield as last aeaBon. .Reports-Indicate ry crop of 88,- 300.000 bushels, there being some do-crcaae do-crcaae In tho central northern states and considerable increase in tho northwest and west Potatoes, ranking next to wheat for human consumption will yield 25 per cent more than a year ngo the garden gar-den vegetables are yielding plentifully. plenti-fully. The high cost of flvlng should decllno some with the larger production produc-tion of tho table supplies The fruits havo been as Irregular as ordinarily in the sectionalcharac-ter sectionalcharac-ter of their yields, and on the whoI& are greater "tho country over The peach crop of the east and north does not promise as much as a year ago. but the southern crop, which is w-ual-ly uncertain, Is very large and the northern marketR are as plentifully supplied with this luscious fruit as in the late fall months when the local crop Is coming to the market. Apples promise plentifully In thr. Ozark region, hut In the central west the yield will be small, owing to the severe winter weather and late spring. In the north Pacific states the promise prom-ise Is exceptionally bright. The berry ber-ry crop has been an ordinary one The counlrj's gioatest agricultural exploit cotton will not roach the proportions of last year. This yelr there has been too much rain in the south Atlantic and gulf states to make a big yield Texas and Oklahoma Okla-homa will probably be the only states to produce more than a year ago. and North Carolina has a promise as good as a year ago. The estimates Indicate Indi-cate a crop this year around 13,000,-UOf) 13,000,-UOf) bales at tho outside. The alue of the cotton crop, with a reduction In the number of bales, will be as grcnt to the planter as wne the big jleld of last year. This conn-try conn-try produces two-thirds of the cotton cot-ton of the world, most ears a larger proportlou Of the 16,000.000 hales raised In the previous season, 11,000 -000 bales have been taken by Europe Our local consumption Is around 0.-OOO.OOO. 0.-OOO.OOO. and tho price of the product depends upon the excess over that amount The use of cotton Is growing grow-ing very rapidly and whero a 13,000. 000 bale crop a few years ago was burdensome, It Is now regarded as undor the world s consumption The price for which the now crop will sell at the period of maximum of movement move-ment will be much moro than a vear ago rvn |
