Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1906 — GREAT WHEAT CROP. [ARTICLE]

GREAT WHEAT CROP.

Experts Declare Yield Thia Year WiJI Be a Record-Breaker. ' » National prosperity far in advance of the highest known recottls is indicated in the crop estimate of H. V. Jones, the Minneapolis crop estimator, who gave out his annual bulletin at noon Thursday. The winterwheatproduction of the United States he gives as 420,000,000 bushels, 60,000,000 bushels over last year, and the record crop of winter wheat ever produced. Cotton and coni are in exceedingly good condition, and with a hot July and August may also break the record; but nothing but a wet harvest can lower the wheat crop, says the Jones estimate. , In company .with John IngfiSyWr. Jones has just completed a careful tour of the winter wheat producing regions of the country. Grain merchauts and railroads throughout the country awaited the publication of his report with great interest, Wall street and the Southwestern markets cheering when It was bulletined. Summaries of the report were sent to Liverpool and England, where it was received with wonder. The crop of Illinois is estimated at 28,000,000 bushels, of Indiana 38,000,000, and Ohio 32,000,000, all much In excess of last year. Michigan Is slightly" behind. The West and Southwest double their production. Upon the crop production the whole material prosperity of the country for the year depends, the report proceeds, and especially the welfare of the railroads, which are peculiarly dependent on the crops. Wide extension throughout the Northwest rind Southwest is indicated, and general The report gives Texas this year 14,000,000 bushels, or twice the yield of last year; Oklahoma, 28,000,000 bushels, or more than double the yield last year, and a record crop for the new State; Indian Territory, 4,000,000 bushels; Kansas, bushels, about the same as last year; Nebraska, 35,000,000 bushels, altout the same as last year; Missouri, 30,000,000 bushels, same as last year. California is given 2,000,000 bushels, or twice last year’s crop. On this basis the Southwest raises about 25,000,000 bushels more than last year. The Southern and Eastern States and Oregon make up the balance, all the States having a good average yield except Michigan, which is probably the lightest in average yield. For Oklahoma government acreage is increased in this estimate 400,000 bushels. The Canadian Northwest has the best promise for a crop that country has ever known. The acreage is the largest, and with favorable conditions the yield of wheat will surpass all previous years. The official estimate of the Canadian Department of Agriculture gives the acreage seeded to wheat at 13,141,537 acres. On the bSsfFof twenty bushels per acre it suggests a harvest of 62,840,000 bushels in Manitoba, and in the Canadian Northwest of 95,000,000 bushiMs. The increase in the acreage under cultivation in wheat is 474,000 acres. There is also a larger area under oats and barley than in previous years. There lias been plenty of rain, and the crop is reported as in the best of condition. == - -- -- --