AMERICA'S REMARKABLE HARVEST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15169, 7 December 1912, Page 10

AMERICA'S REMARKABLE HARVEST.

RECORD CROPS.

The aggregate harvests that will finally bo reaped in the United States this year (savs the Now York Sun) will bo the most remarkable the country has ever seen. There- has never been another year like it in tho vastness of all the crops, in the uniformly wonderful size not only of one or two staple, but of tho whole list of productions, great and small.

The report of the Department of Agriculture showed remarkable improvement in tho crops during tho month of September. It estimated a crop of spring wheat that had jumped iu tho month from 300,000,000 bushels to 350,591,000 bushels— harvest'unparalleled, and which has been approached only in the record year of 1909, when the figures of final yield of spring wheat reached 291,000,000.

The corn crop in the report was estimated at 3,016,000,000 bushels. It has been jumping higher month by month this remarkable year. The August report placod it at 2,811,000,000 bushels. A month later it was 2,995,000,000. The record crop was 2,927,416.000 in 1906. P a

Tno tmrd big feature crop of the year is the oats production, and there has been tho enormous increase in growth and size durinz the last month of 127,172,000 bushels, bringmg the yield to 1,417,172,000 bushels. The previous record was 1,186,341,000 bushels ts the final for 1910.

What these crops and the rest of the list will show on final yields is still a matter of conjecture. Ike conjecture is simply how much greater they will be. All fears of any damage is now dispelled, and the crops are considered made beyond harm of any extent.

I In barley the large increase of 15,619,000 bushels was recorded during the month bringing the total crop to 224,619,000 bushels I?^!!?JS ar as compared with tho crop of 160,240,000 last year. This is the largest crop the country has ever produced. The highest previous . crops were those of 170\916,000 in 1906, and 170,284,000 in 1909. The yield per aore is 29.7, as compared with the estimated yield of 27.6 last month and 21 bushels last year. AJnann V no ite i P °, Crop is «*t«nated at 401,000,000 bushels, as compared with 398,000,000 bushels last month and 292,737,000 last year. In New Zealand the total yield of wheat, and potatoes does not amount to 20,000,000 bushels* ' »