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Missouri Agricultural Report. 



1909. 



Acreage. 



Average 



yield 



per 



acre, 



bushels. 



Total 



yield, 



bushels. 



Value. 



Northeast 

 Northwest 

 Central . . . 

 Southwest 

 Southeast . 

 State 



Northeast . 

 Northwest 

 Central. . . 

 Southwest 

 Southeast ■ 

 State 



38,783,278 

 61,794,925 

 35,640,443 

 37,593,785 

 23.902,515 

 197,714,946 



$22,412,122 

 36,585,579 

 19,983,594 

 21,634,061 

 14,198,688 



114,844,044 



1910. 



1,535,921 

 2,469,439 

 1,223,801 

 1,653,335 

 913,290 

 7,795.786 



$23,267,678 

 34,359,779 

 17.032,713 

 1-9,462,985 

 13,796,199 



107,919.354 



Wheat. — The wheat yield of Missouri for the year 1910 is placed at 

 22,001,890 bushels, or an average of 13.2 bushels per acre, as compared 

 with a total yield of 27,-502, 879 bushels and an average yield of 15.3 last 

 year. At the average farm price of 87.1 cents per bushel, this year's 

 crop represents a value of $19,170,143, as compared with $29,608,414, 

 the estimated value of last year's crop, the average farm price for wheat 

 being $1.07 one year ago. This year's average wheat yield per acre is 

 just one-half bushel below the 10-year average, the decided decrease in 

 total number of bushels resulting largely from the shortage in acreage 

 harvested, only 86.6 per cent., or 1,666,810 acres of the 1,923,887 acres 

 seeded in the fall of 1909 having been harvested. Much wheat was 

 winter killed or came through in such poor condition that it was not 

 thought advisable to let it stand. The greatest loss in this respect was in 

 the Central section of the State. The wheat yield by sections was 

 Northeast, 12; Northwest, 16; Central, 10; Southwest, 14; Southeast, 14. 



The leading wheat county of the State for the year 1910, in point of 

 total production, is Franklin, in the southeast crop division section, with 

 972,132 bushels. In the northeast section St. Charles leads with 779,002 

 bushels; northwest section, Platte, with 679,360 bushels; central section. 

 Cooper, with 362,700 bushels: southwest section, Jasper, with 807,012 

 bushels. The county leading in wheat production per acre is Pemiscot, 

 in the southeast section, with an average of 25 bushels. Scotland, with 

 18 bushels, leads in the northeast section ; Platte, with 22 bushels, in the 

 northwest section, and Jasper, with 18 bushels, in the southwest section. 



The 1910 fall seeding of wheat. is placed at 1,881,016 acres, or 97.8 



