Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-10-09
Agricultural.


Corn.
This years corn crop is estimated at nearly
two thousand million bushels e, 900, 600, 0OO).
II this estimate is approximately correct, the
crop is the largest ever grown but we fail TO
get much Of an idea Of the quantity from the
figures alone. How much Is III A million
is a number that il is somewhat difficult to
comprehend but this is 1000 times a mill
ion. The population of the United States is
now about 81, 600, 900 the corn crop is there
fore about 3G bushels TO each inhabitsnt or
1870 bushels to each family OF FIVE persons.
At 80 cents bushel the crop is worth 81, 0O0,-
DOC, 600, or more than ten times the assessed
value of all the real and personal property in
Vermont under the old law Of assessment six
times it's present assessed value, and q little
more than three times its true valuation. The
value Of the crop at 80 cents a bushel is about
four times the taxable property in the state
of Maine, and about twice it's estimated true
valuation. 1t is worth more than all the prop
erty owned in Virginia. and is about equal in
value to the whole of Kentucky and all the
property that is In it. II the value of the
crop was divided equally among all the fami-
lies Of the United States, each family would
receive about 500; and IL divided equally
among all the inhabitants the share OF each
man, woman and child would be about $1S.
II this entire crop was divided equally among
all the inhabitants of Vermont, estimating
the number at one-thrd of million 1888, 333),
it would give to each person nearly G,OO0
bushels of corn, and to each family nearly
80, 600 bushels, of the matchmaking the
price per bushel the same as before-of $4,000
to each inhabitant and SIS, 900 to each family.
The area planted to corn in the United
States is equal to nearly twice the surface of
New England. More than five times as many
bushels of corn as Of wheat have been raised
the present season. The product of corn and
all other kinds Of grain in Europe per CAPT.
ia, is less than half that of corn alone in this
country.
II a continuous corn-barn extended from
New York to San Francisco, it would have to
be made large enough to hold % bushels 10
each foot In length to contain the corn crop
of 1885. II strewn upon the earth in a sin
gle straight line, at the rate of one bushel to
a foot, no continent would be wide enough or
long enough to take more than a small frsc-
ton Of the crop. 1t would make line that,
on the 43d degree of latitude, would reach
more than 20 times around the earth Store
our 1000, 900, 900 bushels of corn in -four bar
rels, and set them together as closely as pos
sible, in single line, and it will take more
than GO lines of barrels, extending from Bos-
ton to the Pacific coast, to hold the crop.
For the past seven years the annual corn
crop of the United States has exceeded l.
100000, 900 bushels, with the exception of
1881, when it was estimated at l, POO, 600, 900.
Last years crop was estimated at l 800, OOO,-
OOO-about $1,000, 900 bushels less than the
present estimate of the Department of Agri-
culture for this year. The per cent of in.
crease of the corn crop has greatly exceeded
the per cent of increase in population. Ac.
oording to the census of 1850, the corn crop
was 500, 900, 900 bushels 1860 s39, 600, 600;
1870, 761, 100000 1880, 1866, 900, 600.