Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — CORN YIELD VERY LIGHT. [ARTICLE]

CORN YIELD VERY LIGHT.

Present Indications Are that It Will Average but 19.7 Bushels Per Acre. The November returns to the Department of Agriculture of the rate of yield per acre make the average of corn 19.7, which is about 1% bushels above the yield indicated by the condition figured in October. This is the lowest rate yield that has occurred since 1881, when it stood at 18. G bushels per acre. Last year the yield was 22.5 bushels upon a much larger harvested acreage. The rates for the years 1886, 1887 and 1890, which were years of comparatively low yield, were respectively 22, 20.1 and 20.7 bushels. The yield for the present year, which must be regarded as a preliminary and not final estimate, is less than the average for the ten years, 1870 to 1879, by 7.4 bushels, less than the average for the succeeding decade, ISSO to 1889, by 4.4 bushels, and less than the average for the four years 1890 to 1893 by 3.7 bushels, quality 79.4. The result is in harmony with reported indications during the growing season. The rates of yield of the principal corn States are as follows: New York, 28.2; Pennsylvania, 32; Ohio, 26.3; Michigan, 23.2; Indiana, 28.9; Illinois, 28.8; lowa, 15; Mississippi, 22; Kansas, 11.2; Nebraska, 6. The average yield of buckwheat is IG.I bushels per acre. The average yield in 1893 was 14.7 and in 1892 14.1 bushels. The average quality 90.3, 100 being the standard. The average yield per acre of potatoes is returned as 62. In 1892 the yield was 1.32 and 1892 1.17 tons. The quality is high, as shown by the percentage of 94.5. The crop of apples is reported at 41.7 per cent, of an average product. The returns relative to the feeding of wheat to stock are not sufficient to justify a report at that date. The department hopes to be able to make a special report on this subject in the near future.