Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — Frost Only Barrier to Record Corn Harvest. [ARTICLE]

Frost Only Barrier to Record Corn Harvest.

Washington, Sept. 7.—Corn, the country’s greatest crop, needs only a few Weeks’ freedom from frost} to mature into the largest production ever known in the history of the nation. The government’s September crop report today forecasts a production of 3,248,000,000 bushels, which is 124,000,000 bushels more than produced in the record year 1912. Spring wheat yields are turning out better than expected and the September forecost showed the increase of fourteen million bushels over the production forecost in August. Adding the winter wheat production, a total yield of 668,000,000 bushels of wheat this year wasannounced. That is 28,000,000 bushels more than last year’s harvest, but 138,000,000 bushels less than the average of the crops for the five years, 1911-15. A -larger production than ever before will be harvested in oats and rye, white potatoes, sweet potatoes, Tobacco and hay. Oats prospects increased 89,000,000 bushels during August.