Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — Great Grain Crops of 1904. [ARTICLE]

Great Grain Crops of 1904.

From the government’s latest figures • corn yield of 2,464,000,000 bushels is Indicated for 1904, as compared with a harvest of 2,244,000,000 bushels in 1903. The com crop never was larger than this year except in 1902, when it was 2,523,000,000 bushels. Wheat is placed* at 551,000,000 bushels, as compared with 675,000,000 for 1898, 748,000,000 for 1901, 670,000,000 for 1902, and 637,000,000 for 1903, the only years which exceeded 1904’s yield. The oats crop for this year will reach 887,000,000 bushels, which is the biggest harvest of that cereal ever gathered except in when the crop was 987.000,000 bushels. Barley, with 140,000,000 bushels, breaks the record. Rye, 27,000,000 bushels, has been beaten only in 1901, 1902 and 1903, when there was a slightly larger yield than this years. The 15,000,000-bushel crop of buckwheat goes ahead of all former figures. Potatoes, with a yield of 305,000,000 bushels, also beats all the figures of the past. Cotton, of course, with its 12,000,000bale crop, breaks all records.