Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1871 — Agricultural Report. [ARTICLE]

Agricultural Report.

The monthly report of the#Commissioner of Agriculture for January, contains a table showing the average yield of corn, wheat, rye, oats, buckwheat and potatoes, as reported by the correspondents of the department, from estimates made in several of the counties of each of the different States. From this table we learn that the average yield of corn in South Carolina was 8.9 bushels per acre, white in Vermont it was 89.6 bushels; in Wisconsin,3o bushels. In most of the. Northern States the average is reported as over 30 bushels to the acre, while in the South the average falls generally between 20 and 25 bushels per acre. The lowest average of wheat is 7 bushels per acre in South Carolina, and the highest 19.5 bushels per acre in Oregon. Wisconsin’s average is given at 13.4 The Northern States generally average from 12 to 17 bushels per acre; the Southern States from 7to 10 bushels. The average yield of oats in Wisconsin is given as 27.9 bushels per acre; the highest being 35.5 in California, and the lowest in South Carolina, where the yield was only 9.7 per acre. The highest average yield of potatoes reported was in Texas, which is given at 128 bushels per acre; the lowest yield was 45 bushels per acre, in Indiana; white the yield in Wisconsin is given as 57 bushelsper acre. Tne reports from which these figures are compiled are necessarily meager and imperfect, as there are seldom more than one correspondent in a county, and many counties have no correspondent at all,- yet there is great value in such reports, imperfect though they be. They show that the popular estimation of the yield per acre is too high by a large per cent.