Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1874 — Interesting Crop Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Crop Statistics.

The National Crop Reporter (Jacksonville, Ill.) publishes estimates of the percentage of the"last crops of bqjley and rye In the hands of the producers on January 15, in the States of Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin, The percentage of barley on hand at the date named jn the dye States, which produced in 1873 some 9,500,000 bushels, is placed at 80 3-10 per cent. The rate oI consumption, by which is meant both shipments and home consumption, Is the highest in Kansas and the lowest in Wisconsin, being respectively 75 and GOper cent. The percentage of rye on hand averages 26 6-10 per cent., or a trifle less than 1,148,000 bushels. The consumption is the heaviest in Kansas, being 80 per cent., and the lightest in Wisconsin, being 70 per cent Returns relative to the cbndition of the growing grain indicate slightly increased prospects for February 1, as compared with the indica'tlons on January 15. Thr San Francisco Bulletin says there are two or three thousand outlaws in the mountains of California, who live by robbery and violence. They occasionally make a raid on some village and strip it of valuables. They are quite- secure from arrest in their mountain fastnesses.