Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — Indiana’s Big Crops. [ARTICLE]

Indiana’s Big Crops.

Hon. William A. Peelle, chief of the Bureau of Statistics, has compiled the tables relating to the cereal crops of Indiana for the year 1891, and, in discussing the r< suits, declares that the several crop yields are the best that have been known for years. “Hardly in the history of Indiana,” says he, “and certainly not since the Indiana Bureau of Statistics was organized, has there been such a generally prolific yield of the cere <1 crops as that which'characterized the present year. While tire conditions were at times unfavorable and there were strong probabilities that the growing crops would be more or less injured, the changes in climatic conditions came in time to overcome, or, at least, greatly ameliprate the threatened damage, and the results show a crop year which may properly be called phenomenal. Indiana has harvested some magnificent crops of wheat, some excellent crops of corn, and has grown some exceptionally large crops of clover and timothy hay, oats, barley and rye, but it is seldom that all of these crops have been as abundant as in 1891, when each' outstripped the average of former years.” The number of bushels raised according tp Mr. Peolto’s estimate were: Wheat 58,305,766; corn, 125,093,649; oats, 23,123,189; barley, 808, 148; buckwheat, 151,450; flaxseed, 116,460; clover hay,tons, 2,109,814; timothy hay, 2,034,542; Irish potatoes, bushel. 7,888,701; sweet potatoes, 247,085.