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Show CROPS OF NATION RUN INTO BILLIONS Five Leading Grain Crops of the Country Surpasses Last Year's Production By Several Million Bushels. lWTIMATKl) Y1KLDH Crop Uushels Wheal 1,001,000.000 Cm 2.9S1.040.000 Onta 1 12.000.000 in u.700,00 lnrle . 221,000.000 Itn) tonn 78,900.000 Clton, halts . 10.600.000 The production of thi five lending gram i mi of the cotintr) surtwtsses lnt enrn b over H hundred million bushels, nml In the nggregnte In the largest in thf rountr) s history, ihw-slld) ihw-slld) not In Dip average leld prr hi re hut In kfom nmniinl. (ho In rmM in nrr-nKr kIvIiik thp unumml rn-onl In irmliirlln. nrrordinit to thp Hiiniml rt luillrlln prvonrrri lt we, k l) the Continental nnd t'ommcr- In I Nnllonnl llnnk of t'tih-nKo The rummer linnet! however, hne heen attended with Krent dlfflrull) In man) etion on nct-ount of frequent rnliw. Itlllloii Itii-hd WIhniI Crop. I or the find time In the eountrn hlRlor the vhent rrop toM a hllllon liimhelK HeHirtM kIhih n total noro-hko noro-hko of (9,460,000 In whent, n Knln of nentl ,noo ooo nre-i iiiw Inut ywir The lelil l Klen UK AM I.OOJ.000,000 luehel roiiitnrliiK with the flnnl ko ernmetit flKUren for lnt yenr of 891,-ooo 891,-ooo lion hueheln on the inller nrn The nveniKe yield er nrre M nhout the mine Inet yrar, the Incron-o lie-IIIK lie-IIIK In the nereHRe Winter MlMml XehU n total of 3AOinA huehet nml uprlHK when! IIhroh.ooo ItneheV. There In n hm of two nml n hnlf m-hf-l on the nternite leld of winter Hhent nnd n tcnln of tx luihebt per hi re In the uprlMK whent renion I Met eNrx rop of HM.ftAM) h-iheU h-iheU Kn nn xMirtnhle eurpluft of 310 000 00 It l.imlieU nml nt the liluheet price nt H hli'h whent Imrt len raid elm r the nenenn of U'-H Thin )nr, with n mippl f the old rrop of J.-000 J.-000 000 liiiehel-t lenft, the prenent prop n Uet enrn IihiiIh, would prntlde nn PXpoHHhle mirplux of IS 000,000 hll-nhitu hll-nhitu 'of foiir-rifthn of I lie total taken l tin lmMirlloK i-onntrlen In III een-eon een-eon whli h ended with Almost tut The pountr Id therefore In n mmUIoii to feed nil Kuroe If It hhoiild heroine noiOMHrj loweer, the eondltlonit whhh pie thin i-oiintr lln hlK irop opemtid In ( HiiHiU to rnleo Ita ex portiihle Mirplim inO.OOO 000 liuxheln. nml with n Inrxe mi foreenut In Aue-tntllii Aue-tntllii the flmt eoiinlD of (he Hon tin m lleinlnphere to hnneet the prenent pren-ent neHKon the niippllee for Kurope nre more tlmn umple nnd there lx no reneon to expett the InrKe return renllied Hmiii llie imp of the pr loim eon eon The hlxhcr poet of whent Inet era- non Hffected our own people nn well UN Ihoee of Hurnpe. nnd while the nuini't of the exporttM wirplun flKtired more InrKelt In the fun-Inn trade tlmn t tut t of mi) other pnxliut of the iiiun tr the IiIkIi prUe nt home nt it prl od when work wnn mnrre wr lulled hfHll iiMin the hlllk of the tMipiiln tlon The lnre i roH In the export Iiik lountrlen thin enr nnenre lienor hrend h riiliii tlon In the .-out of th line nml n Inrger exiiendltun for tin pnnhi tn of the mnnufnitiirere Tor the flmt time In nmin enrn tin Koiith midid i onuldernlile Innd to whent Uiriso OiiIm nml Com Crop. Tin onta i mp In the neeond lrmt of rn-ord The nernK.- per acre In thlrt-foiir hunheln. nnd entlmnten Kle n total nerent.' hnrventeil or reiub for hnnent of J9.MO.000, hih In SI 1,000 mre nmler the amount re- ' ported needed h) the HRrleoltuml de , pnrtment nt WiinliliiKton The crop In entlllliiti d nt I 112.000,000 Ininhel ' or 310,000 000 lumhelft oer thnt of , luttt enr KxiennUt rnln linn affrnt- d qiiullO more tlmn iiinntlt), ' Com the Kreut rop of the ooiin- , to In ntlll In the mukliiB Tho cild weutlxr which ileelnped late In the ' nprliuc when the plnntlnK f the trop nt In. not onlj dluel openitlonn. ' Imt dwnrfed enrl growth The win- tlnuoun rnlim of Mm -nil Juno added to the dlfflciiltlen atlendlpK the onro of tho KrowliiK trop, and the mid- mimmer temperature, without nn , warm weather exiept In the t xtreme Bouth, hnn verloim!) Interefond with Central Htaten. thmik'h thero are nee. , tlonn where the overflow of ntreonm c-niined nurh Injuo CultUntlon Ih nut an perfect nn uniiul, and thin may, hi-, hi-, ter on, nffeit the leld In the nor- ihtrn portion of the helt. tho pro.petta are not er hrluht. and It will take , a Ionic and warm autumn to mature the iron The pro-pect In for a crop ' of " 98J.000.000 hunheln on an area of . 110 321.000 ncren which U 1000,000 airen In exceiw of that ruporteil 1 tn isoirnment torreiltondenta at tin outnet of the nummer On thin acre. bk the entlmate In for a irop of 310.- 000,000 more than Inut r, whhn Mould kU tho xeoond larBent irop of reiord The uncertainty of tha final jleld l In the weather durlmc the fall monthn , (iixnl Mildn of Smnll Oniln. Harle ha mutalned Ita record with an estimated yield of ".M0.O0O lm- nluln oomparlnK with 191.000.000 l.u. ahcln lant ear Of tho minor eraln re han heen an prominent an whent In the worhl'n prlio market, nnd the crop thin ear In an iollent one The ' aorenBO In atwajn nmall In thin ooun-' ooun-' try hccauBO of tho llBht requirement!., L and lant ear wan the flmt that an ex- port demund developed I armern, V however, made very Uttlo effort to L Increase the acreage, the crop helng estimated at 45.700,000 huiheU as BBalmt 42,700,000 huiheU lant year. Both the ncrengp and tho jleld of hn were larger thin eeanon than Intt The entlmnlen In for 73.917.000 tonn comiwrlnic with 70.071,000 tonn lant car The fornKP cropn of tho nernl arid reKlonn of the Went were neer no good an thin ear The total cotton export nt the end of the neneon AliRtint Int were onlj 700,000 Imlen lew) than the prexloun enr hut the crop having been In ox-eenn ox-eenn of 16,000,000 Iwten the Hotlth hnn nedrlj 2 000,000 bnlen to enrry Into thin eennon The nren In cotton wnn turtnlted 16 per cent, nnd the line nf fertllltern cut In hnlf, with the reeiilt that thp prenent outlook In for a crop nrotind IOtOO.000 Iwten The continuance of the war will maintain Inut epamin n demand, nnd with the Mb Iom In Meld, tho Koiith In apt to find n fair price for Itn produce before the marketing ht half comple ted to Other Croi. Other ropn than the lending onen mentioned above promlne on the nv-nge, nv-nge, evellent jleldn In tienrl all eec tlonn I'otntoen nre Kenernlb ntntrd to be n good crop There neemn to be an abundance of fruit, taking all the fruit growing neetlonn In the aggro gate I'neliiren hnvc nevr Ixen better and the dlrmen art pronprrlng Sugar heeta are mid In home of the heel growing region to be the beet i nip vrr rained |
