Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1877 — The Middle Wheat Belt. [ARTICLE]

The Middle Wheat Belt.

The wonderful yield not onTy of wheat but of the other grain crops of the farm in 'Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky furnished the Cincinnati Commercial with a text from which it arrives at the following tabulated coniclusion: iJnshels. ■ Obio, average yield 17,300,000 Indiana, average yield —. .115,000,000 Kentucky, average yield 5.000,000 Good-jndges.estluiatc this season’s as liclovr: ■ ’ Bushels. Ohio. ~.. ~....> *3,000,000 Indiana 22.000,000 Kentucky i 18,000,000 Total for these three states 00,000,000 The above estimate is a moderate one. There arc those, with good data from which to reckon, who make tho totil yield for the three states 10,000,000 bushels more. Takingtlle fir at estimate ns the true one, arid there are 20,000,009 bushels of wheat in the states named over and abovo what is needed fbr home consumption. Of coqrso farmers will also realize from what is consumed in the towns and by the nun-wheat, growing class, a by no means small amount. The acreage sown and the yield in oilier states is quite as large as in the three named. Throughout the entire north and west au immense wheat crop good of quality has been harvested. Of this immense crop Chicago will receive and hold the large-t share, and thus with the influx of grain from the northwest proper, cannot fail to have a depressing effect upon the market if it is rushed in at once. In the proper holding back of his produce, lies the secret of good prices. The G'onimeicial in regard to the corn crop says, that though it will be a on nth yet before the crop will be barrat'fofj, It Js far enough along and sufficiently promising to mske a good yield almost certain. Karly in the summer the crop was backward, and some alarm felt, but the latter rain and favorable weather have brought' the staple crop ofthe central states up to a condition of, if anything, more than usual promise. From three to five million bushels of oorn, grown between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi, are sold annually in foreign countries. This forms, however, bat a small fraction of the entire yield, the crop going largely into beef and pork, and to supply Southern states. The yield in Ohio averages about one hundred million bushels a year, and in Indiana not far from the same amount. The crop is a staple and n pretty sure one, nnd this year likely to be au unusually good ouo. It is an important item among the farmer’s resources, and may be counted with the wheat crop as among the things bidding fair to give a much needed impulse to the business of the country.—Prairie Farmer. *v