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Show HOW THE CORN CROP LOOMS. I'tali Takes the Premium by a Yield of 36 Bushels to the Acre. Washington, November 10. The November Novem-ber crop report of the Department of Agriculture Agri-culture says: The present crop of corn is the first full average in the rate of yield since 1880, which was the last of a series of full crops of 26 to 28 bushels per acre. The present crop is grown on an area of 53,000,-000 53,000,-000 to 54,000,000 acres, and is slightly above the average for, a period of ten years, or 26 bushels per acre. The highest rate of yield is 36 bushels, in Nebraska Ne-braska and Ohio. Three corn-growing States which proluce four-tenths of the entire en-tire crop Illinois, Iowa and Missouri each average several btshels per acre less than in the census year. Illinois averages 31, Iowa 32, Missouri 30,! Utah 36, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Colorado 30, New Hampshire Hamp-shire and Rhode Island 34, Michigan 33, Wisconsin 32, Kansas 31 and the Southern States make an sverage yield. The quaUty of the corn is very good in the east and south, uedium in the central parts of the west, and somewhat depreciated on the northern borler from Michigan to Dakota. Da-kota. . I |