Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — KANSAS’ GREAT CORN CROP. [ARTICLE]

KANSAS’ GREAT CORN CROP.

This Year’s Yield Is the Largest in History. The 1599 Kansas corn crop is ready for harvesting and the number of bushels yielded is far in excess of that ever produced by any other State of the Union in any one year or by any equal area of the world. The acreage of the State was 9,132,000 acres. The last report of the United States Agricultural Department gave the condition at 106, putting the State far in the lead of all other States. The condition was vastly improved since that estimate was made. Kansas has raised 400,000,000 bushels of corn. The human mind fails to grasp the meaning of the expression. To move the crop would require 22,500 trains of cars, giving forty ears to the train. Were each ear forty feet long, each train would equal 1,600 feet in length without locomotive and caboose, then multiplying the 22,500 trains by 1,600 feet, the length of each train, we have 360,000,000 feet. Dividing that number by the number of feet per mile, to wit, 5,280, it makes 6,818 miles, twice the distance from New York to London.