Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-07-23
GREAT WHEAT CROP.
.asussrEn oo's rnENomuNAL yir,u
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dram iIss 81 Rusnsi- to tho Acre

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| dram uss 81 Husnsi- TO tho Acre
| Enormous crops In slI the DIsttIoty.
Tho crop reports from over tho country
show that " tho outlook for all kinds OF
crops was never better" But in no part of
the entire country is there more satisfaction
expressed Mt tho yield of wheat than in
our own LANCASTER county. Tho farmers
here, have harvested and commenced
thrcshiug thoir wheat, and tho universally
Expressed opinion IL that never before
within tho memory of tho oldest farmer
was the yiod 80 large. Tho season was
| unusually favorable for it's growth. From
the timo of seeding, last tall, until the
! ripening of tho crop, II was without
blomish-no rust, no fly, mono of tho vi
cissttudcs to which the crop is sometimes
subjected
| Heats tho Record.
a comparatively small part Of the crop
has yet been threshCd, but that which has
been, turns out phenOmoually well, not
only in quantity, but in quality, tho berry
being large and bright and heavy. b. j
McGrann, of Mannheim township has
threshod out twenty acres, which yielded
| l,O25 bushols-5l, bushels to the aoro--a
yield that, for the size Of the field, Is, we
| N'''''', "hNAh'Alloh w NuNNNuulNs ~ crop
! of go bushels from tho samo ground not
many years ago was considered enormous.
We hear Of u nine acre lot in the south.
western part Of the county that yielded
400 bushels-an average OF sos bushels TO
the acre.
CIoso to FIuy BushoIs.
Mr.. Swartly, whoso farm Is on the Har-
risburg turnpike, thTeshed 10 acres tha,
yielded over 700 huShels-iS bushels to
the acre. James Stewart gots uCarly 80
bushels TO the acre. Emanuel 7. Keller is
not yet dono threshing, but Judging fIom
that which has beer thrcshCd his yield will
not be less than - or 81 bushcls to the
acre. Abram llirsh has 80 aCtCs that yields
over 80 bushels to the aero. Samuel by lor
aud James Lapp, both OF Lcacock town
ship, have thrcshcd out over 80 bushels to
the aero. Mono OF these farmers expected
their yield To DO 80 large as Il turned out
Many other farmers, who havO not yet
threshed their crOps. say that they are
at least equal II not better than they ever
grew before, and they expect from 30 to
40 bushels per aero.
The poorest yield that we hear reported
~ u siIty-th aero crop IN Mannheim
township, from which only l. bushels to
the acre was threshed-but this Ia an ex.
ceptiOnal case, in which tho land was but
| ngutH manuTCu, ana IN which there
were other unfay yOrablc conditions, and It
docs not in any apprucinbo do .
gree affect the almost universally
favorable reports that reach us, not on y
from this but from neighhOTiug counties.
Persons who have passed through the
Cumberland Valley claim that the wheat
in that fertile region is a. least equal 70
our own.
J. W. johnson, Csq stats tina. Ee had
this year forty eight acres OF whea, On
his farm in Drumorc township and his
farmer says ii is he best crop of wheLt
ever grown in that township, H. Las not
} yet thresbed much OF it, but from what
: has been threshed, no believes II will yiold
from 80 TO 40 bushels to the acre Twelve
acres of It was grown 10 land that for fouI
preceding years was planted in tobacco
: aud In those four years yielded 81 900 per
acre, that is, au average Of $3.50 per acre
per year in tobacco. Ilo used baruyard
; manure and commercial fertilizers on his
l tobacco, but no fertilizers 70: his wheat,
which is OF the golden Russian variety and
D which he believes vii! yiold 30 bushels pei
t acre. He will plant the same field this ial
10 wheat aud will use no fertilizer of any
kind.
The great yield in Lancaster county, {
large proportion OF which was grown or
!. tobacco land. would teGm to eiiectualll
dispose of the statement that the con
J.. tinued growth of tobacco doteriOrateS arc
0 wears out the soil, uniting l. for ihI
s growth Of cereals or grasses.