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U.S.DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
611
Contribution from the Bureau of Crop Estimates, Leon M. Estabrook, Chief.
July 21, 1914.
THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK.
CONTENTS.
Page.
General review of crop conditions, July 1, 1914 . .... ..... ... .. . .... 2
The wheat prospects....... ........................................ 3
Outlook for the 1914 foreign wheat crop .............. ... .............. 5
Cotton acreage and condition, July 1...--.--............... ...--......... 6
Tobacco report, by types and districts, 1914... ......... .................. 7
Area of sugar beets planted, 1914......................... ............... 10
Florida and California crop report................. .......... .. .... 11
Trend of prices of farm products....................................... 12
Hessian fly ................................................... 12
Marketing by parcel post...... .................................. 16
Car supply in relation to marketing the wheat crop of 1914 .............. 23
Acreage, condition, forecast, and prices of specified crops (tables)............. 26
Prices of farm products ............................................... 36
The equivalent in yield per acre of 100 per cent condition on August 1 ....... 38
TIME OF ISSUANCE AND SCOPE OF AUGUST CROP REPORTS.
The report showing the condition of the cotton crop on July 25 will be issued by the
Bureau of Crop Estimates, Department of Agriculture, on Friday, July 31, at 12 noon
(eastern time).
On Friday, August 7, at 2.15 p. m. (eastern time), there will be issued a summary of
the conditions of the principal crops on August 1, which will give the following informa-
tion: Preliminary estimate of yield and quality of winter wheat; condition on August
1 (or at time of harvest) of spring wheat, corn, oats, barley, potatoes, tobacco, flax, rice,
apples; acreage and condition of buckwheat and hay; acreage, yield per acre, and
quality of rye; stocks of oats in farmers' hands on August 1.
A supplemental report will be issued which will include a statement of the condition
on August 1 of the following crops: Peaches, pears, grapes, watermelons, cantaloupes,
sweet potaotes, tomatoes, cabbages, onions, beans, sugar beets, sugar cane, sorghum,
peanuts, hops, broom corn, hemp, kafir corn, alfalfa, timothy, millet, blue grass (for
seed); yield and quality of clover; also an index of general crop conditions on August 1
in each State; and the average price paid to producers for important products.
Details by States will appear in the August AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK.
528480-Bull. 611-14----1
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