The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-28
CROPS HARVESTED
IN WAYNE COUNTY
EXCEED STANDARD
Splendid Wheat Crop Yield
ed and Corn Crop to Be
Excellent One.
WHAT BANKS REPORT
Over S7,000,0O0 Deposited on
August 25, Showing Very
Large Gain.

Prosperity in Wayne county is fast
When other sections of the country
are experiencing crop reversals and,
farmers of this county, having banked
the proceeds of a large wheat crop,
are already mentally casning in on
what gives every evidence of being a
record breaking yield of corn.
This latter crop is all the more au-
spicious, coming in a year when this
great staple crop in the western corn
growing states has been blasted by
drought and when a large portion of
the state of Indiana has suffereded
heavy loss for the same reason.
Unless all estimates go wrong,
Wayne county this fall will harvest
the record breaking corn crop of it's
history. Even the phenomenal yield
of 1905. when the entire state of Indi-
ana produced an average yield of 42.11
bushels per acre, bids fair to be ex-
ceeded
Largest Crop on Record.
Conservative estimates taken from
reliable sources indicate that Wayne
county will crib this year 2,450,00O
bushels of corn, an increase of a quar-
ter of million bushels over the crop
OF 1912. This, too, in year when
f1ve-sixths of the counties of the state
will drop far below their normal yield
for the past ten years. During the
last decade in Wayne county the corn
crop has avareged 3S bushels per acre.
The 1913 crop will easily run ten
bushels, higher,
With the exception OF probably two
townships in the northeastern portion,
Wayne county as a whole Jared re-
markably we'll through the dry wealth
er. generally prevalent in the summer
of 1918 This county and few others
lying near the Ohio line, were the only
ones in the state that escaped the con-
sequences of a protracted drought.
Indiana Corn Below Average.
Through a wide strip of country
from Columbus, Ind, south to the
Ohio river, the corn crop will fall six
ty per cent below that of last year. In
Bartholomew county the farmers have
that is already dry and dead. when 1t
should be green and growing.
The wheat crop in Wayne county,
which covered over 10000 acres and
ran close to the IS bushe1 mark, has
already been moved and the proceeds
are now reposing on the credit side of
the farmers ledgers. This wheat crop
was high in quality, the millers grad
ing it at 95 per cent. The wheat crop
this year / 'Fayne county reached
the magnificent total of three quarters
of million bushels. and was market
ed at IS cents, adding over 100000 to
the resources of the county.
Doubled Hay Crop.
The clover crop, to which the farm
ers of Wayne county annually devote
over 10000 acres of their land, has
also paid we'll for the labor that was
required to care for it. Last year the
clover fields of this county yielded
9,767 tons of hay, a production that
was more than doubled this summer.
The recent dry weather has materially
assisted In making the clover seed
crop which will add 100000 to the
county's purse
In fact the only grain which did not
come we'll above the average this
year in Wayne county was the oat
crop. This is estimated to have
amounted to 100000 bushels. a de-
crease of five per cent below the
yield of the preceding year.
Banks Deposits Increase.
Banks of the entire county on Au-
gust 25. contained S7.o26,11355 in de-
posits OF this amount the thirteen
banks outside of Richmond held
s1,437. 1882. exclusive of public funds,
With one exception every country
bank in the county showed substan-
tial gain over the deposits for the cor
responding date in 1912. The total
gain in the deposits of the country
banks as shown by a comparison of
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