No. 134 November 1, 1936
INDIANA
CROPS AND LIVESTOCK
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
DIVISION OP CROP AND LIVESTOCK
CO-OPERATING WITH     
PURDUE UNIVERSITY 
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL STATIS
WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
INDIANA
Rainfall in most places Was above normal for the month of October while the temperature for the month was about normal. The weather hampered farm work to some
extent. Wheat sowing was delayed and an unusually large proportion was sown late. The
absence of freezing weather was favorable for pasture and the harvesting of late crops.
Corn is being harvested in every section of the State but work has been retarded by
wet weather. Great variations in yields are reported, even in the same county following
the spotted rainfall during the growing season. The yield of corn was estimated at 25
bushels, giving a production of 111,900,000 bushels. The five year (1928-1932) average
production is 155,968,000 bushels.
Allowing for an almost failure for early potatoes due to drought, the yield of potatoes
on November 1 was estimated to be 75 bushels per acre or 15 bushels below the ten year
(1923-1932) average. The main part of the acreage making the high yields is in the northern third of the state.
Yield of sweet potatoes is estimated 36 bushels below the ten year (1923-1932) average of 116 bushels.
Reports on yields of tobacco are higher than expected earlier. The yield for all tobacco is estimated to be 700 pounds with a production of 4,830,000 pounds.
Soy beans are turning out better than expected. Delayed frost permitted late set
pods to mature. October rains retarded harvesting and some damage to beans is reported.
The estimated yield is 13.5 bushels, with 17 bushels last year. The production in 1936 is
3,213,000 bushels with a five year (1928-1932) average of 1,925,000 bushels.
Pasture condition was 74 percent of normal. This is 16 points above last month and
4 points above last year.
Apples sized well after the rains, especially in the northern part of the state and production is larger than expected. The estimate is 487,000 bushels or 26 percent of last
year and 27 percent of the five year (1928-1932) average.
Pears are 25 percent of a full crop and the production is 56,000 bushels. Production
last year was 170,000 bushels, five year (1928-1932) average, 189,000 bushels. Grapes
are 45 percent of a full crop, last year 77.
On November 1, 75.2 percent of the cows on reporters' farms were being milked;
last month, 77.4 percent; a year ago, 72.3 percent. The daily milk production per cow
milked was 18.3 pounds; last month, 19.1 pounds; a year ago, 16.5 pounds.
On reporters' farms having 370 or less hens and pullets of laying age, the average
size of laying flock was 100 birds; last month, 91; last year, 96 birds. The percent of birds
laying was 18.1 percent which was 6.8 points lower than last month and 1.3 points lower
than a year ago.
UNITED STATES
Crop prospects improved about 2 percent during October for in most parts of the
country there were several weeks of mild weather that aided in the maturing and harvesting: of late growing crops. The current estimates for corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes,
aPPies, tobacco, peanuts, sugar beets and buckwheat are all moderately higher than those
°i a month ago, and prospects for cotton improved nearly 7 percent. The corn crop is now
estimated at about 1,527,000,000 bushels which would be about 1 percent more than was
estimated a month ago, and 3 percent above production in 1934. Considering all of the
principal crops, the acreage harvested appears to have been about 10 percent below aver-
ge and cr°P production about 21 percent below average.
OAKLEY M. FROST, MINER M. JUSTIN,
Jr. Agric. Statistician. Agricultural Statistician.