Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1888 — THE POTATO CROP. [ARTICLE]

THE POTATO CROP.

Fl gures Showing the Yield the Present Se asonto Be the Largest Ever Grown. The following estimate of the potato crop of the United States for 1888 appeared in the Chicago Farmers’ Jieview: There is no longer room for doubt that the potato crop of the present season is the largest ever grown in the United States. From statistics furnished by correspondents of the Farmers' Jieview. based on actual harvest returns, we make the following estimate: Ohio—Acreage. 156,963; average yield, 96 bushels; total, 15,068,448 bushels. Indiana— Acreage. 99,875; average yield, 68 bushels; total. 6,791,500 bushels. Illinois—Acreage, 146.317; average yield, 82 bushels; total, 11,997,994 bushels. lowa—Acreage, 150,276; average yield, 118 bushels: total, 17,732,568 bushels. Kansas—Acreage, 120,91&; average yield, 57 bushels; total. 6,892,212 bushels. Nebraska Acreage, 66,538; average yield. 84 bushels; total, 5,589,192 bushels. Michigan—Acreage. 158,468; average yield, 96 bushels; total, 15,212,928 bushels. Wisconsin^—Acreage, 112,264; average yield, 109 bushels; total, 12,236,776 bushels. Minnesota—Acreage, 670,000; average yield, 108 bushels; total. 7,336,000 bushels. Dakota—Acreage. 65,707; average yield, 90 bushels; total. 5,913,630 bushels. Missouri—Acreage. 85,316: average yield, 89 bushels; tot#.!. 7,593,124 bushels. Kentucky Acreage. 52.072; average yield, 77 bushels; total, 4,009,544 bushels. Total for the eleven States and Dakota, 116,373,916 bushels. In the thirty-three other States and Territories we assume that the average yield will be equal to that of 1884—viz., 85.8 bushels per acre, as reported by the Department of Agriculture, which, allowing for increase in acreage, would make a total of 100.272,143 bushels, or a grand total of 216,646,059 bushels, against 208,164,425 bushels in 1883,190,642,000 bushels in 1884, 175,029-,000 bushels in 1885, 168,051,000 bushels in 1886, and 134,000,000 buthels in 1887.