The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-08
GRAIN.GROWING IN INDIANA
Statistics of Production of Wheat, Corn
and Oats from the Eleventh Census.
The Acreage Of Wheat and Corn q Little Less
in 1889 than in 1S79-Some Interest
ing Facts from the Different Counties.

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production of several States. including In
diana, for the year 1889. which was about
en- average year. but not approaching last
year in productiveness. As returned the
acreage and yield of the State was as follow
in 1859: Barley. 10.2S0 acres. go. 200 bushels;
buckwheat. 9.54S acres, 99.@7 bushels;
corn, $3.50. 100 acres, los, s43, 09i bushels;
oats. ]. l02. 479 acres. 81, 49l. Col bushels; rye.
$3.50 acres. S77. 532 bushels; wheat. 2.5s0,017
acres. 37,3iS. 79S bushels. The aggregate
acreage of 1889 devoted to cereals was
7.340. pa acres. which was 1878
acres in excess of the aggregate of 1879.
During the decade the acreage of oats
has rises from 62S. 81 acres in 1879 to 1.102,-
256 acres in 1883. On the other hand. there
was q decline of 49.67s acres in wheat and
81. 652 acres in corn during the decade.
The aggregate yield of wheat in 1889 was
much less than in 1879, which was q good
deal of a wheat year. In this connection,
1t may be said that the acreage devoted to
cereals in Illinois in 1889 was l4.l66.4l5
acres, or nearly 300.O00 less than In 1879.
corn falling Oft in 1889. 1,15s.4 6i acres and
wheat y7S.6S1 acres. while the breadth de-
voted to oats was increased 1.SSe.0OS acres.
The acres In rye In 1889 were two anc q
half times as many as in 1879. Ii. there
fore, appears that the tendency is to In
crease the acreage of oats in such States as
Indiana and Illinois. and rather TO dimin-
ish the breadth devoted TO corn and wheat.
BIG CoRN AND WHEAT
OF the counties. Tippecanoe had the
largest acreage of corn in 1859 -Si.0o
acres. yielding ASA. 200 bushels. 1t stood
fourth In oat-acreage, 29.669. yielding 951.-
pa bushels, and twenty-fifrh in wheat. hav-
ing sc. 1856 acres and 400. 743 bushels. Its pop
ulatlon In 1890 was 35.07s. Shelby 10 the
second in corn-growing. with 67. l65 acres
and 2.3ll,0 14 bushels; but it did better in
wheat. being third in the list. with 59:5s7
acres and 927. PA bushels. In oats IL 10 low
in the list. The population of Shelby was
%. 454. Benton, in the northwest section
OF the State. surpassed Shelby In acres,
having S4.S05 acres. but falls short in the
wheat. seeming to have turned its acres to
oats. lite population is 1898. Montgomery
county was third in corn production.
2.120.6S3 bushels. but 1t 10 fifth in acreage.
1889. but seventeenth in ~yield-acres. 3D.
9S5; bushels, 62S.543. Gen. Low Wallace
claims that In 1891 it raised the best wheat
crop In the State. General Wallace lives
in Montgomery. Several w~ell-known gen
tlemen make similar claims for their
respective counties. Knox comes close
after MONTGOMERY. with 5s.ol6 acres and
2.0S5. 52S bushels.
In wheat production UlDsOO. OOWu III
the southwest corner of the State. car
ries the wheat banner, both in acreage
ga. 481 acres) and yield. l.42S.6IY bushels.
Posey the southwestern promontory of the
State. is o close second for Gibson. with
$3.50 acres. and 1888, 742 bushels, while
Knox, q third southwestern county, presses
Posey with 56.574 acres. and 1.156. LAP bush
els. These three counties In q block have
ON area of 1852 square miles, and 1850 In.
habItants. and produced an aggregate OF
3.S24,5l3 bushels of wheat in 1889. This
production of the staff of life is scarcely
excelled by any similar area and poPula-
ton In the country. Madison and 81.
Clair counties in Illinois, over near St
Louis, with an. area OF 1880 square miles.
produced 4, 063, 729 bushels OF wheat in 1889.
but they have o population OF over n 5000:
Gibson county. with 449 square miles. bad
over 1O5 square miles Of wheat IN 1859
nearly one-fOurth Of it's area. Shelby conn
ty, second In corn. appears as fourth in
wheat having. In the census year, 59.5S7
acres. and 927. PA bushels. Its area is about
the same as Gibson; Its populatlan 2o,4o4;
its acres of wheat and corn, Ia, 652-that
is. almost l9S of the 400 square miles Of
Shelby were devoted to corn and
wheat in 1889. Koscinsko. in the second
tier of counties from the north, was fifth in
the list, with 44.669 acres and S62. 53S BUSH
els. 1t also had A. 943 acres and 1,420.9sS
bushels of corn. and 90. 26S acres and TAI. 746
bushels OF oats. Elknart, also in the north,
is sixth In the wheat list. with 1859 acrea
AMI S67.1 5S bushels. Noble, with 39.94S
acres and ST., lS2 bushels, ia seventh; st.
Joseph. with 0.350 acres and 7SS, 139 BUSH
els. is eighth; Carroll. IS. $50 acres and $685.
S36 bushels. is ninth, and Bartholomew.
1888 acres and-C90. SyS bushels, Is tenth.
There are many other counties scattered
over the State following close after these
in acres and weld. all showing that wheat
counties are not confined to any section OF
indiana.
In most instances the large areas of oats
are found with small wheat Fields. Benton
county, which leads all others In oats, with
2.02S. 9S5 bushels and 81. 400 acres. has only
III acres of wheat. but nearly 100000 BUSH
els of oats in excess of n other county.
ewton county. with 81. 37S acres and LES
912 bushels. is second; Allen. with 50.os5
acres and LOO. lS9 bushels. 10 third;
Tippecanoe. 20. Geo acres and ISL. 24 BUSH
els. is fourth; Warren. 25.2S5 acres
Int SS5.O23 bushels. is fifth. It. Joseph has
0ne-fourth of the acres. and more than one
fourth of the bushels of barley in the State
1854 acres and 6s. 391 bushels. Dearborn
is second. with 1854 acres and IS. 127 bushels.
while LaPorte is a slow third. with $50
acres and 1861 bushels. st. Joseph and
LaPorte are near Chicago. and Dearborn
near Cincinnati. White county has the
largest acreage of buckwheat-6O6 acres;
LaPorte is second with 594. and Starke
third with All acres. E1fty-six of the
ninety-two counties raised over q million
of bushels of corn each. and twenty-seven
over half y million bushels of wheat. and
only twenty-seven raised less than 100. 0C
bushels each. But three of the counties
raised less than q quarter of q million
bushels of corn.
A FEW OF THE LARGE YIELDS.
The following are twenty-five Of the
counties having the largest yield of the
three Leading cereals. in bushels, with the
population: