Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1903 — NO DEARTH OF BUCKWHEAT. [ARTICLE]

NO DEARTH OF BUCKWHEAT.

A Ten-Million Bushel Crop Is Now Being Harvested. Lovers of buckwheat cake-will be glad to learn that the largest buckwheat crop ever harvested is now being gathered in the two great buckwheat raising State* of the Union, New York and Pennsylvania.

Last year the buckwheat crop of the United States amounted to 9,566,966 bushels, valued at $5,341,413. Of this total New York produced 3,280,158 bushels, worth $1,869,690, with Pennsylvania a close second with a production of 3,188,402 bushels, worth $1,753,621. Compared with these the State of Maine makes a poor third, yielding 719,760 bushels.

Twenty-four States figure as buckwheat producers, the grain growing aa far south as Georgia and as far west as Oregon. Considerably more than twotliirds of the total production is always from New York and Pennsylvania, to which nearly every State in the Union pays tribute for the delectable griddle cake. 4. The total of the croji for the present year will certainly exceed 10,009,000 bushels. The four counties of Armstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland and Butler, in Pennsylvania, will yield more than 2,000,000 bushels, these counties forming the buckwheat belt of the United States and yielding nearly four-fifths of the crop produced in the Keystone State. The production of New York generally exceeds that of Pennsylvania, but ite cultivation is there more generally distributed.