The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-12
TEL1..EGRAP 7IC
The Corn Crop.

Milwaukee, 1O.-The annual corn crop
review Of Robert Lindblom q Co,
Chicago, wss completed on Saturday.
The review comprises reporta from nearly
one thousand points in leading corn
states Inquiries were sent during the
last days of May to eleven hundred
points IN the principal corn states, ten IN
number, asking information concerning
the present condition of corn, the acreage
planted, damage by cold and wet, etc. A
comprehensive summary of the answers
is here given. The condition of corn is
generally very good. There Is q large
increase in the acreage planted This year,
especially in winter wheat states, where
Thousands Of acres Of ruined wheat have
b5en ploRed up and planted IN corn. The
damage done By the cold weather ard
rains in May and the latter part OF
April appears to have amounted in most
cases to but little more than delaying
planting, and retsrdipE the growth Of
grain after planting. Tie TRrm weather
which set IN about June lst changed the
aspect OF affairs very much. Warm,
bright weather came just in time 10 do
| its work Had it been delayed ten days
longer, the result would have been dIs-
astrous As it is there is promise OF
large yields, aud with good weather the
promise will not fail OF fulflment. In
sections where, because of the poor quail
| ity Of seed or the bad condition of soil,
corn did not come up the full acreage,
has in nearly all cases been replanted.
| The slate of Kansas promi4es the largest
increase of yield. Kansas produced, in
'82 157, O0O, 600 bushels Of corn; this year
it is estimated, being based upon the
known increase Of acreage and general
outlook, that the production will fall
but little below 200, COO, coo Missouri
will increase her production in proportion
and the percent Of Increase in Illinois
will not be much less. Ohio it is estim'
ated will produce nearly 500, 600. 0G0. o.
forty eight counties il Wisconsin
Twenty -eight report an increase iniacresg'
iOf from 2 to 25 per cent, while the beE
two report less acreage than last year
Nearly every county now fends favor
able report of the outlook. OF thirty
counties in Kansas, representing fairly
different sections of the state, twenty
TIRES report en- increase Of acreage o
from 10 tn IS per cent; and three
slight decrease The reports are IN
ifoFmly good IS TO the general outlook
OF thirty-one counties in Illinois, cover
ing widely different portions Of the state
thirteen report an increase of acreag
ranging from to 80 per cent, ant
five g decrease Of from to % per cent
jOf fifteen Indiana counties nine repor
an increased acreage, while none report
decrease. In Indiana the frost did som
damage, but wherever corn Vss cat +
1.-THE ground, replsnting has replaced tn
damage. or thirty-one counties il
Iowa eighteen give an increase in acreag
lflOm 10 to % per cent, and three Sigh
Idecrease. OF sixteen Ohio counties fv
igiYe an increase from to 80 per cent
and three a decrease of froE7 8 to 80 pc
cent. Wisconsin makes . more unfsvor
able showing than any Of the ten States
OF fifteen counties in southern Wisconsi
four give an increased acreage and five
decrease in acreage. UnseRsonRbl
weather has been the sole trouble i
Wisconsin. Planting has been Gelaye
until, in aome localities, it was too lst
to raise mora than fodder. A doze
kentucky counties. With but tw
exceptions, report an incresR
in Minnesota seven give an increase
acreage, and four 8 decrease. With th
exception Of Wisconsin each of the state
covered reports the general outlook good
Only two counties Of the entire len state
report damage from worms. The sggre
gate yield of the ten states is an increase
acreage, aud the general favorable stan
warrants the belief that the growing GRO
will exceed the crop of 1882 ut lesst
lpsr cent.