The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-26

| iowa, ana MlnnesOtd. HE crop OF these
six states we estimate as follows:
Illinois, bushels. 25.OOO. 900
| Wisconsin, " 5000 900
| Indiana, " 10000, 600
| Michigan, l2,000,OO0
| Iowa, q" 10,000, 900
| Minnesota, 100000
Total, i" $4,000, 900
| Unquestionably these states have pro-
duced half the entire wheat of the coun-
try. Some, usually good authorities in
breadstuils statistics, make the crop as
| high as 20,O00,000 bushels. This is DOS
itively too large an estimate, as we can
show by the following comparative figures.
Our usual surplus is less than 1900, 900
bushels; we consume and use for food the
! balance of the crops. There can be no
mistake about this. 1t takes, by general
calculation at the East, four-and-a-halt
bushels to each inhabltant. Although
this is too high for many states, partcu-
larly where corn and rye are largely in
use, still we will adopt the figures for our
estimates. Our estimate would be for
the crop Of 1860:
| Consumption $4,000 900
| For soil and work $4,000 600
Surplus 100000
| Whole crop $4,000 600
Add to our surplus of 100000 BUSH
els 10000, 900 from Canada, and the real
surplus TO be shipped abroad from the
crop of 1860 will be 20,0O0,000 bushels,
or more than double the usual quantity.
Can we faily look for more?
In Wisconsin the yield has never be-
fore averaged more than twenty bushels
to the acre. 1t now averages twenty
eight bushels to the acre. Instances arc
constantly quoted in the local press of
the State, where farms have averaged
forty to fifty bushels. One gentleman,
in Walworth county, harvested seventy
! two bushels from one acre. In Illinois
the average yield of the State this year
is probably twenty bushels. The entire
grain crop of Illinois for 1860 will be
about 100 bushels to each inhabitant.-
| Perhaps no territory of the same extent
and population ever produced as much.
In wheat alone, the yield in Wisconsin
for 1860 is over thrty-one bushels for
every inhabitant, and over 200 bushels
for every voter at the last presidential
election. In England the production is
| five bushels per head; in Spain, four
bushels; in Ohio, ten; in New York,
| five and a half; i'll the United States
(lS50,) four and half; in 1860, six BUSH
els.
The yield of wheat in the states has
ranged from five to sixteen bushels per
acre. New York in early times produced
as high as twenty bushels. The country
round about Albany formerly produced 50
bushels Of wheat to the acre; it now barely
yields an average six bushels to the acre
Ohio, once the great wheat state of the
Union, producing in one years 2s, ,nn0, 600
of bushels, and sixteen bushels to the
acre, has gradually fallen off till now the
average is only seven bushels to the acre.
and her crop not more than iG,OO000O to
100000. In England the yield per acre
has been raised from thirteen to thirty
six bushels. Single fields have often pro
duced forty-five to sixty bushels. The
largest we remember to have seen record
ed was eighty eight bushels for one acre.
The depths of the ocean, the islands of the
sea, and the battle.felds Of the world,
have been ransacked for their deposits of
| phosphates, ammonia, and other rioh pro-
ducing properties in order to arrive at
this wonderful productiveness. In Wis
consin and Illinois the crop in lSGO is the
most remarkable ever harvested. Sever
al other states have unusually large
crops.