Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1882 — THE CORN REPORT. [ARTICLE]

THE CORN REPORT.

An Idea of What Was Really Raised. The November corn report of the National Department of Agriculture shows that planting was later and replanting was more general than for several years past The prospect up to July was discouraging, causing a sharp rise in values, but since that the season has been steadily favorable to growth and ripening, and the deferred frosts have made the growing period of fully the average length. The condition on July 1 averaged 85; in August, 83-in September the same, and in October 81. Last year the condition fell from 9J in July t0«66 in October, pressaging a loss of over 450,000,000 bushels, which was fully realized. In October, the highest indication of the aggregate was 1,6J8,000,c00 bushels, and it was stated that later returns of the product may slightly reduce, but can not materially increase, this result The present returns make the general average close to twenty bushels per acre, which is under the medium, confirming the prediction of Sent. 1 that the heavy production of 1878 and 1883 can not be approached this year even under the most favorable circumstances. The yield in the census year was 281-10 bushels per acre. The average yield of ten years up to 1880 was nearly twenty-seven bushels. November returns of the yield per acre on an acreage of between 6 >,000,000 and 60,000,030 make an aggregate of nearly 1,650,000,000 bushels. Its distribution in round numbers is as followst States. Bushels. States. Bushels. New England. 7,‘ 00,000 Arkansas 35,000,009 New York 21,000,000 Tennessee.... 69,000,000 New Jersey... 10,000,'00 W. Virginia.. 13,000,000 Pennslvania.. 41,000,000 Kentucky 78,000,000 Delaware 4,000,000 Ohio 82,000,00* Maryland 17,000,000 Michigan 30,000,000 Virginia3s,ooo,ooojlndiana99,ooo,ooo N. Carolina.. 35,000,-00 111in0i5209,000,009 8. Carolina...' 16,000,000 Wisconsin.... 32,000.000 Georgia 32,000,000 Minnesota 21,000,000 Florida 4,000,000 10wa186,000,000 Alabama 29,000, 00 Missourilß4,ooo,ol' Mississippi... 25,0 0,000 Kansaslsl,ooo,ooo Louisiana.... 12,000,000 Nebraskaßl, 0.-o, <)00 Texas 74,000,000 The quality of the crop throughout the South is superior, but the crop falls below the standard of ICO in only eighteen States and Territories. It is only one point 'below the standard in Michigan, two in Ohio, three in Nevada, five in Indiana, Vermont and Utah, six in New Jersey, eight in Colorado, nine in New York, ten in Rhoda Island and New Mexico, fifteen in New Hampshire and lowa, sixteen in Dakota, eighteen in Minnesota, and twenty-two hi Wisconsin. Some correspondents deem it too early tor an accurate estimate, and think the outcome wilt be better determined by December, which has always been lowest. It is not probable that the crop will exceed the above fi ’•urea The Paris Bourse estimates the total stock of gold in the world in use as coin or as banking reserves in one shape or other at about of which total England has £126,000,000, France £136,000,000, Germany £80,000,000 and the United States £92,000,000. Other nations come in for shares varying from £BOO,OOO in the ease of Holland to £30,400,000 in Spain.