Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1884 — THE WHEAT YIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE WHEAT YIELD.

A Pinal Estimate as to the Crop of the United States—A Total Production of 530,000,000 Bushels.

[Mllwankee dispatch.] S. W. Tallmadge presents the following figures as a final estimate of {he wheat crop of the United States for 1884. The figures are based on official reports made within a few days by the State Agricultural Departments and Statistical Agents of the different States and Territories. The report shows that the total production of winter wheat is 380,000,000 bushels, and the thlal of spring wheat is 150,000,000 bushels; total winter and spring, 530,000,000 bushels. This makes the total yield of the country fully 25,000,000 bushels more than ever before produced, 130,000,000 more than last year’s crop, and 80,000,000 more than the average crop for the last five years. The departments all agree in reporting the quality as superior, and, where it has been thrashed, they say the yield has more than jnet their calculations. This applies especially to the spring wheat sections of lowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The quality of spring wheat was never better. The spring wheat harvest has been late, but the weather has been most favorable, and grain is being cared for in excellent condition. The following figures are given as to spring wheat: State. Bushels.! State. Bushels. Minnesota.... 4',300,000 Wisconsin.... 21,000,000 lowa 32,000,000! Nebraska..... 31,000,000 Total spring Dakota 25,000,000 l wheat 150,000.000 The following is the winter-wheat estimate: S T - State. Bnshels.l State. Bushels. Kansas 48,000,00 u New. Jersey... 2,000,000 California.... 45,000,000]Utah 2,000,000 Ohio .J. 35,200,000 Arkansas 1,600,000 Indiana 35,000,000 Alabama. 1,500,000 Missouri 33,000,000 Delaware 1,000,000 Illinois 33,000,000, New Mexico.. 1.000,000 MichUan 22,500,000 Montana 1,000,000 Pennsylvania 22,500,000 Idaho ........ 1,000.000 Oregon 15,000.000 Maine. 600,000 New York.... 13,000,000 Arizona. 600,000 Kentucky.... 12,0 Xi.OOO Misslssipi.... 500,000 Maryland.... 9,ooo,oooVermont. 500,000 Tennessee.... 9,D00.000tN. Hampshire 200,000 Virginia 7,000,000 Nevada. 200,000 N. Carolina.. 6,000,000 Wyoming.... 200,000 Texas s,ooo,ooo.Connecticut.. 48,000 W. Virginia.. 4,000,900 Massachnsets 25,000 Georgia 4,000,000 Louisiana.... 25,000 Washington.. 4,ooo,oooFlorida 10,000 Colorado. 3,000,000 Rhode Island. 1,080 S. Carolina... 2,000,000, Total winter. 380,000,000 Total winter and spring 530,000,008