Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.

Final Estimate on Acreage and Yield* of Grain For 1893. The Government final report on crops of 1883 Is as follows: 'Total wheat acreage harvested, 34,639,118; average yield, 11.4 bushels per acre. Total yield, 396.131,72 c bushels; Total acreage of corn, 77,036.465: average, 22.5 bushels per acre. Total yield 1,619,495,131 bushels; total acreage of oats, 26,273.033. ? Total yield, 638.854.85 C busholse; total acreage of rye, 2.038,485. Total yield, 26.555,446 bushels; total acreage of barley, 3,220371. Total yield, 69,869,495 bushels; total acreage of buckwheat, 815,614. Total yield, 11.131,311 bushels; acreage of winter wheat now growing is 92.2 per cent, of harvested acreage of 1893, which would give about 21,500,000 aottg.