Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1888 — ABUNDANCE OF CORN. [ARTICLE]

ABUNDANCE OF CORN.

The Largest American Yield on Record. Washington Special. The returin of the yield of the corn made to the Department of Agriculture indicate a yield per acre quite as large as that of 1885 J and larger than any other crop since that of 1880. The aggregate gTown on a larger area, will exceed that of any previous American product, being very close to two billion bushels, or about thirty-two bushels per capita, which lias been exceeded in •previous years. The corn surplus States average yield is as follows: Ohio, 35.2 bushels; Indiana, 35 bushels; Illinois, 36.2 bushels; lowa, 37 bushels; Missouri, 31 bushels; Kansas, 27 bushels; Nebraska, 36 bushels. These seven States produce 64 per cent, of the crop aggregate. The general average will fall somewhat under 27 bushels. There is a good supply of maize in nearly all parts of the South, so that comparatively little will be required from the West. The yields of the A:Untie States are moderate; seriously reduced by frost on the northern border. After three years of low yields, potatoea give an average of about 80 bushels per acre, or nearly the rate of yield of 1879. The averages of prominent potatogrowing States are as follows: Maine, 110 bushels, New York, 82; Pennsylvania, 82; Ohio, 80; Michigan, 75; Illinois, 80; lowa, 90; Minnesota, 95; Dakota, 80; Nebraska, .80. Tbe yield has been increased in the South. It is high in the Northern belt Territories. The total product on the basis of these averages is about 195,000,000 bushels, or 61,000,01)0 mere than the estimated product of 1887. The average yield of buckwheat is approximately 12 bushels to the acre, and the crop nearly 11,000,000 bushels. The average for New York is 11 bushels: Pennsylvania, 14 bushels; Michigan, 12.5 bushels; Indiana, 11.4 bushels; Illinois, 12.6 bushels; Wisconsin, 9.5 bushels; Minnesota, 11 bushels; lowa, 10.8 bushels; Missouri, 10.7 bushels; Kansas, 9.6 bushels; Nebraska,.ll.3. Hay is a crop slightly above an average yield, or 1.22 tons, per acre. It has been nowhere seriously injured by drought. There is a strong tendency to increase of area in the South, and the yields upon cultivated areas rather than natural meadows are relatively large.