Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1908 — INDIANA'S COAN CROP [ARTICLE]

INDIANA'S COAN CROP

Not So Much of It as Last Year, but It Is Much Better in Quality. FIGURES OF THE YEARLY YIELD McDonald, the Phosphorous Fiend. Convicted of Rascality Danville Man Has the Bom Hen. Indianapolis. Oct 9.—lndiana may not have a “bumper” crop of corn this year, but the quality of the cereal is so much better than last year that the farmers will be gainers when they make comparisons. The crop last year was estimated at 130.000,000 bushels, but much of it was unmerchantable or was poor feed for live stack because It had not matured at frost time. Early freezing in many localities made the cereal soft and practically valueless.

This Year It Is Different. The crop this 'year may not exceed 120,000,000 bushels, but most of It Is of high grade—well formed kernels almost as hard as flint—and little of it. except in the northern counties on farms reclaimed from marshes and on bottom lands, was damaged by frost. Facts About the Crop Last year there were 4,025,506 acres under cultivation as compared with 3,884,980 acres this year; the average yield was 37.39 bushels, as compared with 30.98busbels, theestimate in 1908, and the total production was 150,502,420 bushels, as compared with 120,394,902 bushels, this year’s estimate. Benton was this year the banner corn county of the state. With 99,258 acres and an estimated average yield of 32.35 bushels, the total production was 3,211,840 bushels. The largest average yield was in Tipton county, where 48,477 acres, it is estimated, produced 1,795,238 bushels, or au average to the acre of 44.35 bushels. Where the Flood Hindered. The southwestern part of the stabs reports that the crop in the river bottoms is poor, on account of the floods, which did not recede in time to make seasonable plantings. White, Patoka and Wabash rivers were high until late* In June, and the bottoms were so wet the farmers had difficulty in sowing corn. Generally speaking, the upland crop is iwor, owing to the long drought. This is the case in every county that had only one light rain during the growing season.