Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-11
GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.
The Corn Crop Throughout the Coun-
try Has Been Unsatisfactory.

The Corn Crop Throughout the Coun-
try Has Been Unsatisfactory.
WASHINGTON, Nov. l0.-The crop re-
port issued by the agricultural depart
ment shows the average yield for corn
in the seven states, as follows: ONO.
20; Indiana, ~; Illinois. %; Iowa, %;
Missouri, %; Kansas. 23.3; Nebraska,
1871. The average yield of buckwheat
is Ia bushels per acre. In New York,
l4.7; Pennsylvania, 14.5: Wisconsin,
1875; Iowa, 1917. The crop returns for
November to the department of agri-
culture with those of October indicate
the yield of principal food products
and point approximately to the per-
fected estimates at the close OF the
year. The yield Of corn averages, by
November returns, PA bushels per
acre, and promises an aggregate pro-
duction OF Il little more than GOO, 000,-
900 bushels, while the other wheat, by
rne returns of lsst month, pointed to q
product based on an average investiga-
ton, nearly perfected, not exceeding
SOC, 900 Goethe possibility OF shrink
age In threshing and light weight.
In the northern states of the Atlantic
coast the crop ripened we'll. In the
cotton states it was injured somewhat
by excessive moisture, causing rot and
mould, and in some districts it was
shortened by drouth. In Ohio the
cropis we'll cured. but chaffy from dry
ing too rapidly. The yield is very un-
even, ranging from 10 to 60 bushels
per acre. The Indiana products are in
good condition on early planted areas,
and bette: than was expected on late
planting, and in view of the long con-
tinued drouth. The local yields are
extremely variable.
There is much complaint of lightness
of ears and loosenes In the cob in IllI-
nois and the same variability in yield
| and qualIty elsewhere. 1t is well dried
out and unchanged by drouth. Some
was injured by being cut and shocked
too early. There is much chatfy corn
and the average weight will be light.
Iowa corn has ripened we'll, heavy
| frosts being delayed until the last
week in October, but late planted is
| shriveled from the rapid drying of an
immature ear. A part Of the crop Is
sound and good and portion Is very
| light. The low lying areas were dam
aged irrevocably by the excessive mos.
ture of early summer.
Wet weather in the spring and
| drouth in summer reduced quantity
| and quality in Missouri. The average
in Kansas is reduced by the low yield
| of seed corn, which Is, OF course, in
cluded IN the aggregate. Lower bot
tom lands here yielded better than up
| lands, as the season was too dry for a
large part Of the breadth. Scorchlne
winds in June injured the crop matters.
ally. Nebraska corn, of early planting
rIpened thoroughly. Some of the
latest planting put in with the lister
was plowed up and sown to wheat
The variability of the yield makes il
difficult to fix 8 fair average. In low
places there was some injury from
/ frost.
The estimated yield OF potatoes i.
sixty-two bushels per acre. Itis eighty.
two in Main, sixty-three In New York
sixty IN Pennsylvania, sixty-two II
Michigan, seventy IN Minnesota, seven
ty-one IN Iowa and forty-seven IN Kan
sas. The crop is almost everywhere
light. The tubers small as rule snc
rottiDg considerably in New York snC
| throughout the west. The averag,
yield. of hay Is liz tons per acre nearly
the same az IN 1891.