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and the percentage on red and black raspberries is the highest reported 

 for July 1 in the last 20 years." 



IOWA CROP REPORT, AUGUST 1, 1919. 



The condition of crops on August 1 was as follows: Corn, 93 per cent, 

 or 5 per cent better than the average of the last 10 years; pastures, 95 per 

 cent, or 11 per cent better than the 10-year average; potatoes, 72, or 8 

 per cent poorer than the 10-year average. 



Early thrashing reports, mainly from the central and southern parts of 

 the State, show the average yield of winter wheat to be 18.5 bushels per 

 acre, or 2.4 bushels below the 10-year average and considerably under 

 standard weight; spring wheat, 10.2 bushels, or 5.7 bushels below the 10- 

 year average and of such poor quality that much can not be milled; early 

 oats, 33.3 bushels, or 3.3 bushels below normal; late oats, 33.0 bushel^; bar- 

 ley, 24.9 bushels; rye, 16.0 bushels. 



The yield of tame hay is reported as 1.8 tons per acre; wild hay, 1.4 tons. 



The secretary of the State Horticultural Society reports the condition of 

 fruit on August 1 as follows: 



Summer apples, 55 per cent; fall apples, 44; winter apples, 27; pears, 17; 

 Americana plums, 15; Domestica plums, 13; Japanese plums, 9; grapes, 80 

 per cent of a full crop. The average of all fruits is 32.5 per cent. The 

 average of apples for the last 10 years is 46 per cent which is 4 per cent 

 higher than the crop of this year. The failure of the Americana plums 

 has reduced the general average of fruits this year 25 per cent below the 

 average of the last 10 years on this crop. Grapes are more promising, 

 being 13 per cent above the 10-year average of this crop. Apples in com- 

 mercial orchards that have been sprayed, will be a fair crop of good qual- 

 ity, while those from farm orchards that have not been cared for will be 

 poor and scarcely marketable on account of scab and worm injury. 



IOWA CROP REPORT, SEPTEMBER 1, 1919. 



Reports from township correspondents, September 1, show the average 

 condition of com to be 96 per cent, which is 12 per cent above the 10-year 

 average. It is believed that the yield will be about 42 bushels per acre, 

 which would mean a crop of about 416,000,000 bushels, an unusually large 

 percentage of which will be sound and marketable, with normal weather. 

 Iowa will easily head the list of corn-producing states this year. 



Up to September 1 the average of all reported yields of winter wheat was 

 18 bushels; spring wheat, 10; oats, 34; barley, 25; rye, 15; timothy seed, 

 4.6. Eighty-nine per cent of the threshing had been done up to September 

 1 which is 17 per cent more than normal. Much of the grain is being 

 stored on the farm, as cars are not available in which to ship it. The 

 condition of pastures is 90 per cent, or about 5 per cent above normal: 

 potatoes, 60 per cent or 10 per cent below normal. 



FINAL. CROP REPORT OF THE STATE, 1919. 



Beginning with this, the final crop report for 1919, the Iowa Weather 

 and Crop Service as a State organization and the U. S. Bureau of Crop 

 Estimates as a Federal organization working in Iowa, have combined all 



