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the close of November. Considerable damage to early seeded wheat by 

 Hessian fly was reported. 



An uuusual windstorm November 5th blew much- corn to the ground 

 over the western two-thirds of the State. Current and subsequent rains 

 damaged the down corn, which lay in the muddy fields at temperatures 

 high enough to cause rotting and sprouting. Husking was considerably 

 delayed by the wet fields through which full loads of corn could not be 

 drawn. Another windstorm Thanksgiving Day, November 30th, the most 

 severe in many years, caused further damage to the remnant of corn 

 remaining in the fields. 



Iowa's 1922 corn crop is the second largest of record. The old corn on 

 Iowa farms November 1st was estimated at 39,668,000 bushels; new corn, 

 December 1st, 455.535,000 bushels; total corn 495,203,000 bushels; com- 

 pared with a total of 502,344,000 bushels in 1921, and 506,943,000 bushels 

 in 1920. New corn is 28 per cent above pre-war normal; old corn 159; 

 and total corn .33 per cent above pre-war normal. Fortunately, Iowa 

 farmers are much better provided with live stock to consume this corn 

 than they were last year and the corn production of the country as a 

 whole is less. 



It is unusual that both warm weather and cool weather crops produce 

 well in the same season, but in 1922, practically all crops yielded above 

 the 10-year average and fruit, particularly apples, made an unusually 

 large crop. The total value of crops is 57 per cent greater than a year 

 ago. 



FINAL ESTIMATES OF IOWA CROPS, 1922. 



An increase of 57 per cent in the total value of Iowa's 1922 crops 

 over 1921 is shown by the final joint estimates of the Iowa Weather and 

 Crop Service and the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics read by 

 Charles D. Reed, Director of the State service, at the State Agricultural 

 Convention in the House Chamber of the Capitol Building Wednesday. 



Four bumper corn crops in succession is Iowa's unprecedented record; 

 the 1922 crop of 455,535,000 bushels being raised on 10,123,000 acres with 

 an average yield of 45 bushels to the acre, worth December 1, 54 cents 

 per bushel or a total value of $245,989,000. The total corn crop of 1922 

 is exceeded only by that of 1920. The quality is good, the moisture 

 content of that received at elevators during the last week in November 

 being 16.8 per cent as compared with 16 per cent last year. Ninety- 

 seven per cent matured without frost damage. On December 1, 86 per 

 cent of the corn husking had been done, which is about the usual. About 

 8 per cent of the total crop was hogged and grazed down. 



Oats were a much better crop than last year, yielding a total of 222,- 

 851,000 bushels on 6,023,000 acres with average yield of 37 bushels per 

 acre, worth 34 cents per bushel or a total value of $75,769,000. 



Spring wheat acreage dropped to 68,000 which is probably the least since 

 Iowa became a State. The yield per acre was 15 bushels; the total crop, 

 1,020,000 bushels, worth at 95 cents per bushel, $969,000. 



Winter wheat is steadily gaining favor in Iowa. The acreage in 1922 

 increased to 689,000; the yield per acre was 23 bushels; the total yield, 



