38 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



IOWA CROP REPORT JUNE 1, 1911. 



Acreage of Farm Crops, Estimated Condition of Staple Crops, Fruit and 



Live Stock. 



Reports received June 1st from county and township correspondents 

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

 the number of acres, and average condition of staple farm crops; also 

 the condition of fruit and live stock. 



Corn. — The estimated number of acres of corn planted appears to be 

 8,534,500 or an increase of 163,000 acres as compared with the area re- 

 ported by the township assessors, for 1910. The average condition of 

 corn on June 1st was placed at 105 per cent for the State, as against 97 

 per cent on June 1, 1910. 



Oats. — The area of oats is estimated to be 4,660,500 acres, which is 

 99 per cent of the acreage in 1910. The average condition was 100 per 

 cent. Last year the condition on June 1st was 94 per cent. 



Wheat. — The area of winter wheat is placed at 200,800 acres, and spring 

 wheat 358,500, making a total wheat acreage of 559,300 acres, or an in- 

 crease of 2 per cent over last year. The estimated condition was 100 per 

 cent as compared with 88 per cent for winter wheat and 96 per cent for 

 spring wheat on June 1, 1910. 



Barley. — Acreage sown, 313,147 acres; condition 100 per cent against 

 93 per cent last year. 



Rye. — Acreage of rye sown, 28,710 acres. Condition of the crop 97 

 per cent or 7 points better than on June 1, 1910. 



Hay. — The acreage of tame and wild hay is 4,214,540 acres, and the 

 condition of the hay crop is 88 per cent as compared with 79 per cent last 

 year. 



Alfalfa. — Area 26,067 acres, which is an increase of 8 per cent over 

 last year. The condition on June 1st was 100 per cent. 



Potatoes. — The acreage of the potato crop is estimated to be 132,865 

 acres which is a slight increase of the area planted in 1910. Condition 

 of crop 101. 



Flax. — The acreage of flax is 20,200 or an increase of 1 per cent over 

 last year. The condition of the crop, 99 per cent or 9 per cent better 

 than last year. 



Pastures. — The acreage is about 99 per cent and the condition is 99 

 per cent. Last year the condition was 81 per cent. 



Condition of Fruit. — Secretary Wesley Greene, of the Iowa Horticul- 

 tural Society, reports condition of the fruit crops, on June 1st as follows: 

 Apples 70 per cent; pears 40; American plums 68; domestic plums 66; 

 Japanese plums 48; cherries 84; peaches 10; grapes 81; red raspberries 71; 

 black raspberries 81; blackberries 87; currants 75; gooseberries 80; straw- 

 berries 55 per cent of a full crop. The average condition of the crops 

 in May was 78 per cent. This month it is 65 per cent, a drop of 13 points 

 caused by the high temperature and drought of the last decade. Stra'vf- 

 berries, early cherries and garden vegetaTsles have suffered most from the 

 drought. 



