624 TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 



during- the first part of September hastened silo filling and fodder cutting 

 In some localities the work has been completed. There are a few reports 

 that "hogging down" has begun. 



Potato digging is well under way in some localities, with good reports as 

 to yield and quality. The yield will be about double that of last year. Late 

 truck crops and pastures were improved by the rains. Tomatoes and 

 melons are in good condition, although slightly nipped by frost on lowlands 

 in some localities on the 11th. 



Preparations for winter wheat seeding have continued in the usual winter 

 wheat section of the State and extended northward more than usual, though 

 the acreage in the northern half of the State will of course be relatively 

 small. Seeding has begun in Lee and Woodbury counties, but is being gen- 

 erally delayed to avoid the Hessian fly. It is probable that the fly-free date 

 will be announced by the State Entomologist at Ames, after which the win- 

 ter wheat will be seeded with a rush. 



The Secretary of the State Horticultural Society reports the condition of 

 fruits and vegetables, on September 15, as follows: Fall apples, 85; winter 

 apples, 70; pears, 69; plums, 75; grapes, 95; peaches, 80; late potaoes, 75; 

 late cabbage, 81; onions, 84; tomatoes, 92; watermelons, 86; cucumbers, 78; 

 sweet potatoes, 77 per cent of a full crop. 



Bulletin No. 25, September 2G, 1922 — 



Warm days, cool nights and almost rainless weather were favorable for 

 maturing corn, digging potaoes, fall plowing, winter wheat seeding and 

 other farm work. 



Corn is about up to the normal stage of advancement though a few late 

 planted fields are still green. Less than 10 per cent would now be damaged 

 by a moderately heavy frost. Considerable fodder cutting and silo filling 

 was done the past week and a little cribbing has been done from the earli- 

 est fields. Light frost in some localities of the northwestern portion of 

 the State on the morning of the 25th did no appreciable damage. 



Winter wheat seeding is under way in a good many counties though there 

 is still danger that wheat seeded now may come up in time to catch a 

 liberal deposit of Hessian fly eggs. During the warm afternoons recently 

 the State Entomologist reported a large increase in eggs deposited. In 

 Warren county 13 eggs per wheat plant were deposited on the 23d. A few 

 early seeded winter wheat fields in Lucas and Wayne counties are already 

 up and 3 inches high. There are reports of winter wheat seeding ex- 

 tending northward into new territory in central Iowa. 



Buckwheat is being harvested and the crop is reported as good in the 

 northeastern part of the State, to which this crop is mostly confined. 

 Sugar beet harvest is about to begin in Wright county, where the quality 

 of the beets is reported as good. 



Fall apple picking is in progress. The crop is excellent in quantity and 

 quality where spraying was attended to properly. Grape harvest is about 

 finished; the crop was abundant. 



Potatoes and onions by the trainload in Mitchell county are being held in 

 warehouses on account of shortage of cars in which to ship. 



As a whole the season has been favorable for nearly all crops and in this 

 respect Iowa has been more favored than surrounding states. For this 

 reason prices should be more satisfactory this year than last year pro- 

 vided products are not rushed to market too fast. 



