The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-08-27
NATIONS LARGEST CROPS
Western Farmers Will Reap -Four Bill
lion Bushels Of Cereals.
souNTIFUL HARvESTS ASSURED
All Reeor A. Excsedsd-Corn Leads With
a.5s9. 900. 900 Bushels-wheatan and Oats
VIII Also Exceed Amount Raised Last
Year-Prncticaiiy Immune Against Bad
weathsr-Kansss' Crib Will Burst.

VIII Also Exceed Amount Raised Last
Year-PracticsIiy Immune Against Bad
weathsr-Kansas' Crib Will Burst.
Chicago.-Nature and the farmers o.
the United States have outdone them
selves In the wheat. corn and oats
crops Of 1902. The most bountiful
harvest In the history Of the nation
has already been garnered or is prac'
eicallr immune against damage by un'
favorable weather.
II the general prosperity be In pro-
portion to the wealth gathered from the
fields. the next year will .e one OF con-
tentment and comfort for all classes.
Millions more In mortgages will be
lifted from the broad acres. and thou
sands Of farmers will face the year
1903 with a clean financial slate.
From a compilation Of various
figures of crop economists one Is ena-
bled to say that tie profits for ehe
farmer this year will he $2.0OO.OOO.OOO
or more. most Of which has been real
lied upon corn and wheat.
The calculation is based on an aver
aye of the estimates Of various stats.
ticians. This average gives aDproxi-
mateiy the following results for the
year:
wheat. 1880. 900 bushels; corn. 3
5S9. 9.9jl 900 bushels: barley. 120. 200, $50
bushels: rye. 30.350.SOO bushels. and
oats, 751.52S.72i bushels.
Therefore q total OF 4.12s,2 $500
bushels of cereals was produced by
less than 100000 farmers on S41. .0Oo.-
600 acres Of soil. the land upon which
these crops were grown being worth
SIC. .OOO, 100000.
Wisconsin announces to the world
that she has the biggest Oat crop she
ever raised. and that her corn Is In ex.
cellent condition. Indiana calls her
corn croE phenomenal" and submits
the figures. 1000. 900 bushels. toprove
II. Her wheat crop. too. Is much bet
ter than she thought several weeks
ago 1t would be.
Nebraska declares she has 40.OOO.OC
bushels more corn In her fields than
she ever had before. and Illinois hopes
to add nearly hundred millions to her
last crop of that cereal. Ohio makes
her wheat crop practically the same as
last years. and raises her corn limit
$4,000. 900 bushels.
Kansas will not raise more than
half as much wheat as she did In l0Ol.
but makes up for this loss with corn
croD five times rs large-unotficlally cs.
timated Mt 800. 700. 900 bushels. Okla.
homa promises something like JOOo0..
600 bushels of wheat and 3S,0O0.00O OF
corn.
Up in the big spring wheat country
of Minnesota and the Dakotas the har-
vest has begun. with n condition above
ninety points. Nearly everywhere the
corn in the fields promises n heavy
crop and the yield Of oats. 1t Is said.
will exceed the crop Of 1890. Statisti.
clans now believe the wheat crop OF
1902 will exceed that OF Its predecessor
in 1901 by at least 25.OO0.O bushels.
B. W. Snow. one of the best-known
crop experts in the country. says the
total for the wheat crop Will be 49,
600, 900 bushels. The same authority
says tie corn harvest will be o.aOO.OO0.'
600 bushels. or nearly double that OF
year ago. He puts the oats crop nj
SS5. .OO0. 900 bushels.
Missouri State authorities are not
satisfied with the figures on whea,
credited to that State by the Agricul'
tural Department at Washington. They
announced that the State will contrib
ute SO. 10000 bushels Of wheat this
year. or n trifie more than double the
amount II produced a year ago. The
Government in July estimated Nilsson
ri's crop ut only 3G.22J.0O0.
Estimates of the crop OF spring
! wheat in Minnesota vary from 5000
600 to 10. 600. 900 bushels. The latter
estimate Is 3O.OO0.OOO more than the
crop of 1901. The statistlcian who
submits the lower figures credits ID.
| O0o. 600 bushels TO North Dakota and
sS. .OO0. 600 bushels to South Dakota.
For wheat these estimates are much
lower than those suggested by the
! Government for South Dakota. Based
on them. South Dakota should be cred
tied with 54,OOO.O00 bushels instead OF
90 on0 OnO