A bright spot in the monthly grain
report were the preliminary statistics
showing a production of 511.000,000
bushels of winter wheat. This is the
greateot harvest of wheat ever
gathered in the United States, ex
seeding the record crop of 1902 by 10,
D00.000 bushels. Tbe figures exceeded
by 28,000,000 the estimate made by
the department In July.
Spring wheat, too, was given an in
creased estimate of production, it be
ing 15,000,000 bushels more than the
July estimate, the total being placed
at 233,000,000 bushels. With the
bumper winter wbeat crop and a fair
ly good spring wheat production, the
total harvest of all wheat Is esti
mated at 744,000,000 bushels. A crop
this size would place the year's pro
duction second only to the record crop
of 1901. when 748,000,000 bushels were
produced.
The harvest of white potatoes, it Is
estimated, will be smaller by 82,000,
000 bushels than the crop of 1912. A
total of 339,000,000 busbels is esti
mated. Condition of spring wheat and corn
on August 1 with comparison and tbe
preliminary estimates of the acre
yield in iivshele, quality per cent and
total production in bushels of winter
wheat, by principal states follow:
SPRING WHEAT.
Ten-yeai
STATES. , 1913, 1912. Av.
North Dakota .... 68 1 94 77
Minnesota 85 89 82
South Dakota .... 65 85 80
Washington 87 87 81
CORN.
