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binder. Some oats has been pastured, while others is being cut 

 for hay. Timothy meadows are thin, short and weedy; condition, 

 50. Early estimate of yield per acre is .66 tons; acreage, 88; qual- 

 ity of hay, 77. Clover was of fine quality, and the first cutting a 

 good yield. The hay was saved in almost perfect condition. Con- 

 dition of the crop is 80. Estimated yield per acre of first cutting, 

 1.11 tons; quality, 92; acreage, 99; alfalfa condition is 89; esti- 

 mated yield per acre first cutting, 1.28 tons; quality, 98; acreage, 

 102. Pastures are poor, the condition for the State being 61. Cot- 

 ton acreage is placed at 90 per cent, condition 83 ; flax acreage, 90, 

 condition, 84 ; tobacco acreage, 82, condition, 75 ; broom corn acre- 

 age, 87, condition, 82; estimated acreage of cowpeas, 102. The 

 potato crop has been cut short by dry weather, the general condi- 

 tion being 66. The apple crop will fall short of early prospects; 

 condition is 62; peaches, 86. 



August 2 — The great need of at least three-fourths of the 

 State is a general rain. To do much good this must come at once. 

 Only 16 per cent of our correspondents report sufficient rainfall 

 during July, and of these most are from northwestern Missouri. 

 At Columbia the rainfall for the month was 3.38 inches; highest 

 temperature, 100; lowest, 59. Condition of corn throughout the 

 State is 78.8 by sections. By sections it is : Northeast, 70 ; north- 

 west, 84 ; central, 69 ; southwest, 56 ; southeast, 75. The drouth 

 is especially severe in a number of southwestern and southcentral 

 counties. With estimates showing 63 per cent of wheat crop 

 threshed, indications are for an average State yield of 17.2 bushels. 

 This may be increased by later returns from the thresher. Many 

 yields of 40 bushels or better are reported. The probability is that 

 the crop for the year will be something like 15,000,000 bushels 

 better than for 1912. Estimates show 6 per cent of the ground 

 plowed for new crop. Correspondents report 60 to 70 per cent of 

 oat crop cut with binders. Estimates as to yield per acre of part 

 threshed show: Northeast, 22; northwest, 31; central, 16; south- 

 west, 23 ; southeast, 19. State average, 22 bushels. The oat crop 

 in the northwest section was good, some fields making from 50 to 

 60 bushels. Pastures are very poor, being brown and bare, with 

 condition for the State at 49. Some farmers have commenced to 

 feed milch cows and other stock. Yield of timothy hay is placed at 

 0.7 tons per acre ; mixed hay, 0.9. These are preliminary estimates. 

 Prairie hay will probably not exceed 0.5 tons per acre. Acreage of 



