616 Missouri Agricultnral Report. 



Carroll, Harrison, Lafayette, Livingston, Callaway and Cass each 

 produced more than 4,000,000 bushels. These twelve counties 

 together grew one-fourth as much corn as the entire state of Indi- 

 ana, practically the same as either Michigan or Wisconsin, more 

 than one-fourth as much as either Kansas or Nebraska, one-third as 

 much as the entire state of Texas, one-half as much as Oklahoma, 

 and more than all Arkansas. The combined output of corn grown 

 in twenty states of the Union is less than that of these dozen Mis- 

 souri counties. One Missouri county alone — Saline — grew 

 6,413,364 bushels of corn. But two states in the Union — Iowa and 

 Illinois — grew as much corn in 1912 as did Missouri. Kansas with 

 three-quarters of a million acres less in corn, fell almost fifty million 

 bushels short of the Missouri total, so much better is our yield per 

 acre. 



Of the Missouri corn crop for the present year 72 per cent is 

 now in the crib, so favorable has been the season. The quality of 

 the corn is excellent, being 87 for the State. 



Wheat— The winter of 1911-12 was an unfavorable one for 

 wheat in Missouri. In many counties, especially in the Northeast 

 section of- the State, much wheat was winter killed, so that the 

 acreage harvested was only about 75 per cent of that seeded. The 

 crop for the present year, harvested from 1,708,999 acres, totaled 

 21,546,720 bushels, worth at 90.2 cents per bushels, $19,411,869. 

 The State yield per acre was 12.6 bushels, with section yields as fol- 

 lows: Northeast, 10.6; Northwest, 19.5; Central, 13.1; Southwest, 

 11; Southeast, 8.7. Counties producing more than half a million 

 bushels each are: Lincoln, 579,612; St. Charles, 640,926; Buchan- 

 an, 542,476; Carroll 845,964; Jackson, 591,591; Lafayette, 863,640; 

 Platte, 908,293; Cooper, 625,456; Saline, 869,248; Franklin, 572,- 

 526; St. Louis, 504,427. 



The present wheat acreage is 2,023,330. This is but 93.2 per 

 cent of the original acreage seeded during the fall of 1911, but is 

 considerably larger than the acreage actually harvested during the 

 year 1912. The present wheat crop as compared with the acreage 

 seeded one year ago is as follows : Northeast, 96.7 per cent; North- 

 west, 99.4; Central, 91.4; Southwest, 89.3; Southeast, 90.8. The 

 condition of the growing crop is 91. 



Oats — The Missouri oat crop for the year 1912 was a good 

 one. The total yield from 940,314 acres was 29,488,490, an aver- 

 age of 32.8 bushels per acre. The oat crop, at 32.8 cents per bushel, 

 represents a value of $9,632,205, if sold on the market. If fed to 



