Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1879 — 150.000,000 Bushels of Grain. [ARTICLE]

150.000,000 Bushels of Grain.

From the American Agricultural. 150,000,000 bushels of grain at a single port! Some striking figures are presented in the reports of grain receipts at N. Y. City alone. Reducing the 4,075,271 barrels of flour to its grain equivalent, and We find that during 1878, the canal and railroads delivered at this port no less than 149,270,128 bushels of grain of all kinds, against 98,637,058 bushels in the previous year (1877), a gain in round numbers of 50,000,000 bushels, or 60 per cent! —strong confirmation of our statements from time to time of the great crops of 1878. But tew person can have an adequate idea of even one million bushels. Here is a help to one’s conception: Load this 150,000,000 bushels upon wagonfe, 30 bushels to each; arrange them in line, giving each team about 26| feet (26.4), and the line of teams carrying this grain would extend 25,000 miles— or, dear around the world !