Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1879 — The Crops. [ARTICLE]

The Crops.

Corn crop 30,000,000 bushels larger than that of 1877; oat crop greater than that of 1877; barley unchanged; rye, one-sixth larger; potatoes, 124,000,000 bushels, against 170,000,000 in 1877; hay, 20 per cent, larger ; tobacco, 75 per cent, of lost year’s crop in twelve States; grapes, reduced production on the Atlantic slope, greatly increased yield in California; apples, increased yield in New England, New York, Texas and the Pacific States, a falling off elsewhere; pears, half to two-thirds of last year’s crop.