562 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Oats. — Area sown, 4,9779,800 acres, which is nearly the same as the 

 acreage sown in 1915, there being only 5,000 acres less this year than 

 last year. The average condition is 94, compared with 98 per cent on 

 the same date last year. 



Wheat. — The area oi£ winter wheat is 448,945 acres, or 138,000 acres 

 less than in 1915. Spring wheat, 143,000 acres, or 5,000 acres less than 

 last year. The estimated condition of winter wheat is 80 per cent and 

 spring wheat 92 per cent, as compared with 97 and 96 per cent last year. 



Barley. — Acreage sown, 197,000 acres; decrease, 5,700 acres; condi- 

 tion, 95 per cent; condition last year was 97 per cent. 



Rye.— Acreage, 55,700; condition, 93 per cent. 



Flax. — Acreage, 5,400; condition, 90 per cent. 



Hay. — Acreage of tame and wild hay, 3,748,000 acres; condition, 96 

 per cent. 



Alfalfa. — Acreage, 155,000; increase, 2,000 acres. 



Pastures. — Acreage, 9,717,200; increase, 54,700 acres; condition, 100 

 per cent. 



Potatoes. — Acreage, 101,400; increase, 1,800 acres; condition, 97 per 

 cent. 



Fruit. — The Secretary of the State Horticultural Society reports the 

 condition of fruit on July 1st to be as follows: Summer apples, 42 per 

 cent; fall apples, 44; winter ap.ples, 46; pears, 26; American plums, 

 47; domestic plums, 28; Japanese plums, 20; cherries, 35; grapes, 65; 

 red raspberries, 69; black raspberries, 72; blackberries, 77; currants, 

 62; gooseberries, 69 per cent of a full crop. The average of all fruits 

 is 50 per cent; three per cent below the June average, and six per cent 

 below the average for July last year. The indications are that the crop 

 of apples will be 30 per cent less than in 1915; other crops about the 

 same as last year. 



IOWA CROP REPORT, AUGUST 1, 1916. 



Following is a summary showing condition of crops on August 1st, 

 as compared v/ith the average of past years on that date: Corn, 90 per 

 cent; pastures, 91; potatoes, 81; flax, 90. Last year on August 1st 

 the condition of corn was 74 per cent; pastures, 108; potatoes, 102; 

 flax, 94 per cent. 



Preliminary reports show the average yield of winter wheat to be 

 about 18 bushels per acre; spring w-heat, 15; early oats, 37; late oats, 

 35; barley, 30; rye, 18 bushels; tame hay, 1.7 tons; wild hay, 1.4 tons. 

 If these averages are maintained by final returns, the state will produce 

 about 8,000,000 bushels of winter wheat; spring wheat, 2,140,000; oats, 

 180,000,000; barley, 6,000,000; rye, 1,000,000 bushels, and 6,000,000 tons 

 of hay. 



The report ot the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society shows 

 the condition of fruit on August 1st to ihave been as follows: Summer 

 apples, 32 per cent; fall apples, 38; winter apples, 40; pears, 18; Amer- 

 ican plums, 37; dofmestic plums, 32; Japanese plums, 9; grapes, 52 

 per cent o'f a full crop. 



