Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1920 — WHEAT CROP 88 PER CENT [ARTICLE]

WHEAT CROP 88 PER CENT

Over Forty Million Acres of Grain Sown—Condition Better Than Last Year. Washington, Dec. 20. —The area sown to winter wheat this fall » 40,605,000 acres, which is 2.8 per cent less than the revised area sown last fall. The condition of the crop on December 1 was 87.9 per cent of a normal, compared with 85.2 a year qgo, 98.5 on December 1, 1918, and 88.4, the tenyear average on that date. The acreage and condition of winter wheat in Illinois is 2,470,000 acres and 86 per cent of normal; in Indiana, 1,953,000 and 82; in Nebraska, 3,301,000 and 90; in Oklahoma, 3,100,000 and 86, and in Kansas, 10,343,000 and 88. *