Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1889 — OUR WHEAT AND CORN. [ARTICLE]

OUR WHEAT AND CORN.

I THE GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES ON THE YIELD OF GRAIN. A Better Showing in Regard to Wheat and Com Wheat Yield by States Dakota’s Output of Grain and Vegetables. The department of agriculture rei ports the general percentage of the ; condition of corn at 91.7, against 90.9 a month ago; potatoes, 77.9, against 86,8 last October; buckwheat, 90., against 92.1 last year; tobacco, 80.7, against 85.7 in 188?. The preliminary’ estimate of yield an acre is 12.8 for wneat, 11.9 for rye, and 22.2 for barley. The last month has been favorable for corn. Slight frost nortfr of 40 degrees injured late corn, but the percentage of damage was generally very small, as the crop was well’ matured in the third week of September. Potatoes were injured east of the Alleghenies by excess of moisture, causing rot. In West Verginia and Ohio similar reports are received. Drought reduced the yield in Michigan, though the quality is generally good. In the Mississippi valley the crop is-more promising. In the Rocky Mountain region, where the area is largely increased, the season has been unfavorable. The returns of yield an acre of wheat are in thrasher measurement This report is preliminary, as the local estimates will be tested by the 1 record books of the thrashers now coming in. The present average for principal States are 13 8 bushels in New York; in Pennsylvania 12.3, Ohio 14.6, Michigan 14.7, Indiana 14.7, Illinois 16,Wisconsin 14.2, Minnesota 14.6, lowa 13.1. Missouri 13, Kansas 18.4, Nebraska 12, Dakota 8.3, California 15. Winter wheat was injured in many districts during harvest and in the stack by heavy rains and is comparatively light, grading badly, thus reducing its weight and value. Commissioner of Immigration F. H. Hagerty, in the last report of the Dakota bureau of immigration, says: “The total acreage of wheat in Lakota for 1889 was 4,669,717 acres, the yield was 44,009,092 bushels; the total acreage of oats were 1,122,502 acres, and the yield 21,369,708 bushels, the total acreage of corn, 814,677, and the yield 22,832,073 bushels; the total acreage of barley, 255,969, and the total yield 4,455,777 bushels: the total acreage of rye, 19,754, and the total yield 301,107 bushels; 8,033 acres of buckwheat yielded 32,564 bushels; 45,656 acres of potatoes yielded 4,038,262 bushels: while 403.314 of flax produced 3,28?, 115 bushels of flaxseed.”