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SEED-BELT NEWS 
Volume 19. 
BALTIMORE, MD., MAY 15th, 1935. 
No. 6 
United States Dept, of Agriculture Estimates Crop Prospects for 19 35 Below A'verage 
As the planting season opens it is 
apparent that crop prospects in the coun¬ 
try as a whole are much better than at 
this time last year but they are still sub¬ 
stantially below average due chiefly to 
carryover effects of last year’s wide¬ 
spread drought. Desperately dry condi¬ 
tions still prevail in the Southern Great 
Plains area, including portions of five 
States in the area surrounding the west¬ 
ern tip of Oklahoma. In the northern 
half of the Great Plains area most sec¬ 
tions have had enough rain to meet cur¬ 
rent needs, but the supply of subsoil 
moisture is still deficient in some areas 
and crops will be more dependent than 
usual on timely rains during the growing 
season. In the eastern half of the coun¬ 
try crop prospects appear to differ little 
from those usually prevailing this early 
in the season. 
WINTER About 13,839,000 acres of the 
WHEAT wheat sown last fall have 
been abandoned, practically 
all of the abandonment being in the dry 
Southwestern area. 
In other sections prospects for winter 
wheat are about average for this season 
of the year and production is expected 
to total 431,637,000 bushels which would 
be about 7 percent above last year’s pro¬ 
duction but about 23 percent below the 
average production during the preceding 
ten years. 
RYE The rye crop is expected to exceed 
40,000,000 bus. compared with the 
abnormally low production of 16,040,000 
bus. harvested last year and an average 
of 40,375,000 bus. during the preceding 
10 years. 
HAY AND The condition of farm pas- 
PASTURE tures on May 1, as reported 
by crop correspondents, av¬ 
eraged 69.5 percent compared with 66.2 
last year. With the exception of last 
year, the condition is lower than in any 
previous May in 50 years. Over most of 
the drought area, however, stands of 
grass in meadows, pastures and ranges 
have been more or less thinned and in 
some sections, particularly in the dust 
blowing area, more than one season of 
favorable growing weather will be re¬ 
quired to reestablish the normal carrying 
capacity of the pastures. With some loss 
of acreage in hay meadows and new 
seedings, a widespread thinning of 
stands, a late start in growth, and lim¬ 
ited seed supplies for some of the com¬ 
mon emergency hay crops, another light 
hay crop seems probable, although pros¬ 
pects are markedly better than they were 
this time last year. 
The lateness of the spring is compli¬ 
cating the general shortage of feed. On 
a large proportion of the farms in last 
year’s drought area hay supplies were 
exhausted by May 1 and total hay sup¬ 
plies on farms in the country as a whole 
are estimated to have been a third less 
than the tonnage on hand a year ago 
when supplies were lower than in any 
of the previous thirteen years for which 
records are available. 
TIMOTHY 
Per Bushel 
♦♦Fancy.$ 8.55 
♦♦FANCY Extra 99%. 9.00 
* V Trinity 99.50% ...Write for Pricesl 
Per Pound! 
*Timothy & Alsyke 20% - .21 
* “ & “ 15% - .20 
♦U.S.VERIFIED ORIGIN ALFALFA 
Per Pound 
V Kansas Okla. 99.80%.193^ 
V Kansas 99.75%...21 
V Northwestern.25 
V Grimm State sealed certified .32 
□ “ “ “ “ .30 
V Affidavit Grimm U. S. Ver. .26 
VERIFIED ORIGIN CLOVER 
WHENEVER DESIRED. 
♦DOMESTIC RED CLOVER 
Per Bushel 
V Trinity 99.50%. 
..$12.00 
♦SAPLING or MAMMOTH 
V Trinity 99.50%. 
..$12.60 
♦ALSYKE 
□ Square . 
.$15.00 
V Trinity 99%. 
.$15.60 
Per Pound 
V UNHULLED SWEET.. 
.. .073^ 
V WHITE SWEET Clover* .09^ 
V YELLOW SWEET*. 
... .09H 
V Japan Clover**. 
.. .08 
V Korean Lespedeza. 
... .06 
V Kobe . 
. .10 
V Sericea Hulled. 
.. .19 
V Tenn. 76. 
> .15 
Per Pound 
□ WHITE CLOVER 97% .21 
V WHITE CLOVER**98% .22 
♦♦KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS 
□ Square 75%.22 
V Trinity 80%.23 
♦REDTOP-HERDS GRASS 
□ Square 90%. 
.13 
V Trinity 95%. 
.13 H 
V Unhulled**. 
.06 
V Chaff**. 
.03 
♦♦ORCHARD GRASS 
□ Orchard 90%. 
.14 
V Orchard 95% onion 
free.15 
Crimson Clover. 
. $12.00 
Austrian Peas. 
. 5.50 
Hairy Vetch. 
. 11.50 
**D. E. RAPE - 
- $3.50 
Canada Peas . 
. $4.00 
Per Pound 
SUDAN Grass New Crop .10 
Millet Tenn.07 
Cane.. . .043^ 
♦♦♦SEED CORN perbu. 
Eureka Ensilage Corn Va.Grown $2.25 
Lancaster Sure Crop Corn. 1.80 
Reids Yellow Dent Corn. 1.85 
West Branch Sweepstakes Corn.. 2.25 
Johnson Co. White. 1.85 
♦♦LAWN GRASSES 
. Trinity 100 lb. bags......-...$ .30 
Trinity 100 lb. in 5 lb. bags.31 
Trinity 100 lb. in 1 lb. Cartons.32 
Evergreen 100 lb. bags.22 
Evergreen 100 lb. in 3 lb. bags.23 
Velvet Lawngrass 100 lb. bags.17 
V Shady Lawngrass 100 lb. bags.30 
V WHITE CLOVER 220 lb. bags.... .22 
LAWNSPUR 100 lb. bags. 3.00 
LAWNSPUR 25 lb. bags. .90 
♦♦FARM and TURF GRASSES 
V DOMESTIC RYEGRASS .05 
□ Pasture Mixture.18 
V Paceys Ryegrass, Imported 
V Italian Ryegrass, “ .. 
V Poa Trivialis .30 
V Chewings Fescue .55 
V Sheep Fescue. 40 
V Red Fescue.40 
V Hard Fescue. - .40 
V Colonial Bentgrass.85 
V German Bentgrass(Creeping) .80 
V R. I. Bentgrass.85 
V Seaside Bent.90 
V Meadow Fescue.20 
V Bermuda Grass *.20 
V Tall Oat Grass.15 
COWPEAS 
Mixed . $1.80 
Mixed Whipp . 2.20 
Brown Whipp . 2.50 
Grey Whipp . 2.50 
Clasp. 2.20 
Blacks . 2.50 
Mixed Peas and Beans . 1.70 
SOY BEANS 
Wilsons . $1.35 
M. Y . 1.55 
Virginia. . 1.50 
packing ] 
•Cotton Bags—30c—net weight 
••Burlap Sax-free-gross weight 
•••Burlap Sax — 12c —net weight 
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