Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-11-21

By this time all the farm products
ot the present year, with perhaps
t,o exception OF an occasional field
Of corn, hayo been gathered and eth
-, sold Or securely garnered against
tie coming winter and in order
that tb5 Her1id readers maybe better
able ~ form az Intelligent estimate
81 the prof able rise or decline Of the
marle value Of farm produce, and
govern themselves accordingly, we
have takeu ,ho iroube To collect and
las nclore them The best and most
trustworthy information on this IN
tcrlstiug subject.
1t can hardly 10 expected that
country embracing so much territory
as ours, with 50 many different vari-
cites OF soil and climate, could pro
duce anything like Il uniform yield
Of grain and vegetables throughout
the whole domain, some sections
yioldIng moro and others less than
All average crop, so that it is impos>
siblc to calculate the approximate
price Of grain from a knowledge Of
any one section.
The yield of wheat the present
year in some of the Eastern States is
much larger than that Of 1870, but
in the Western, and in most of the
Southern States where wheat is rails
ed, there ia considerable ola decrease
IN the number of bushels to the acre,
40 that the general average is about
: per cent. less than last years crop
the percentage OF the several states
being ~ follows: Maine, 81 New
Hampshire, I06 Vermont, 81 Con-
necti cut, 100 Massachusetts, l04 !;
New York, l04 New Jersey, 125 !;
Pennsylvania, 1913 Delaware, 100 /;
Maryland, 100; Virginia, So North
Carolina, 50 South Carolina, 60
Georgia, 65; West Virginia, 1913
Kentucky, 70 Missouri, 1O2 Ala
bama, Il Mississippi, 81; Texas,
90. Arkansas, So; Tennessee, 60 j;
Illinois, 90; Indiana, 90; Ohio, 80 /;
Michigan, 40; Wisconsin, 90; Min.
nesota, IS, Iowa, 90 Kansas, l13 /;
Nebraska, SO California, 90; Ore
gon, l0l. The quality 10 most Of the
Western States is much better than
tho same Of last year.
Ihe corn crop is oil that could be
icsircd, taking the country OF large,
aud considerably exceeds the yield
If 1870.
In some states premature tr0sts
have materially injured the crops by
preventing mature development, es.
pecially in Maine, Vermont, and por-
tons OF Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
New Jersey, while IN othors, the
brought OF mid-summer and autumn
produced a similar result; but more
favored portions Of the country great.
" ogerbeianco all those lelinquincios,
ID that tho harvest u corn is abund-
autly equal u the demand for that
staple farm commodity,
fhe quality Of oats produced this
ocasOn is about the same rs that OF
Inst year. Ia the South, drought AMI
rust greatly injured the quality aud
diminished the quantity OF this crop,
and in Maine, grasshoppers proved
very destructive but in New Hamp-
shire, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island,
Connecticut New York Mississippi,
Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin,
Iowa, and Kansas, the yield is very
heavy, considerable in advance of last
years crop. Wisconsin, in particular,
is said to have produced the finest
harvest Of oats ever raised in the
state in some cases reaching nine
ty-hve bushels per acre.
Buckwheat Is comparatively
poor crop, all over the country in
all the Northern States being great
ly damaged by the heavy frosts of
September 2l, 22, 20, aud 80 80 that
those having buckwheat for sale
need not be IN any particular hurry
about selling for fear of decline in
the market this season, the probabil.
tiles being that it will yay TO wait n
little for the rise in value which may
be safely expected.
The product OF barley is superior
TO the crop OF last year in New
Hampshire, Vermont, New York,
Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa. Kan.
sas, aud Oregon, but in other States
the yield is mnch smaller, making on
the whole less than tn average yield
in quantity, but very fair sample
in quality.
In the Middle and Eastern States,
with the exception pi ermont and
Delaware, the potato crop is more
than an average. In Kentucky, Ill-
inois, Missouri, and Indiana, 1t is al
most q failure while in the extreme
North and West potatoes arc in great
abundance, especially in those fields
which were planted early. Wiscon>
Gin can boast Of q better crop than
tor several years past.
Beef cattle are much more numer.
Oue than last year, and to the quanti-
" OF hogs there appears to be no lin.
Il.