794 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



A summary of reports received September 1st, with 86 per cent of the 

 threshing completed, shows the average yield of small grains to be as 

 follows: Oats, 33 bushels per acre; winter wheat, 22; spring wheat, 15; 

 barley, 26; rye, 19, and timothy seed, 4.2 bushels per acre. If these esti- 

 mates are maintained by final returns, the state will produce about 

 165,000,000 bushels of oats, 11,000,000 of winter wheat, 4,000,000 of spring 

 wheat, 11,000,000 of barley and 1,300,000 bushels of rye. 



IOWA CROP REPORT, JUNE 1, 1914. 



Following is a summary showing conditions of crops on June 1st, as 

 compared with the average of past years on that date: Corn, 101 per 

 cent; oats, 99; spring wheat, 98; winter wheat, 96; barley, 95; rye, 97; 

 flax, 96; potatoes, 99; tame hay, 92; wild hay, 95; pastures, 97; alfalfa, 

 101; apples, 56; plums, 75; peaches (southern Iowa), 84; grapes, 92; straw- 

 berries, 90; raspberries, 89; blackberries, 91; and cherries, 87 per cent. 



The condition of live stock is as follows: Cattle, 101 per cent; sheep, 

 100; hogs, 95; spring pigs, 88; horses, 99; foals, 94. 



Last year on June 1st the conditions were as follows: Corn, 80; oats, 

 barley and rye, 95; spring wheat, 94; winter wheat, 96; flax, 90; potatoes, 

 87; tame hay and alfalfa, 102; wild hay, 100; pastures, 103. 



IOWA CROP REPORT, JULY 1, 1914. 



Acreage of Farm Crops and Estimated Condition of Staple Crops and 



Fruit. 



Reports received July 1st, from county and township correspondents of 

 the Iowa Weather and Crop Service, show the following results as to 

 the acreage and average condition of staple farm crops, and the condition 

 of fruit. 



Corn. — As compared with the area reported by the township assessors 

 for 1913, we have an increase of 142,000 acres, or a total of 9,324,300 acres 

 this year. The average condition on July 1st was 102 per cent, or 9 per 

 cent better than on July 1, 1913. 



Oats. — Area sown, 5,154,200 acres, or about 50,000 acres less than the 

 acreage of 1913. The average condition is 94, as compared with 91 per 

 cent on the same date last year. 



Wheat. — The area of winter wheat is 538,400 acres, or about 12,000 

 acres more than in 1913. Spring wheat, 261,000 acres, making a total 

 wheat acreage of 799,400. The estimated condition of spring wheat is 96 

 and of winter wheat 95 per cent, as compared with 92 and 97 per cent 

 last year. 



Barley. — Acreage sown, 437,400 acres; decrease 24,000 acres; condition, 

 90 per cent. 



