Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-12-16
OUR BIG CORN CROP.
What Illinois Yield Promises to be
This Year.


ter what.
The state board of agriculture has is
sued bulletin from the advance sheets
of the Illinois crop report for the month
of December TO meet the demand on the
department from every portion of the
state for information as TO the yield and
quality of the corn crop and the acreage
and condition of the wheat seeded for
harvest next summer
In the northern divi ion the average
yield per acre is SO bushels, as compared
with 20 bushels for last year; an in
crease of about so per cent in the yield
The corn area for the northern division
was sl2 900 .sacres. making total yield
of 100. s77 900 bushels for the division.
The quality Is of higher grade that last
year. as little or none of it was hurt by
the frost
In the central division the crop has
made the largest average yield per acre
with one exception; of any of the
past 10 years. the yield being 40 bushels.
as compared with 33 bushels of last sea-
son, an increase of 25 per cent in the
average yield per acre. The corn area
for this division wss 2 1873. Sal acres, aud
the total yield s5 341 $40 bushels. The
quality is much better than an average for
term of years. and the crop has been
gathered with great care and 10 fine con-
diiion.
The southern division of the state suf-
fered from want of raiu during the pc
Rod when the growing crop most needed |
moisture, which had the effect to reduce |
the yield per acre. although the average,
20 bushels. is about 80 per cent better
than that of last season. The corn area |
in this division was sos coo acres and the |
total yield %. 1880 bushels. The
quality is about up TO an average for this |
division.
Take the state as whole the area de- |
voted to the corn crop was 1854 600 |
acres at an average yie,d of 81 bushels |
per acre, which gives total yield of 2l5,-
395, 800 bushels for the entire crop
The average market price paid at the
local warehouses and the railway stations
of the state is SO cents per bushel. which
is cents less than the average price paid
last season.
WINTER WHAT
The area sae6ai - ,b;a
fall is per cent larger than the area of
1891. In northern Illinois the 1899 area
is six points below that of 1881; in cen"
trsl Illinois il is four points above, and
in the southern division of the state sew.
en- points higher than last season.
There was tendency TO increase the
area of winter wheat quite materially this
fall, and considerable ground was pre-
pared for it, but it was so very dry that
large portion OF it was not seeded. The
drought also initiated sgainst the growth
of the plant. much of that seeded failing
to germinste at all, while that that did
start is so weak that it is not in good
condition to stand hard winter The
November rains were verS beneficial to
the growing plant and caused some of the
seed which had lain in the ground for
weeks TO sprout, but the stand as g whole
is very uneven, sid the outlook for a
wheat crop in Illinois in 1892 is not very
encouraging.
The reports of crop correspondents give
the condition of winter wheat in tie
northern division of the state as 80 per
cent of the usual Dec. average, and So
per cent in the central division. while in
the southern division, where the drought
was most severe, the condition Is &c
| points less than q sessOnsble average.
A few counties repor, slight damage to
wheat by the Hessisn fly. VIZ: Randolph,
Jasper, Morgan, Christian and Knox, but
the injury done is so Slight tho, it should
not be taken into account in estimating
the crop.