SUMMARY OF CERTAIN DATA FOR 1929 



CROPS OF SPRING WHEAT, OATS, 



BARLEY AND FLAXSEED 



Results of a special survey to determine the percentage of acreage of specified 

 crops not harvested by reason of 1929 climatic damage; the percentage of acreage 

 of these crops on different tillages; the average dates of completion of seeding 

 and of certain stages of crop growth are given in the following tables and com- 

 ments. 



The survey yielded returns from 258 farms representing 52 of the 56 coun- 

 ties of the state and covering 240,116 acres. While the results given below are 

 those of the survey itself and no attempt is made to interpret them in terms of 

 all farms, it is believed that the sample will tend to represent what has been 

 true of all farms in the state this year. 



The survey farms reported a total acreage of crops planted in 1929 that was 

 17.4 per cent larger than the harvested acreage of 1928; but noted that 13.4 

 per cent of the planted acreage in 1929 was not harvested by reason of climatic 

 damage so that the acreage left for harvest in 1929 was but 1.5 per cent larger 

 than that harvested in 1928. 



Abandonment of planted acreage of important crops was reported as follows: 



Crop Per Cent Abandoned 



Spring Wheat 11.6 



Oats 32 . 9* 



Barley 19 . 2 



Flaxseed 25 . 3 



Rye 18.4* 



♦Apparently included some oats and rye cut for hay which 

 should have been excluded. 



TILLAGE USED 



Distribution of acreage was asked for important crops on basis of tillage used. 

 Reporters also were asked to designate the tillage on which abandonment oc- 

 curred. Results of these inquiries were as follows: 



PERCENTAGE OF ACREAGE PLANTED ON 



Crop Summer Spring Land After Other t«*-i 



Fallow Plow Cultiv. Crop. Tillage 



Spring Wheat 39.8 26.3 6.4 28.1 100 



Oats 16.6 44.1 13.1 26.2 100 



Barley 15.7 35.1 11.5 37.6 100 



Winter Wheat 58.2 41.8 100 



on sod after crop 



Flaxseed 72.0 28.0 100 



PERCENTAGE OF ABANDONMENT REPORTED ON EACH 



arnn Summer Spring Fall After Disc and «, , Not 



^ Fallow Plow Plow Crop Stubble ^^ Shown 



Spring Wheat 13.7 32.6 3.0 3.2 23.9 1.9 21.8 



Oats 7.2 50.2 10.5 5.6 18.2 .1 8.1 



Barley 20.4 44.4 5.7 19.7 10.6 1.1 



Flax 11.8 88.2 



SEEDING AND PLANT DEVELOPMENT DATA 



Reported completion of seeding shows, in case of spring wheat, the earliest 

 date of reported completion as the last week in March and the latest, the second 

 week of June. The bulk of the work, however, was done by the first week in May, 

 the weekly amounts falling off with about equal regularity throughout May to 

 the second week of June. 



Spring wheat began to appear above ground about the second week of April 

 but it was not until the second week of May that the bulk of the crop had emerged. 

 Emergence continued through the second week of June for the later seedings. 



• The earliest reported heading of spring wheat was in the first week of June 

 from which time the weekly amounts rose regularly to a peak reached in the 

 second week of July with the bulk of the crop heading out during the first and 



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