WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6. 1913
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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How Do You Spend
Your Money
Are you doing it in a way to receive substantial bene
fit! Are you laying aside something for a "rainy
day"? If not, you will never have a better time to
begin than now. To get quickly started, begin the
easiest way; come to
The United States
National Bank
and open a Savings Account. Do not wait for a large
sum, for it may never come: just deposit whatever
you have to spare, no matter how small the amount.
We will, gladly assist you in getting started. Each
pay day when you get your check, deposit a portion of
it and remember it will draw 4 per cent from the date
it is deposited. This bank is owned and controlled
by local people.
CHOP REVIEWS
(Continued from rago 1.)
as prevailed over a large part of 'the
country this year, would have resulted
jing all previous records by 225,000,
000 bushels. 'This year conditions
were unfavorable to the fullest possi
ble yield, a cold late r.iring and early
high temperatures in the central states
I affecting the yield, so that the total
' jawAH ,1... . . i . ntn nnn nnn
bushels. .. Only twjee before did the
crop pass the billion bushels mark, so
that the yield is above the average.
in almost a crorj failure, but the re.
storatibn to the soil of the fertility of This V' corn croP wi" not be 8
which it is in need to assure a better record, one. Our correspondents ear
return for the labor is showing its re- lv in lhe anth before the burning
suits in average yields in a year oHemPeraturea sweP through the
uncertain climate. High temperature southwest and Ohio valley figured on
and insufficient rainfall, which from 8 repetition of last year's crop, but
time to time settle over the Trans- we can not ignore the heavy damage
Missouri regions and the central part that has occurred in Nebraska, Kan
of the Mississippi valley are no longer sas, Oklahoma, Texas, and portions of
attended with abandoned acreage. This Missouri a"d Illinois since that time,
year is an admirable and effective which has cut off at leaf!t 300,000,000
showing of the better methods used hels frm the prospect, and reduc
on most of the farms, in the produc- the estimate to 2,800,000,000. As
tion of a corn crop of average size, the corn croP on the average does not
and of an oats crop that a few years "Pe" ntil late in October an estimate
aeo was considered a bumper croc " JuIv is simply based upon continu-
Spring Wheat Uncertain.
i ance of favorable conditions to the end
On the Pacific coast the yields were.01 106 season, ine conditions are gooa
I : high, and along the northern states rougn northern Indiana,. Illinois,
from the coast eastward conditions practically all of Iowa and northward
N. K. WEST, President.
T. J. SCROGGIN,
Cashier.
WM. MILLER, V.-Pres.
C. R. HARDING,
Asst. Cashier.
were favorable. In spring wheat North
Dakota developed uncertain prospects
from the lack of sufficient rainfall in
the spring, and a few days of high
temperatures ' in the month of June,
and the damage in the western and
central part of that state and in South
r-d esrtward from Ohio. The rest of
the corn belt has had little or no rain
of importance this summer.
The great rival of corn in weight
and value is that of hay, and to a large
extent it can tuke the place of corn
when there is a shortage of that grain.
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pd adv.
Dakota contracted the expected yielfc The hay crop has been above an aver-
fully 100,000,000, and the actual out- age there have been some losses in
turn of the spring seeded wheat will j the yield in the dry area, but in the
fall to that extent under last year, main the crop is the second largest on
with a total indicated by our corre-i.record wFth a total of 66,610,000 tonjj
spondents of 230,000,000 bushels. as against last year's magnificent yield
Oats Conditions Unfavorable. I of 72,691,000 tons, and this large crop,
The second of the ripening crops of ( with at least one-third of last year's
the country that figure in the domestic crop still on the farm, will repair all
use and which is among the three big the breaches that will be made by a
grain crops is that of oats. Last year lessened corn yield. The hay crop
this crop reached the unprecedented this year is valued on the farm at a
figure of 1,415,000,000 bushels, exceed- billion dollars.
. . The more important of the minor
' Chains barley is two per cent under
last year, the loss being almost en
tirely in California, where the severe
'lrought of last winter and spring, and
the extreme cold weather played have
with ail f sricultural products. The
crop in the northwest is somewhat be
low the high yield of last year, but
on the whole an average one. With
the exception of last year the harley
crop on lhe whole is far above the av
erage, r.nd ir the comparisons with
years other than the last one, is a
bumper crop.
Taking the, country over the out
turn oi uie crops niuy ue suniiimu&cu
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New Quarters Old Land Office 1113 Adams Ave
sections:
m i uo.t;; rr stales liooa average yieias
n cf till grains, no damage to any parti
W ' cnlar product.
l Cential west Average returns only
on oats, and corn promise average;
wheat exceptionally large; hay fair.
Fruits short on account of dry area in
the Ohio valley.
North central states Excellent in
all crops, save lighter spring wheat
yields on the western border. Corn
the most flattering prospect in years;
cats promising more than normal yield
.Potatoes and other vegetables excel
lent. Western states Drought conditions
impaired oats yield and causing con
siderable damage to corn. Wheat yield
1 above usual, exceptional results, save
in the western third of Kansas and
Nebraska. Potato crop badly hurt
! and much under average yield indicat
ed in the big productive region of the
; Kaw valley.
j South Atlantic and Gulf states east
of the Mississippi Excellent crops of
all kinds, cotton promise the best in
yenrs. Corn somewhat below record
yields on account of the ealy plant-
' - ' -.pii damaged by dry
, weather, late planting in splendid condition.
1 1 Southwest Very dry for some time;
wheat only large crop thus far, oats
good in Texas, poor elsewhere, corn
suffering over the best part of the re
gion. Cotton needing rain to main
tain present condition, but not badly
hurt.
Pacific Coast Poor southward on
f .lw.,wrt,t arA trnTx lariffilv
j UCL UUII U Ul lliuuKi'k ...... - , --rwo
f!ii!tir. onleptlio normwaru, ami uvci
ge yields of grain, with promise of
good fruit yield.
m.,, ct!itc Whpnt chief cow-
m..rn!al .rnn nnA ffrid vields renort-
1 ed. On eastern slope dry farming not
as successful as usual on account of
light moisture during the winter. Ir-
! rigated lands giving large crops.
I Northwestern states Wheat hurt
by poor start, hut damage checked;
oats same; exeef! orn and hay crop
twNi i promising record iJds.
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