Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1877 — Interesting Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Statistics.

Kansas leads every State in the Union in the yield of corn per acre, being 43.5 bushels. Little New Hampshire, strange to say, comes next, with a yield of 42. Vermont follows with 39; Ohio, 36.7; Wisconsin, 34; Indiana, lowa and Nebraska, 30; Michigan, 29 ; Missouri, 27.8; Minnesota, 25.4; Texas and Illinois, 26 each. Illinois takes the lead in the oat orop, growing 43,789,581 out of the total 282,107,159 bushels. lowa produces the largest springwheat crop of any State, the production of the United States being 112,549,533 bushels, and that of lowa 28,707,312 bushels, while Wisconsin ranks next, with 24,375,435 bushels. Ohio raises the most winter wheat, 27,625,759 of the 175,195,193 bushels produced in the United States, and also more than half the flax produced in the country. The wool yield of the State is one-fifth that of the United States and double that of California. Pennsylvania supplies one-fifth of the rye produced in this country, or 3,577,641 bushels out of 16,918,795. California produces the largest barley crop, or 8,783,490 out of a total of 29,761,305 bushels, and also nine-tenths of our native silk cocoons. New York is the largest cultivator of buckwheat, raising 8,904,030 of a total of 9,821,721 bushels. Mississippi takes the lead among the cotton-growing States. Kentucky grows more than half the hemp crop of our country. New York produces more than onefifth of the hay crop, or nearly twice as much as Pennsylvania, which furnishes the next largest figure in that line. New York furnishes, also, more than twothirds of the hop crop of the country. South Carolina supplies nearly half the rics produced in the country. Georgia is next, or 7,000,000 pounds ahead of Louisiana. Nearly all the rice comes from these three States. Of the 272,734,341 pounds of tobacco produced in the country, 105,305,828 pounds are grown in Kentucky. Virginia comes next, with 38,086,364 pounds. Louisiana contributes nearly all the sugar and molasses from cane, and Vermont nearly one-third of the sugar of maple, while New York produces onefourth the sugar from maple. Ohio and Indiana produce each oneeiglith of sorghum molasses. New York grows one-fifth of the whole potato crop. North Carolina produces more sweet potatoes than any other State. New York raises one-fifth of the national supply of peas and beans. California produces more than onehalf of the nativo wine.