No. 191 August 1, 1941
INDIANA CROPS AND LIVESTOCK
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE
COOPERATING WITH
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA 
INDIANA 
The effect of the dry weather on Indiana crops was just begrnnings$obe noticeable
August 1st. The indicated decline in prospects for that date for\orn rags qne^^fehd/
per acre making prospective production 181,102,000 bushels. This isSL4Q<"j%jl^tpaJWe
the 1930-39 average and 24 percent above last year. Damage was very spTTtlcd TCntf ap-
peared pronounced only on thin and sandy soils. Showery rainfall resulted in marked
variations even within counties.
The wheat crop threshed out better than expected and the yield is now reported as
23.5 bushels per acre, a yield exceeded only by the 26.0 bushels reported in 1931. Production is now estimated as 37,224,000 bushels, or 24 percent more than last year.
The oats crop is now forecast as 53,720,000 bushels or 8 percent more than last year
Mid 31 percent above the recent ten year average. The oats crop made a heavy growth
of straw, but was nearly free from rust so the fill and quality of grain were good.
Barley made an exceptionally high yield of 30 bushels per acre. The introduction of
winter barley has been accompanied by increased yields since in recent winters there has
been little winter kill or damage.
The estimated rye crop is 1,906,000 bushels, 7 percent more than last year and 29
percent more than the average of recent years. The yield of 15.5 bushels per acre is
the highest ever reported with the exception of 1894.
Potatoes show no change from last month promising 4,465,000 bushels. The prospective yield of 95 bushels is 10 bushels higher than last year. Favorable conditions through-
wit the state till mid July and the concentration of the later potatoes on muckland account
for the better yield indicated.
The production of tame hay is forecast as 2,780,000 tons, an increase of 103,000 tons in
July. This is due to good yields of alfalfa and prospective heavy yields of soybean hay.
Pastures declined in condition the past month. Most of this is seasonal and the rest
due to the effect of drought in all sections of the state. Pastures show the effect of rain-
Mi deficiency more quickly than cultivated crops at this season.
Tree fruits are especially promising this year. Apples in commercial counties are
expected to produce 2,376,000 bushels compared with 1,225,000 bushels last year and the
average of 1934-39 of 1,566,000 bushels. Peach production is forecast at 637,000 bushels
or nearly twice an average crop and eleven times last year's short crop. Pears are fore-
east at 662,000 bushels or 37 percent more than last year and 74 percent more than the
1930-39 average. Production of grapes is 9 percent better than average and 18 percent
tore than last year. The crop forecast is 4,700 tons.
On August 1st truck crop prospects were still good but the need for rain was rather
acute for these crops nearing maturity.
Crop reporters show egg production of 45.1 eggs per 100 layers compared with 42.6
a year ago and a 1927-36 average of 37.5 eggs. The number of layers per farm flock
»as 77 this August, 80 a year ago, and the ten year average is 83.4.
Milk production per cow in the herds on the farms of crop reporters August 1st, was
17.0 pounds compared with 15.4 a year ago, and an average of 15.0 pounds. The percentage of cows being milked August 1st was 76.9 where last year it was 75.8, and the
average is 76.0.
UNITED STATES
Crop prospects improved materially during July and though growing conditions were
less favorable in early August, crop production in the United States this year seems
Btely to exceed production in any past year except 1937. Until late in July prospects
seemed outstandingly favorable, but the showery weather in the South has resulted
ftthe heaviest infestation of cotton boll weevils since 1982 and in the Corn Belt the
totter part of July was so hot and dry that the corn was beginning to need rain in the