Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1899 — NEBRASKA’S GREAT CORN CROP [ARTICLE]

NEBRASKA’S GREAT CORN CROP

300,000,000 Bushel* I* the Estimate and It May Re More. A conservative estimate of Nebraska's corn crop, which is now safe from frost, is 300,000,000 bushels. It is hard for the mind to grasp just what these figures mean. Counting 00 bushels of shelled corn to the load, it would take five million teams to haul the crop to market, a caravan that would reach around the world. It will an arnjy of 80.000 men over two month* to husk it if they husk 60 bushels a day each. If loaded into cars of 30,000 capacity it would take GOO.OOO cars to haul the crop, a train over 4,000 miles long. At no time within the past ten years has there been such a tendency on the part of farmers* to look for new locations. either to better themselves or to provide homes for their children. Many sections in tbe East are overcrowded while thousands of acres of rich, wellwatered lands can still be had in Nebraska and northern Kansas at comparatively low prices Thousands will visit that country this fall, as the railroads have announced cheap-rate harvest excursions for Oct 3 and 17.