FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XI. 831 



IOWA CROP REPORT, JUNE 1, ini?.. 



Following is a summary showing average condition of rrops on Junn 

 1st, as compared with the average of past years on that date: corn, 80 

 per cent; oats, barley and rye, 95; spring wheat, 94; winter wheat, 96; 

 flax, 90; potatoes, 87; tame hay and alfalfa, 102; wild hay, 100; pas- 

 tures, 103. 



Last year on June 1st, the conditions were as follows: corn, 92; oats, 

 100; spring wheat, 96; winter wheat, 90; barley, 99; rye, 9.5; flax, 99; 

 potatoes, 98; hay, 95; alfalfa, 94; pastures, 99 per cent. 



The Secretary Iowa State Horticultural Society reports conditions of 

 fruit as follows: apples, 73 per cent; pears, 48; American plums, 51; 

 domestic plums, 48; cherries, 54; peaches, 71; red raspberries, 77; black 

 raspberries, 83; blackberries, 85; grapes, 89; currants, 78; gooseberries, 

 70; strawberries, 76 per cent of a full crop. 



IOWA CROP REPORT, JULY 1, 1913. 



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 condi- 

 tion of fruits. 



Corn. — The estimated number of acres of corn planted is 9,434,500, or 

 an increase of only 14,067 acres, as compared w-ith the area reported by 

 the township assessors for 1912. There would have been a much greater 

 increase but for the fact that the w-eather w'as wet and cold at planting 

 time, which necessitated the abandonment of a large acreage intended 

 for corn. The average condition of corn on July 1st was placed at 93 

 per cent as against 89 per cent on July 1, 1912. 



Oats. — The area of oats Is estimated to be 4,804,400, or a little more 

 than one per cent less than the area harvested last year. The average 

 condition is 91 per cent, or 9 per cent less than on July 1, 1912. 



Wheat. — The area of winter wheat is placed at 505,740; and spring 

 wheat, 365,300, making a total wheat acreage of 871,040 acres, or a de- 

 crease of 6,270 acres, as compared with the acreage reported by township 

 assessors for 1912. There Is, however, an increase of 7,800 acres in the 

 area of winter wheat. The estimated condition of spring wheat is 92 

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

 for spring wheat and 90 for winter wheat on July 1, 1912. 



Barley. — Acreage sown 368,600 acres; condition 91 per cent or the same 

 as last year at the same time. 



Rye. — Acreage of rye sown 69,830; condition of the crop, 97 per cent, 

 or one per cent better than on July 1, 1912. 



