The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-11-15
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Corn. .; Course. Break- a. Previon' Rec.
ords-Rye anu Baries Also In Good Com
dition-Cottor Crop Though small
Bringing 5ooa Prices.
The government. October crop re.
port published or Friday makes II pos
sib!e &C form quite ciea. idea Of the
narvests Of s9s .r the Unitec states
According 20 the officia. dgures The
whea, crop Of 1875 Will De approx.
marely 425 900. 00c bushels. But un.
Official estimates IN which the trade
seems &C reposs considerable confidence.
place the tota weld nearly az high as
45C 000 coo D, possibly slightly higher.
The government preliminary esti-
mate q the new oats crop throughout
the cccctrs rs very favorable. giving
the s.gs average yielo Of rs bushels
per acre-tAe 5ighesr October average
recorded within Ave Years
The estimated average yield of rye
anc barley this year IL also remarkably
GOOD being respectively IA and 26. 4
bushels per acre Nc such promising
yield D, either OF these crops has been
reported within five years
But the crop winch cuts the most
prominent figure ID the American har-
vests Of seq Is Indian corn A year ago
this country was al great disadvan
tage by reason Of the failure Of corn
by far the most important and profita.
BILE 81 Its cereal crops In October. 1894.
the government estimated the general
condition Of corn at only "a per cent
figures indicating a very great short.
age and making the crop about nethird
less than an average The present gov
eminent estimates place the genera! con-
dition OF corn con Oct /, l895) at 90 o
per cent. This Is SlS points higher
than the condition of last years corn
crop at the same date.
IL should be noted also that at this
date the crop Is practically secure. the
period when II could be materially in
Jured by frost having passed before the
2lst II September. The year 1892 will
always be memorable in American agri-
cultural annals for its great Indian
corn harvest. which the department OF
agriculture estimated at 1900. 900, 900
bushels. The crop Of $50 was also phe-
uomenal being estimated at 2, il3. 000,-
600 bushels But the.crop Of 1895 is very
considerably larger than even those of
1899 and 500. the present yield of corn
breaking all records in America and in
the world. and bidding fair now to ag-
gregate not very far from 1900. 900. 900
bushels
II is true that the latest returns of the
department show a decline in the gen
eral condition OF the cotton crop. The
October estimates indicate falling off
of points since the lst Of September
last and the, total yield will evidently
be far short of the average and very far
short Of the phenomenal crop of 1894.
But If the southern planters will have
deficient return in the quantity Of cot
ton, they will not have to sell their prod
uct ar the low prices prevailing last
year The great advance i'll the prices
of cotton during the last six months
(Which are now about double the prices
that prevailed IN most of lS94) will
very largely. if not fully. compensate
and console the planters for the shortage
of the forthcoming crop
The official numerical estimates of the
corn and other crop conditions per cent
on Oct | inst are