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per cent, as compared with the seeding one year ago, when the ground 

 seeded was 2.4 per cent, greater than in 1908. The present condition 

 of the wheat crop is only 76.2 for the State, there being considerable 

 complaint as to lack of rainfall. AVheat condition, by sections, is: 

 Northeast, 78 ; Northwest, 79 ; Central, 75 ; Southwest, 77 ; Southeast, 72. 



Oats. — Missouri this year produced a "bumper" crop of oats, the 

 total yield for the State being placed at 25,071,115 bushels, as compared 

 with 18,808,576 bushels in 1909, or 16,143,862 bushels as the average 

 of the total State yield for the last seven years. The average yield of 

 oats per acre for the year 1910 was 33.2 bushels, as compared with 26.9 

 bushels last year, or a 7-year average of 22.6 bushels. Not within the 

 last decade has the State produced any other such crop of oats. At 

 the estimated farm price of 30.3 cents per bushel, the value of the 1910 

 oat crop is placed at $7,605,185. The acreage this year was 755,754, as 

 compared with 698,653 last year. The Northeast section of the State 

 leads with 243,331 acres and a total estimated yield of 8,080,199 bushels. 



In average production per acre Jasper county, in the southwest 

 section, leads with 43 bushels of oats. Other leading counties by crop 

 division sections are: Northeast, Macon and Shelby, 40 bushels each; 

 northwest, Nodaway with 42 bushels; central. Cole with 38 bushels; 

 southeast, Jefferson and Ste. Genevieve, with 40 bushels each. Knox, 

 in the northeast section, leads in total oat production with 1,812,300 

 bushels. Other section leaders are : Atchison, 818,890 bushels, in north- 

 west; Callaway, 428,468 bushels, in central; Jasper, 635,282, in south- 

 west, and Franklin, 197,505, in southeast. 



Summary. — On the following pages covered by this article are tables 

 giving acreage, yield and value of principal crops grown in Missouri in 

 1910, also some statistics as to live stock : ■ " ' 



CORN, HAY AND FORAGE. 



Table giving acreage, average yield per acre, and total product of 

 corn and hay and forage, by counties, for the year 1910: 



