Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — WHEAT CROP ESTIMATE. [ARTICLE]

WHEAT CROP ESTIMATE.

Figured on Threshing Returns Indicate a Yield of 580,000,000 Bushels. The Orange Judd Farmer, in its final estimate of the year’s wheat crop, says that figures based on actual threshing returns indicate a total yield of 589,000,000 bushels, of which 373,630,000 is winter and 215,470,000 bushels spring wheat. \Yith the exception of Illinois and Missouri, the winter wheat yield represents the full capacity of the soil. The spring wheat yield in Minnesota and the Dakotas has proven a disappointment, the aggregate being only 129,000,000 bushels. The shortage there is in a measure counterbalanced by tbe good yield in Nebras-

ka, Oregon and Washington. The report says the corn crop is exceedingly disappointing at an outside estimate of 1,750,000,000 bushels. Drought during the past two months reduced the average condition from 82.3 a month ago to 78.9 on Oct. 1. An average of oats yield of 28.7 bushels per acre suggests a crop of 814,000,000 bushels, 100,000,000 more than last year.