Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — THE WHEAT YIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE WHEAT YIELD.

A Final Estimate as to the Crop of the United States—A Total Production of 530,000,000 Bushels. [Milwaukee dispatch.] S. W. Tallmadge presents the following figures as a final estimate of the wheat crop of the United States for 1884. The figures are based on official reports made within a few days by the State Agricultural Departments and Statistical Agents of the different States and Territories. The report shows that the total production of winter wheat is 380,000,000 bushels, and the total of spring wheat is 150,000,000 bushels; total winter and spring, 530,000,000 bushels. This makes the total yield of the country fully 25,000,000 bushels more than ever before produced, 130,000,000 more than last year’s crop, and 80,000,000 more than the average crop for the last five years. The departments all agree in reporting the quality as superior, and, where it has been thrashed, they say the yield has more than met their calculations. This applies especially to the spring wheat sections of lowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The quality of spring wheat was never better. The spring wheat harvest has been late, but the weather has been most favorable, and grain is being cared for in excellent condition. The following figures are given as to spring wheat: State. Bushels. State. Bushels. Minnesota.... 4' ,000,000 Wisconsin.... 21,000,000 10wa32,000,000 Nebraska..... 31,000,000 Total spring Dakota 25,000,000 wheatlso,ooo.ooo The following is the winter-wheat estimate: State. Bushels. State. Bushels. Kansas 48,000,00 j New Jersey... 2,000,000 California.... 45,000,000 Utah 2,000,000 Ohio 35,200,000 Arkansas 1,600,000 Indiana 35,000,000 Alabama 1,500,000 Missouri 33,000, OOOlDelaware 1,000,000 Illinois 33,000,000 ! New Mexico.. 1,000,000 Michluan 22,500, (100'Montana 1,000,000 Pennsylvania 22,500,00011dah0 1,000,000 Oregon 15,OOO.OOJlMaine 500,000 New York.... 13,000,000Arizona■ 500,000 Kentucky.... 12,OjO,oooMississipi.... 500,000 Maryland.... 9,ooo,OOOiVermont. 500,000 Tennessee.... 9,000,000 N. Hampshire . 200,000 Virginia 7,000,000 Nevada 200,000 N. Carolina .. 5,000,000 Wyoming.... 200,000 Texas 5,000,000 Connecticut.. 48,000 W. Virginia.. 4,ooo,ooo,Massachusets 25,000 Georgia 4,000,000 Louisiana.... 25,000 Washington.. 4,ooo,oooFlorida 10,000 Colorado 3,000,000 Rhode Island. 1,000 S. Carolina... 2,000,0001 Total winter3Bo,ooo,ooo Total winter and spring.... 530,000,000