Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1888 — AMERICA’S CORN CROP. [ARTICLE]

AMERICA’S CORN CROP.

The Department or Agriculture Estimates the Yie’d at 2,000,000,000 Bushels. The returns of the yield of corn made to the Department of Agriculture indicate a yield per acre as large as that of 1885 and larger than any other crop since that of 1880. The aggregate grown on a larger area will exceed that of any previous American product, being very close to 2,000,000,000 busheD, or about 32 bushels per capita, which has been exceeded in several previous years. The average yield of the States is as follows: Ohio, 35.2 bushels; Indiana, 35 bushels; Illinois, 36.2 bushels; lowa, 37 bushels; Missouri, 31 bushels, Kansas, 27 bushels; Nebraska, 36 bushels. These seven States produce 64 per cent, of the crop. The general average will fall somewhat under twenty-seven bushels. There is a good supply of maize in nearly all parts of the South, so that comparatively little will be required from the West. The yields of the Atlantic States are moderate; seriously reduced by frost on the northern border. After three years of low yield, potatoes give an average of about eightv bushels per acre, or neirly the rate of vield of 1879.