+ A SSS FRB Ss SA: irs AN Si HER Cis i MR i (pia a a AA Ho GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT | Atten d ji a Washington, D. C., March #, 1017. Y¥. ADI Oth «=A summary of the March crop re- | _ April port for the State of Pennsylvania | and for the United States, as compiled | : wu of crop estimates (and | hrough the Weather | 8 partment of Agri | aaa : Wheat on Farms t State: — Estimated stocks on farms | March ‘1 this year 4,700,000 bushels, jeompared with 8512000 a ywur ago and 5,462,000 two years ago. Price : on March 1 1.76 per bushel, compa with $1.13 a year ago and $1.42 two years ago. ! United States :--Estimated stock on | farms March 1 this year 101,000,000 | bushels, compared with 244.448 000 | bushels a year ago ard 152.008 040 two | years ago. Price on March } ti pro ducers, $1.84 per bushel, co: pared =] [with $1.03 a year ayo and $1.00 two | years ago. Corn en Farms | b : State: Btimated stock on ‘arms : \ § | J i March 1 this yesr 17,000,000 ho hels, : aad” Wo fatto of compared with 11 862.000 a yeu ago 4 i | > - e 1 | 4 * NN : : Says Less Crime in New York and 21.762.000 two years ago. Tice {March 1 to producers, 112 toni per Among hovmost used FALLACIES:«concerningraleobo loByw srages isitheonothat : “a bushel, compared with 70 certs 4 jonr crime, and thetif Probibitionithtatacithe weriifiwould rapid i hi Ba apo and R3 canta two yeard ayo. 3 United States -—Eutimated stocks on farms March 1 this year 88000. {000 bushels, compared with 1,116,058, F000 a year ago and S10.804000 two {years ago. Price March 1 to produc fers, 101 cents per bushel, compared {with 68.2 cents a year ago and 75.1 Coens Two Yours bi Corn of Merchantable (punlity State:—-The percentage of the 1916 le which was of merchantable quali ty estimated at Bl per cent, com pared with B0 per cent of the 1015 ¢rop and HR per cent of the 1914 ¥ & \ re i alin HIE EH ' ' ara TN phi’ paperathat proaches: Prohibition, with certalir PACTS'ag news spread quickly that the actor George Behan. Italians know Mr. Beban—his fame for ihs interpre- tation of Italian characters having | A Bnited States :— The percentage of AR the 1916 crop which was of merchant. nubile quality is estimated at B40 per cent, compared with 71.1 per cent of the 1915 crop and 84.5 per cent of the 1914 crop. gathered Yrom Governmentisources. Says the dosputelly with date line of Janus: 7, fretmiow Yoric: “Vico-«SuiDRinitin \ New York has been greatiyireducelim the past low paragaly spread throughout the world—and the Oats on Farms BA _¢ | o i Pores of Soci humble laborers were awed to see| State: —Estimnted stocks on farms | . Po Ag . a a 4 March 1 this year 18828000 bushels, : ’ ' is thebead Prob compared with 12300000 a year ago snd 12,564,000 two years igo. Price’ March 1 to producers 856 cents per bu. | hel, compared with Sp cents 4 yor ago and 58 cents two yuars ago. : | States: Estinmted stocks | on March 1 this year, 304,000, with 42.7 cents | 2.1 cents two years 3 le A Barley on Farms State:—Estimated stocks on farms i 2 57st ; a a—————— STATE AGRICULTURAL NOTES HR ———— It is reported that the frost - [trated the ground to an unusnal € quing winter, as much as SET Dias RA BA FN CIR PE ARR ve Pd Juans i “Agrentors Pian» sivici| to the quality or taste of a cigarette— of sgricoitaral first tio in many years sn increas: it’s just a valueless with instead of a decrease in the numbe: | was noted. Approximately 50 per cent of tht | farmers in Pennsylvania are using | — lime fur agricultural purposes Re. | ARATION OF SAIL FOR | prrts indicate that farmers generally | DOT ATO are plensed with the resulty obtained | gt from the incressed ust of Lame aml] : he © $y go be Uh use will Sais who are planning to ihe tandimey sms to be to use still} this year, there are a : ———— i Sauaidins that the f should It is estimated that Ponnaylvania | his ihe BEL ime | formers held on March 1, uo total of 16.965 900 bushels of corn, siimoat five million bushels less than during the past two yeary at that time. they are Virginia tobacco— ALL Virginia —grown right here in the United States. sunshine itself. It is estimated that seven per cent T | will tell you that Virginia is the best cigarette tobacco estimated that the 1916 pota- in the United Staen wes 74,- bushels: short of the 1915 § otherwise have
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