Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1899 — WHEAT IN FARMERS' HANDS [ARTICLE]

WHEAT IN FARMERS' HANDS

The Unsold Cereal Amounts to 192,000,000 Bushels. The Department of Agriculture Friday issued the following crop report: The consolidated returns of the various crop-reporting agencies of the Department of Agriculture show the amount of wheat remaining in farmers' hands on March 1 to have been the equivalent of 29.2 per cent, of last year's crop, or about 198,000,000 bushels. The corn In farmers' hands, as estimated, aggregates 800,500,000 bushels, or 41.6 per cent, of last year’s crop, against 782,800.000 bushels, or 41.1 per cent, on hand on March 1, 1898, and 1,164,000,000 bushels, or 51 per cent, on March 1, 1897. The proportion of the total crop shipped out of the country where grown is estimated at 20.6 pet cent., or about 396,000.000 bushels Of oats .there are reported to be about 283,000,000 bushels, or 38.7 per cent., still in ' farmers’ hands, as compared with 272,000,000 bushels, or 38.9 per cent., on March 1, 1897.