Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1901 — Hope For Corn Crop. [ARTICLE]

Hope For Corn Crop.

John B. Conner, former state . statistician, says there is no occae--1 sion to despair of the corn crop. IHe has prepared the following statement: “In 1894 the greatest droukt in many years occurred in this state There was so little rain in J une, July and August that the opinion prevailed that there would not be a fourth of a crop of corn. The average rainfall for that year, as shown by the weather stations in all quarters of the State and reported to the weather bureau of this city, was as follows: Inches rainfall in June, 2.62; in July, 1.43; in Aug. 1.80. “This was so much below the normal precipitation during the month corn is usually made that it alarmed all as to the result on the crop o’ that year. At the time it was predicted that the yield would fall far below a fourth of a cropThis, in view of the fact that the weather statistics in a long period of years by the national bureau here show the following as the normal rainfall for those months for Indiana: “Average inches in many years, June 4.04; in July, 3.32; in August 2.98.

"The average rainfall for the State in a series of years in September was 3.04. Bat in 1894 the average for September was above the normal, being 3.20 inches, and while much of the corn had remained undeveloped to this period, it was generally observed that year that the September rains made a large part of the corn crop. The result was that Indiana had a cron crop in 1894 of 96,205,132 bushels, which was considerably over half an average crop, the average for six years, 1895 to 1900, inclusive, being 145,426,568 bushels. In view of these things there is no occassion yet to despair of the corn crop of 1901. In June and July of this year the average rainfall to July 30, has been 4.33, whereas, daring June and July of 1894 in was only 4.05 for these two months. We still have August before us, and finally September to our hopes upon, according to the experience of 1894.”