Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1919 — More Acres Tilled Last Year [ARTICLE]

More Acres Tilled Last Year

When this country entered the war Uncle Sam called for an increased production of food, urging the farmers of flhe country to plant every available Acre. The food producers of the nation responded by planting over 11,900,000 acres more than had been planted during the year previous. .The acreage of all crops during 1918, according to figures just tabulated by the bureau of crop estimates, United

States department of agriculture, was 367,738,000, as compared to 356,341,000 acres planted in 1917 and 344,793,000 acres planted In 1916. These figures are based on the acreages of corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, tobacco, flax, rice, hay, cotton, peanuts, kafir, beans, broom corn, hops and cranberries, which crops comprised 96.6 per cent of all crops in this country In 1900.