People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — LAST YEAR’S CROPS. [ARTICLE]

LAST YEAR’S CROPS.

Estimates of the Area and Product as Stated by the National Statistician. Washington, Jan. 11.—The government crop report for 1893 shows a yield of 396,000,000 bushels of wheat, 1,019,000,000 bushels of corn, 638,854,850 bushels of oats, 20,555,446 bushels of rye, 69,869,495 bushels of barley, 12,132,311 bushels of buckwheat, 183.034,203 bushels of potatoes, 483,028,963 pounds of tobacco and 65,766,158 tons of hay. Charles Ehlers, of Racine, Wis., aged 18, was killed by the accidental dis* charge of his gun while hunting.