MISSOURI CROP REVIEW FOR 1907. 



Taken as a whole, the year 1907 was a favorable one for the 

 farmers of Missouri. Although the season was delayed by cold, 

 wet weather during April and May, the acreage of the principal 

 crops was equal to or greater than for the previous year. The 

 yields, taken as a whole, were fairly satisfactory, and, up to the 

 time of the money stringency, in October, the average farm price 

 of all crops was better than for many years. 



Coim. — Cold, wet weather during April and May caused much 

 replanting, and a great deal of late planting. The acreage, how- 

 ever, for 1907, was 7,086,000, which is one per cent, more than 

 for the previous year. Throughout most of the southwest quarter 

 of the State a severe drought prevailed through the cultivating 

 season, and materially reduced the yield. The southwest section, 

 composed of 23 counties, shows the greatest loss. The average 

 yield in that section is only 23.8 bushels, compared with a yield in 



1906 of 32.2 bushels — a loss of about ten bushels per acre. The 

 southeast section yielded 26.3, compared with 33 bushels in 1906. 

 A number of counties, however, in the southern part of the State, 

 made a yield equal to the crop of the previous year. The northwest 

 section of the State shows the greatest increase over last year. 

 During 1906 a severe drought prevailed in that section; but in 



1907 the weather was very favorable, and the yield in that section 

 for 1907 is 39.5 bushels per acre, or nearly 5 bushels more than 

 for the previous year. Many counties in this section made an 

 average yield of 40 to 44 bushels per acre. The northeast section 

 made an average yield of 36.6 bushels, just five bushels more than 

 for the previous year. By comparison with the government report 

 for the United States it will be seen that the northern part of the 

 State produced a greater average yield than any state in the Union. 

 The total product for the State in 1907 is 232,541,324 bushels— an 

 average yield for the entire State of 32.7 bushels, which is .7 of a 

 bushel below that of 1906, or a total product of about 600,000 

 bushels less than for the previous year. 



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