Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — THE WHEAT STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE WHEAT STATES.

Great Northwest Commonwealth that Produce an Enormous Yield. The wheat States are those of the Northwest, and first among them, in an ordinary year, with an average product of 65,000,0QP bushels, is Minnesota. Then comes North Dakota, adjacent, with an average product of 60,000,000, and South Dakota with 301000,000. The average of Kansas is about 25,000,000, and of Nebraska, 16,000,000. These axe the group of wheat States, but they are not the only ones, California producing in ordinary years wheat to the amount of 40,000,000 bushels, and Ohio having an average crop of 35,000,000. Wisconsin, which adjoins Minnesota, produces, relatively, very little wheat, but Michigan has, when the farming conditions are good, a large yield. Oregon has been increasing its wheat average considerably. Among the wheat States of the East Pennsylvania stands first, with an average crop of 20,000,000 bushels, Maryland following with 8,000,000, and New York with 7,000,000. There is comparatively little' wheat raised In New England, and scarcely.any in the Gulf States. Missouri is a large wheat-growing State, exceeding either Indiana or Illinois, but Arkansas, south of it, yields very little wheat. —Exchange.