Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-26
CORN.
December Report, Department of Agri-
culture.
CORN.

The returns Of November make
the corn crop only 2 per cent. shor,
OF the great crop Of last year, and
fully SO per cent. greater than tn.
crop Of 1874. The aggregate is 4,
POS, 100000 bushels. Less than
per cent. of the crop is raised il,
New England, scarcely in the
Middle States, 90 in the Southern, A
in the Ohio basin, and % west OF
the Mississippi.
The product of the South is 10,
100000 bushels greater than las,
Year, that of New England is 500.
600 greater, and there is less in the
Middle and Western States. 1t is
100000 greater than IN 1870, and
yet the percentage of the total c,op
of thesc States is only 90 against %
in the census-year, because the in
crease has been still greater in the
West. In 1850, the proportion OF
these States was AZ per cent. of the
aggregate, and, il 1860, 33. Thus,
while the South is increasing it's corn
product, there is profitable opportuni
ty for much larger increase.
The States of the Ohio ba>in, seven
in number, including Michigan and
| Wisconsin, increased their proper
ton from 80 per cent. i'll 1850 to Al
in 1850, and since that date continue
to advance their proportions, the per
| IN 1910 ,,l ~ L.,
present time, Notwithstanding the
more rapid progress of corn grow.
ing in the States of the Missouri
Valley.
These States, Minnesota, Iowa.
Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska, pro-
duced only ! per cent. in 1850, adj
vanring to Is IN 1860, and 81 in
1870, and % i'll 1876. The increase
III Kansas has been most rapid Of
late, nearly eqnaling in amount i,
tins year the crop of the much NOR,
populous State Of Missouri. Iowa
rs yet.grows more than tourtenths Of
the crop OF this section.
| The States producing less than il,
1875, are New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, those of the Atlantic coas
from New York to North Carolina
Mississippi, Tennessee, Michigan
Illinois, lowa,and Missouri. Illinoi,
is credited with about 100000, OOO.-
Next in rank are Ohio, Indiana, Mis-
Sonri. and Kansas. These six State.
produce six tenths of the total pro
duet. Tennessee, which once hel,
the highest rank ia the country,nov
stands first in the Southern States
followed by Texas, Alabama an,
Georgia.
by far the heaviest rate of increase
Is per cent, has been in Wisconsin
where the crop OF last year was :
very po"r one.
The extension of this culture west
ward cuiiainues to- be rapid. Thi.
year, the Missouri Valley, together
with she. western half of the Uppe
Mississippi, yields two-thirds Il,
mach rs the area tIom the river east
3arti TO PENNSYLVANIA, including the
States on both sides of the Ohio.
In quality, the crop is superior t,
its predecessors. New Hampshlr,
is an exception i'll New England
In New Jersey. there was injury b,
drought. North Carolina aud Ford:
are slightly below the standard; an,
slight interiority Is indicated in Mis-
sissippi, Louisiaia, Arkansas, Tenn
essec, Missouri, and Nebraska. II
some portions of the South and Wes
there is complaint OF rotten anc
worm-eatcn corn. In all the States
the crop, rs Il whole, reached tul
maturity without injury by frost.
There has been an increase of area
in all sections, aggregating abou,
100000 acres, the advance very
slight in the Gulf States from Ala
bama to Louisiana, and scarcely per
ceptible in the Middle States 1t is
largest west Of the Missouri WIS
consin shows the heaviest increase
in the Northwest, and Texas and
Georgia in the South.