CROP REPORTS ARE FAVORABLE

PENNSLYVANIA STATE CROP REPORT

The Bureau of StatiBtics. Pennsylvania Department of ApricuVnre. ropoits tho acreage and conuuicn c f crops in this State on July 1. as fol-

lows:

Wheat—Kepor's from many count’es in Pennsylvania show a decline *n the condition of wheat, due largely damage by the Hessian fly: but a n her of the principal wheat-producing counties show an improvement June 1 report. The condition of wheat on July 1 for the State at large 86 per cent of a normal which is the same as one month ago, and ind cates en average yield of 17.6 bushcli per acre, and a total production of 27.f6i.O00 bushels. The crop last year was estimated at 20,190,000 bushels. The average yearly productlofl for »he last five years was 26.319.760 bushels. - Rye—Conditions of rye is 93 per cent of normal which Is an improve mont of 1 per cent from last month. Present forecast Indicates an average yield of 17.2 bushels per acre, and a total production of 4.027.000 bushels. The crop last year was estimated a*. 3.665,877 bushels, and the average yearly yield during the last five years was 4,456.000 bushels. Oats—Weather has been favorable and oats have advanced 5 per cent during the past month. Conditions . •n July 1 whs 95 per cent of normal | and Is Indicative of an average yield of 34.7 bushels per acre, and a total pro duction of 40.000.003 bushels. The crop last year was estimated at 35.015.000 bushels and the average for the past live years was 38.717,000 bushels. Corn—The area planted this year is estimated at 1.470.804 acres, which is 96 per cent of last year’s acreage. The condition of the crop on July 1 was

85 per cent and indicates an average yield of 40 bushels per acre, and a total production of 59.073.000 bushels The crop last ear was estimated at 70.086,000 bushels, and the average yield for the last live years wae 61.-

55(1.525 bushels.

Hay—Conditior. of meadows ami prospect for haj is estimated at -''0 per cent of a no: mm. or 1.40 tons pel acre compared with 1.41 tons per acre it. If the acreage harvested this year is as arge as Iasi, the total crop will appnxlmate 4.186.000 tons compared i1th 4.219.415 tons last year. The av< -age for the past live years was 4.394 400 tons. Potatoes—The area planted to potatoes is eslim. ted a> 239.920 casts an averare yield of 92 bunbebof last year’s a Teage. The condition on July 1 was 94 per cent and fon casts an average yield of 9 2busbe' per acre, and ; total production of 22.072.600 bushels. The crop last year esUmstcJ at 26.000.000 bushel*, and the av t r-ge foi the last five year., ras 24.090.500 bushels. Tobaccc—The area planted tht« pring Is estimated at 39.415 acres, ihlch Is 95 ].er cent of the area planted last year. Conditions placed at 91 per cent and Indicates an average yield of 1374 pounds per acre, and a tolal production of $54,156,000 pounds. The crop last year was estimated at 53.767.990 pounds, and the average for the last live years was

50.612,000 pounds.

Beans—Tho area planted to field or dry beans Is estimated a 20.600 acres, which Is 92 per cent of the acre-

age of last year.

NEW JERSEY STATE CROP REPORT Weather conditions have been favor- P** 1 *en years on July 1. Clover—Thr.

able during the past month and a.11 condition on July 1 was 88 per cent crops have • hown Improvement over I 01 a normal n. compared with 85 pcJune 1 forecast. While the estimated j ^“t last year, and 82 per cent, the production of all crops with the ex | average condition for the past ten ception of potatoes and hay- are under years on July 1. Alfalfa—The condi-

last year, they are considerably above ll°n on July 1 was 88 per cent

the ten year average. .normal as compared with 94 per cent

Corn I last year, and 91 per cent, the average Rainfall accompanied by warmer (condition for the past ten years

weather improved ce-'dltluns In all Ju, - V 1 -

sections of the State. The condition! Wool on July 1 was 84 per cent of a normal The average weight per fleece «a Indicating a yield of 38.2 bushels ]>er | estimated at 7 pounds as compared acre and s total production of 9.S17.00(. With 7 pound* last year, and 5.5 pound) bushels, us compared with 10.800.000 (the average weight for the past ten

bushels last year, and 10,603.000 ( years,

bushels, the average production for App'es tho past ten years. The condition of the total of agriculWheat jturm! crop on July 1 war 78 per cent The conditions on July 1 was 76 | of a normal indicating a production of per cent of a normal indirating a yield 2.818.000 busheis as compared with 2. of 16.3 bush- per acre and a total ,313.000 bushels last year, and 2,241.003 pared with 1.962..000 bushels last year , bushels, the average production for the pared with 1.962.000 sbuehls last year past ten years. The commercial crop and 1.002.000 bushels the average pro- is estimated at 78 per cent of the total duction for the past ten years. The'production or J2-..000 barrels as < stock of old wheat remaining on farms pared with 587.000 barrels last yeai. is estimated at 5 per cent of last year's land 870,000 barrels, the average < crop of 96.000 bushels, compared with - merciai production of the past four

Pastures

The condition on July 1 was 94 per cent of normal as compared with 83 per cent last year, and 85 per c the average condition for the past years on July 1. Poultry on Parma The condition of young stock farms July 1 was estimated at 93 per cent of a normal and the number o! pullets at 102 per cent as comp.ired with last year. The number of adult hens, was estimated at 98 per c of a year ago. Poultry on Commercial Plants The condition of young stock commercial plants la estimated at per cent of normal; the number pullets, a’ 107: and adult bens at 105 as compared with last year. The egg production on commercial plant) June is estimated at 44per cent pared with 44 per cent last year. This is based on 100 per cent equaling 1 egg per day per hen during period re

ported for.

Farmers Take Up Accounting

60.000 bushels la.-t year and 77.000 -bushels, the average stock on hand lor tue past ten years on July 1.

Oats

i years. Peaches

The condition of the total agricultural crop on July 1 was 71 per cent

The condition on July 1. was 91 j of a normal Indicating a yield of 937.pet rent of a normal indicating a yield bushels as compared with 1.018,000 of 31.9 bushels per acre, and a total bushels last year, and 937.000 buahels.

•be average production for the pan

production of 2.456.000 bushels as compared with 2.461.000 bushels last year, and 2.327.000 bushels, the average pro-

duction for the past ten years.

Rye

The condition on July 1 was 90 per cent of a normal indicating a yield of

The commercial crop

estimated at 70 per cent of the toU.1 production 656.000 bushels as compared with 683,000 bushels last year, and 678.000 bushels, the average commercial production for the past three

17.6 bushels per acre and a total pro yeers.

duction of 1,253.000 bushels as compared with 1.296.000 bn*heU last year, and 1,200.000 b'- average production for the ,ten .-ears.

Potatoes

The condition on July 1 was 92 per i» TC > r “« P" rent of a normal indicating a yield rears, cf 115 bushels per acre and a total 1 production of 12.305,000 bushels rs I T'*'*’ ‘' on< compan-d with 10.560,000 bushels last , Jersey exp year, and 9.903.000 bushels, the aver j ">:.l ns age production for the pas’ ten years i fi **ld beals.

Sweet PoUtoea

The condition on July 1 was 68 pc'-1 ”*’* a, ’‘ , 0 rent ol a normal Indicating a yield of <*ntai 128.5 bushels per acre and a treai pr. j ,hu, ,fc *‘ *' duction of 1.799.000 bushels as cora-. ,n^rea! " ,1 1

pared with 1.705.000 bushels last year. [

and 2.627.(100 bushels, the average j The ave:

production for the past ten years.

Hay (Tame)

The condition of ai! tame hay

July 1 was 91 per ce Indicatirg s yield of 1J

Pears

The condition of the total crop on July 1 was 65 per cent of a normal Indicating a yield of 677,000 bushel:! as compared with 500.000 bushels, the

I'-iion for the past ten

Other Crops

ion of other crops in New ssed In i-ercer.tage of nor ws: Field peas. 93: omatoes. 88: cabbage.

Oneday farm accounting courses -e now being given in 15 States through the co-operation of the United States Department of Agriculture and the State Agricultural Colleges farm management extension work. The primary object of these coursns is to interest the fanner in farm bookkeeping ax an essential to efficient farm management. While the asals. ence which the courses give in calculating a farmers Income tax is of great value, it is necessarily secondary. Tkls Is the first year In which this method of introducing farm accounting has been undertaken on such a large scale. The schools are carried co-operation with the countyagents. The one-day sessions are occupied with calculations made by the fanneis themselves under the super virion of the Instructor, and d'seusrlons of such topics are the' relatne value of various crops, the alee of crop yields, the quality and quantity of live stock for a lann of given sire, th.- srac of the farm business as a whole, and the farm layont, and the use of labor--all factors vitally affecting farm effi

ciency.

Was Horace Greely Overrated ?

One Sunday- I was in the pastor's pew (De Kalb. Ind.. In the early fifties) and my father was preaching a sermon. A quaint and curious old gentleman a pi.eared and was seated at my aide. A few minutes after the opening of the services, and when the sermon was in progress, he dropped his head ud apparently went sound asleep. He sat at my aide and 1 thought this was a most irreverent and unappreciatt. e performance. 1 the more aatound<‘d when he ur home for luncheon and I learned he was Horace Greeley. He had heard every word of the sermon and entered upon an earnest discussion with father during the entire luncheon. The ext night he lectured in the church. The lecture tour was one of the many occasions on which this strange, untrustworthy and greatly overrated s doing violence to the hopes of the sound-hearted people of the North. Enjoying a degree of confidence rarely accorded to any Journal 1st. he, throughout his long life, seldom missed an opportunity to pis:’ havoc with the Cause he had espoused and of which he was accounted the foremost champion. Removed as we are at this time from the days more than half a lury ago. and reviewing Greeley's activities In a dispassionate light, we see a continued course of tergiversr lion from the first to last. In 1848. professing himself and his new-born paper, he Tribune, as devoted Whig party, no sooner was bis favorite candidate. Henry Clay, defeat'd and General Taylor nominated for the presidency, than there was a brutal attack on the choice of his party which could not be but helpful to the xemocrats—Melville E. Stone, in Col-

lier’s Weekly.

NE WS FLASHES

Nation Wide Happenings Briefly Told

folk

Hoarded Wealth Found in Chair New 'York.—Veterans of scores tf hard-fought battles with the terror* of the deep are the members of the life-saving crew at the Bayonne station. Many a tale of fearful feat* wrought by some departed member of that crew whose memory is revered, is told by lamplight of a uigbt when there is little to 1o and when the pinochle or ’'sixty-six” tusael grows wearisome. The Bayonne heroes are known far and neat and their prowess and ability to serve and 'an- has never been questioned. Now the Bayni.ne life-savers are thinking o.* ghosts—ghosts of those when cows and sheep and pigs and goats cropped the fragrant gross of Broadway; ghosts of the day* when solitude-seeking lovers sough' the wilderness of Fourteenth street: ghosts of those days when national and savings banks were regarded as all too freakish and dangerous for the 'nstni ent o! the savings of solid cititenry. It Is, perhaps to the ultra-conserr bllsm of these old New Yorkers that Captain Fred C. Wilson, who commands the life-savers at Bayonne st < m owes a fortune—a fortune he has oilored to return to the owner does that owner appear In person to ent<

claim.

Many years ago thpre dwelt In this vicinity some cautious person who

Utile

The 1920 Census The years since 1910 have see great world events directly affecting the census of 1920. now in progre** The Tripolitan and Balkan Wars and the great conflict with Mltteleuropa have so blocked Immigration and up eastward counter-currents that an Increment possibly smaller than that of 1910 is looked for. Yet if that crement should shrink from 16,000.003 to 14.000.000, what : record will re

Two bandits entered an establishment of the American Stores Companv at Eighteenth and Huntington streets Philadelphia, last week, and held the manager at (he point of a gun whit* they ransacked the store, ate a hearty meal, and then escaped with $125. Admitting the murder of seven peo pie during the last ten years. Mose Gibson, negro, has been sentenced be bung at Los Angeles, Cal. A washed out bridge over a creek near Buffalo. N. V- was responsible for the death of Mr. and Mrs. William Newman and their two children, of Lackawanna, N. Y'.. and Miss Clara Sheck. of Buffalo. The road had not been barricaded when the bridge was washed away by a flood and during the night Newman drove his automobile Into th swollen stream. illiam Ber.net. Jr., of Fayetteville. W. Va.. serving life sentence for the murder of his wife and unborn child, was taken from jail by an angry mob

and lyn-hed.

Philadelphia baa opened war sanitary soft drink establlshn.i:

Tallow candles are again coming im 0 extensive use. due to the high cost of

Corn cobs have been found to con tain a quantity of callulose. used it dynamite making.

At Winfield. Kansas. Homer S. Wiison, actor, was murdered by bis wife \ year ago Wilson killed two men : 0 avenge bis wife’s honor. Dr. Harry E. Campbell, formerly a prominent physkla of Pittsburgh, p* recently died In New York where be held and $15-a-week position a* dishwasher in a restaurant. He spent b's fortune educating his unappreo ative stepdaughter for a career on th. stage. He went to New Y'ork when he became despondent over financial reverses.

Few estimates of the population of has so leaped upward—both -in Ur the United States proper fall much land In appearance, owing below 160,003,000 and in this- swiftly marking up of assets-that most .-si. swelling mass the proponion of for-;maters are probably too timid

ones who guess at $300,000,000,000

eign-born Is much larger than It was ten yearn ago. German scholars shoLld have warned ’heir war lords In 1917 that they were affronting u nation more numerous <han that which Spain had fought by an addition greater than the entire Austrian Empire—a nation more nearly native American than it had been for years In other respects than numbers the change is startling. National wealth

be nearer right, la twenty years 18. value of farm producta and deposit, banks, unfailing indices, have qi rupUd. The value of a single ye manufactured product exceeds the tire wealth of any second-class natloa and of some first-class ones. The epoet making changes In shipping and ta national gold-holdings are indice-

power.

20 to 25 Percent Saved Get acqt-xinted with our money-txvinp. direct to consumer proposition. Crepe ue Chcne, Washable Satin, Taffeta Navy, Taffeta olack. Georgette Crepe, Metuline Black, Meataline Navy. Writ* No*. ADKI.PH1A MFG. CO 2306 S 23rd Stitet, Philadelphia.

85. blackbe-. but neglected t

Of little his board of gold and currency grew. Alt was entrusted to the seat of an old chair. Then the aaver died—and with him—or her—the se-

cret Of the golden cache.

Early this year Captain John Howard. who commands lighter 72 of the Morgan Towing Company, bought an old fashioned chair at a junk shop.

, . **ne dollar was the price. But the

mdition of honey plants July | .

. chair was too old anu finally it was

destined for the scrap heap.

jries and i-sspberries. 85: watermelons-. jK\ cantaloupes. 79. It Is estimated | that the acreage of late tomatoes has increas. d f.-ur per cent over last year

Honey

The average yield of surplus honey per colony to July 1 is estimated at 3b pounds. The condition of the colonie<»n July 1 was 93 per cent of norma:

normsl land .h*

er acr*fl. 99 per cent cf a normal.

wholesale prices of several grade!

and a total production of 505.000 tons :»*•- •>uwe-tvti*- iniv*-n *-i •e->e.«w •u- .-.

as compared with 487.600 tons lafi la e ns follows: Extract er. white. 31" i <:ivo u ,0 n “’-" ! * ,<1 Captain Wilye*r. Mid 499.000 tons, the average per pound: extracted, amber. 26c: ex-l* 0 "- request was granted, production for the past ten year- traeted. dark. 25c. White, comb, 32c; Days 1 .er. Caplin Wilson began Timothy—Th-- acreage for cutting'other comb, 27c; in chunk or bulk, irepairlm: the chair. Ripping up the this season was .slimated as 10T per]white. 30r: other. 25c. The greater seat he came across the hoard place 1 cent of laid season’s acreage nr 116,000 . proportion of bee keepers take sur there in th- days of long ago—a acres. The condition on July was'plus honey in the fall as the heaviest (hoard, he airs, that is big enough to 93 per cent of a rormx! a* compared flow in New Jersey is from late flow ,keep Mm in afflaence for the remain |

with 94 peg cent last ‘ear. and 83 pet lers. The white clover flow was recent, the average condition for the | ported extremely light in the northern

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