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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1926)
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1926. PAGE THREE 192G-27 GIVEN BY U.S.DEPT. AGRICULTURE The probabilities are that American wheat will remain on a world market basis in 1927, says the United States Department of Agriculture in a re cent report. The world market situa tion for wheat next year, insofar as it can be determined at present, seems not likely to be materially dif f 1 rent from the present year. There is little indication of any material expansion in acreage outside the Uni ted States, and the carryover next July is not likely to be large. Barr ing unusually high yields such as oc curred in 1915 and 1923, over a large part of the wheat area of the world, foreign competition will probably be about on a par with the present year. If American farmers carry out their intentions to increase winter wheat 14.4 per cent as indicated by reports received on August 1, a total Rcreage of winter wheat of about 46, 000,000 acres will be sown this fall. With a ten-year average abandon ment of 12,8 per cent, there would re main for harvest approximately 89, 000,000 acres and with a yield equal to the average of the past ten years (14.6 bushels) a winter wheat crop of around 673,000,000 bushels would be produced. This would be about 9 per cent less than was harvested in 1926, the preliminary estimate of which is 626,000,000 bushels. Last fall 39,373,000 acres of winter wheat were sown, and with an abandonment of only 6.6 per cent there remained for harvest this summer about 86, 700,000 acres. Last fall the fanners intended to sow an increase of 9,7 per cent over the preceding year's acreage, but because of adverse weath er conditions and other causes prac tically no increase was made. Various factors account for the in tended increase in acreage to be sown this fall. In many states the returns from winter wheat in both 1924 and 1926, and for the 1926 crop to date, were relatively high as compared with those of competing crops, and this is no doubt stimulating an in crease. In certain sections the in crease is due to the fact that many farmers were prevented by rains and early freezes from sowing their usual acreage last year. In other sections the increase is due to a need for a nurse crop for grass because of the fact that much of the area seeded to grass with spring grains during the past two years failed because of drought. In other sections there is a shortage of pasture which is in ducing increased plantings of wheat for fall pasture. It is noted that the intentions to increase the acreage of winter wheat are relatively high in sections which normally have a large corn acreage. It is evident that the low prices of corn during the present year are in fluencing some farmers to shift more acreage to wheat. In considering the making of such a shift, farmers should keep in mind that the present unfavorable situation for corn is not likely to be repeated next year. The present prospects are for a lower carryover of corn into the 1927-28 crop year than is the case this year, i:nd for a greater demand for corn on account of the increased number of hogs. If a winter wheat crop of 673,000, 000 bushels should be produced next year and the spring wheat crop is of average size, there will be an export able surplus considerably larger than prewar exports The area reported as intended to be sown is 34 per cent greater than the pre-war 1909-1913 average while the population of the United States has only increased about 25 per cent, and the per capita consumption seems to be lower than it was before the war. The area in tended is 6 per cent more than the average annual fall sowings for the period 1914-18, and 1 per cent greater than the post-war period 1919-1923. The average annual exports for the pre-war period 1909-1913 were 105, 000,000 bushels, for the war period 1914-1918 nearly 227,000,000 bushels and this high volume of exports was continued after the war. The net ex ports of wheat from the crop of 1924 amounted to 265,000,000 bushels. Last year, when there was a relatively MOLLA COMES BACK Mrs. Molla Mallory, nee Bjufstedt Is again queen of the American1 courts, the eighth- time she haa held the national championship, inter rupted only in 1924 when Helen Wills defeated her. - Mrs. Mallory defeated Miss Ryan In the finals lost week. Miss Wills withdrew due to illness. OUTLOOK FOR WINTER Wffi IT short crop, net exports of 92,000,000 bushels were nearly equal to the pre war exports. With an average yield next year and an increase in acreage as large as the intention report shows there would be a surplus for export and additions to carryover of around two hundred million bushels. Farmers Bhould not be misled by the relatively high prices received for the wheat crop harvested in 1925, and under normal conditions should ex pect in 1927 prices more nearly in line with wold prices. Producers of win ter wheat who had grain to sell last year were in a particularly favorable position because of the fact that the United States had p'roduced east of the Rocky mountains scarcely enough for domestic needs and consequently prices were not upon an export basis for a good part of the year. The ef fect of the present year's larger sup ply upon prices is already evident in the relationship between prises in the markets of the United States and in Liverpool. In the middle of August last year December futures were higher in Kansas City, Chicago, and liinneapolis than in Liverpool, where as now they are considerably lower than in Liverpool. On August 20, for example, futures in Liverpool were 21 cents higher than in Kansas City, 15 cents higher than in Chicago, and 8 cents higher than in Minneapolis. Consequently, while the world price level as measured in Liverpool is about the same as last year, larger winter wheat crops in the United States have placed our markets upon an export basis with domestic prices considerably lower than last year. The world market situation for next year, insofar as it can be judged from the present, seems likely not to be materially different from the pres tnt year, Estimates and forecasts of production of the 1926 crop received to date for twenty-two countries of the Norther nHemisphere indicate a total crop, outside of Russia and China, not very different from that of 1926. Although we have no definite estimates as to the size of the crops in China and Russia, it appears from general reports that while supplies from Russia may be greater than last year, the demand of the Orient be cause of a short crop will be greater. Should the Southern Hemisphere pro duce an average crop, the total world supply of wheat will not be very dif ferent from what it was last year. Furthermore, it seems that the ap parent pre-war tendency to increase the demand for wheat as against other breadstuff's has been resumed in some degree in the last few years. It does not seem likely, therefore, that the world's carryover of old wheat at the end of the year will be much, if any, larger than in 1926. In planning production farmers should consider also what producers in competing countries are doing. The areas sown to wheat in compet ing export countries, outside of Rus sia and the Danube countries, ex panded considerably during the war and have been maintained or con tinued to expand since the war. Al though we have as yet no definite and dependable measure of develop ment in Russia, it appars that Rus sian production is recovering and may be expected to become a more important factor in world markets. The Danube countries have nearly re covered pre-war conditions. Argen tina expanded her wheat area after the war from 14,000,000 acres in 1921 to 19,000,000 acres in 1925. Australia also increased from 9,700,000 acres in 1921 to nearly 10,300,000 acres in 1926. Canada, our greatest compet itor in European markets, is main taining her war expansion from 10, 000,000 acres to nearly 23,000,000 acres. While in recent years there has been no tendency for Canada to expand further, whenever there is any clear indication of the mainten ance of a higher price level further expansion may be expected. Euro pean importing countries have re covered about half the acreage lost during the war. The areas seeded to wheat in all of Europe, exclusive of Russia, last year amounted to about 62,400,000 acres compared with 67, 000,000 in 1921, and a prewar average of 66,660,000 acres. The area seed to wheat in those European countries haa increased but little in the past three years and there is no definite indication of any considerable expan sion in the next year. Relatively low prices in many European countries last year discouraged increases in seedings for the 1925 crop, and should this relatively low price continue it may for a time retard the further re covery of the wheat area in these countries. 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With the beginning of college work on September 27, how ever, the regular fall and winter schedule will be put into effect Monday night programs will con sist of a collegiate sports review, boys' and girls' elub news, radio grams, market news interpretations, timely agricultural topics, home study courses and lecture courses dealing with agriculture. An hour of music preceded by home study and lecture courses on popular sub jects will be broadcast each Wednes day night. Friday night programs will consist of study courses and a popular lecture each week dealing with some phase of. engineering in relation to the every day lives of Oregon citizens or the operation of her manufacturing industries. KOAC will broadcast play by play reports of all football games played on the campus this fall, including the Multnomah club game September 25, Gonzaga, October 28, and University of Oregon, on November 20.