Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — Yield of Wheat. [ARTICLE]

Yield of Wheat.

Our Agricultural Department at Washington places the yield of wheat for 1891 at 611,730,000 bushels. The largest previous yield was 512,765,000 bushels in 1884, or 98,965,000 bushels less. The value Is placed at $513,472,711. The nearest approach to this was $497,030,142 in 1879, or $16,442,569 less. In 1887 the value was only $310,612,000, or $202,859,751 less than the value of last year’s crop. The amount of corn harvested is placed at 2,060,154,000 bushels. This was never exceeded excepting in 1889, when the total was 2,112,892,000 bushels, or 52,738,000 bushels more. But the value this year is placed at $836,439,228. The highest value of this crop ever before recorded was $783,867,175 in 1882, or $52,572,083 less than the value of last year’s crop. The yield of oats is stated at 738,394,000 bushels, and the value at $232,312,267. In 1889 the yield was 751,515,000 bushels, or 13,121,000 bushels more, but the value was only $171,781,008, or $60,531,259 less. The highest value of the oat crop in any year before the last was $200,699,790 in 1887, or $31,612,477 less than that of last year’s crop. Adding the highest values of these three crops for previous years, that of the com crop in 1882, the wheat crop in 1879 and the oats crop in 1887, we have a total of $1,481,597,107, against a total value of sl,582,224,206 for these three crops last year—a difference in favor of last year of more than $100,000,000. Comparing with any one previous year the difference, of course, would be much greater. In fact, the value of these three crops last year was greater than the total value of all cereal crops together in any previous year, the nearest approach to it having been $1,470,957,200, or $111,267,006 less. When we deduct the amount of the annual expenditures of the General Government from the value of the annual grain crop we find nearly a third of it gone.