Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1878 — The Growing Crops. [ARTICLE]

The Growing Crops.

The statistician of the Agricultural Bureau, at Washington has completed his estimate of the condition and prospects of the crops for the next season. The reports from 700 correspondents of the bureau show that the area under cultivation for cereals, which has increased 50 per cent, daring the past ten years, will, during the present season, exceed in acreage any former year. The winter-wheat crop, which amounts to six-tenths of the total crop, will, from present appearances and with a favorable season, yield 860,000,000 bushels. Th® corn yield, it is thought, will not be than 1,800,000,000 bushels.