Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — CROP REPORTS FOR 1879. [ARTICLE]

CROP REPORTS FOR 1879.

Washington, Juno 14. The census for the cereal product of 1880, which is the crop of 1879, has been completed. It shows the constantly-increasing prosperity of the country. The total wheat and corn crop is 3,232,679,681 bushels. The total rye, oats, barley and buckwheat is 481,905,000 bushels. The total product of the country aggregated 2,714,603,681 bushels. This is a remarkable increase in the productions of cereals during (lie last decade. During the last ten years Indiana and Illinois have nearly doubled their wheat production, lowa has quadrupled hers, Minnesota doubled, Wisconsin suffered a loss of about 1,000,000 bushels. Kansas increased eight-fold, and Nebraska and Colorado sevenfold. The following are the complete returns of wheat and corn as complied by the Census Bureau for 1880:

Wheat, 1880. Corn, 1880. Ohio 46,014,869 112,681,046 Indiana 47,288,089 117,121,915 Illinois 51,136,455 327,706,895 Michigan 35,537,097 36,844,229 lowa 31,177,225 276,093,295 Wieconein 21,884,680 35,991,461 Minnesota 34,625,675 14,979,744 Missouri 24,971,727 203,464,620 Kansas 17,324,141 106,791,482 Nebraska 13,846,742 65,785,572 Colorado 1,475,559 455,988 Dakota 3,018,354 2,078,089 Montana 469,688 5,794 Wyoming 4,752 65,000 Idaho 540,564 16,408 Utah 1,167,268 164,244 New Mexico 708,788 650,954 Arizona 189,517 36,246 Washington 1,921,382 39,906 Nevada 70,404 12,891 Oregon 7,486,492 127,675 California 28,787,133 2,050,007 Total 272,647,511 1,303,188,529

Total for the country: Wheat and corn, rye, oats, barley and buckwheat, 481,905,000. Total, 2,714.602,681.