The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-15
CORN YIELD
OF HIGH GRADE
NO BUMPER CROP IN INDI-
ANA, OWING TO WET
SPRING, RAINLESS
SUMMER A ND
THE EARLY
FROST.

meTs VIII De gamers wnen they
nndke comparisons. Inc crop last
ear was eStlmated at IoU,UUU,-
vU0 bushels, out much OF 1t was
unmercnantaDie or was poor teeu
4or i've STOCK, because IL had not
matured at frost time. Early
reezlng IN many localities made
ohe cereal sort and practically
valueleSS.
Inc crop this year may not ex-
ceed Iz0,UUU,COU Dusnels, out most
= IL Is OF hIgn grade-well form
cd kernels almost as hard as tint
and little OF 1t, except IN the
northern counties on FARMS re-
~lanmed from marshes and on bot
.o1n lands, was damaged by frost.
these statements are based on
reports from correspondents OF
Inc Indianapolis News on the
corn growing counies and are the
consensus OF opinion OF leading
larmers and gram dealers.
The estimates of yield given by
he correspondents are borne out
N the main by the statistics COM
piled by Mary Stubbs Moore,
who obtained heI estimates from
SCISSORS and other reliable sour
ces OF information. The State Sta
.ician figures, given i'll tabular
form elsewhere, show the crop
ibis year to be short in acreage,
average yield and total produc-
lion, as compared with 1907.
Last year there were 1925 800
acres under cultivation as COM
pared with 3,sS4,9s0 acres this
year; the average yield was 1889
bushels, as compared with 30.9S
bushels, the estimate in 1908 and
The total production was 10000
I20 bushels, as compared with
l20,394, 902 bushels, this year es-
innate.
Benton was this year the ban
ner corn county of the State.
With 99,25S acres and an estimat-
ed average yield OF 32.35 bushels,
She total production was 3,211,S40
bushels.
The largest average yield was
in Upton County, where fS,471
acres 1T is estimated, produced
1,795,23S Bushels, or an average
to the acre of 44.35 bushels.
Marked inequalities in the yield
are noted by The News cores
pondents. For instance, in JEFF
ierson township, Newton county,
the average yield is 40 bushels to
the acre, whereas, in the four
northern townships-in the re-
claimed Beaver lake and Kanka-
kee swamp region-the average is
only ) to 10 bushels. This low
average is due to early frosts.
Generally speaking, the upland
crop is poor, owing to the long
Drought. This is the case in every
county that had only one light
rain during the growing season.
In the bottom lands of the CEN
trail part of the State and in some
of the southern and northern.
counties the yield averages from
fifty to seventy-hve bushels an
acre, and the corn is described as
OF superior quality. Indeed, few
correspondents fail to state that
the quality of the cereal is far bet
ter than it was last year. How,
ever, the fact that the upland crop
is poor in quantity makes the gen
eral average lower than usual.
Kosciusko county reports that
the value of this years crop is
three times greater than the crop
of 1907. because most of last
years crop was soft, while the
corn this year is hard and dry.
In Wells county farmers have
contracted with elevator men for
their entire crop at 20 to rs cents
a bushel.
The Southwestern part of the
State reports that the crop in the
river bottoms is poor, on account
OF the floods, which did not recede
N time to make seasonable plant
ings. White, Patoka and Wa
bash rivers were high until late
in June. and the bottoms were
50 wet the farmers had difficulty
in sowing corn.
Cass. Greene. Wells, Hend-
ricks, Elkhart, Grant, Hamilton,
Hancock, Howard. Decatur, Mad
ison, Randolph, Miami, Hunting
ton, White, Jasper and Allen are
the counties that report a
good quality of corn.
In speaking in the improve
ment in quality, Jasper Davis, a
Hamilton county expert, said:
Last year was a splendid grow
ing season, and when the frost
came the corn was green, making
it soft and sappy all winter. This
year the dry weather has allowed
it to mature nicely and the quail
ity could not be excelled.'
LESS WHEAT SOWN