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Show Corn Crop of the United States. Chicago, September 27. The corn crop of the United States having passed the critioal stage, and , whatever of danger menaced cereals from frost being now ended, owing to the maturity of the grain, the Farmer's ; Review, of this city, has called in reports from its 14,000 correspondents, giving the area and probable yield in every county in the ten leading corn-producing States, and has compiled from these a close estimate of the approximate yield of the j crop of 1885V : The estimates . have been baaed on comparison with the yield of 1884,' taking the figures of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington for the yield of last year. The reports of the correspondents include not only the approximate actual average, but also the- percentage of one condition, as compared to last year, and the percentage of increase or decrease in acreage. This waa done to approximate as olosely as possible pos-sible on the actual output, the correctness of which method was demonstrated very fully in the estimate of the wheat crop June 1 by this bureau, and to which all recognized statisticians,- including ? the government bureau, have gradually approached." - In Indiana, Illinois and Kansas, the ground was ploughed up owing to the ruination of the - winter wheat crop, and is devoted to corn, - which is closely computed. In compari$oaby States, the returns show that Indiana Iowa, Minnesota and - Missouri have a slight inorease in acreage over 1884, and Wisconsin is the only State showing ' - a decrease, but both Minnesota and Wisconsin show a deorease in condition, and Missouri shows a slight decrease. de-crease. Ohio States reveal an improvement, and in Ohio, Illinois and indiana. the improvement im-provement is marked. The comparison by States of the probable yield in the ten States named shows an excess over the year 1884- -of 840,000 -bushela. on the basis that the States and " Territories outside of the ten named will produce as much corn as they did last year, or 643,400,000 bushels, and this would 'seem to be -assured 'from the study of the reports. , It will give a total crop of 1,979,636,000 bushels, from which total it is safe to estimate that the yield will not vary in any appreciable degree de-gree either way. . . . |