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Excerpt from Report Upon the Condition of Crops: November 1, 1879 The returns received by this department, giving the yield per acre of wheat, confirm the result foreshadowed in previous reports. The crop produced this year is the largest ever made, and will exceed that of 1878 some bushels. The actual yield per acre for the whole country is against last year. As there is still another inquiry regarding the total product, it would be premature to estimate the actual out-turn till after that investigation is closed. On the Atlantic slope, north of Delaware Bay, the yield was slightly less than last year; New York and New Jersey each report a decline, caused by drought and unfavorable weather in the spring; Pennsyl vania held its own in quantity and improved in quality. All the South Atlantic and Gulf States show an increased yield except Texas, where the drought caused a very heavy decline from the crop of last year. The Southern inland States show a decided increase in yield, particularly Tennessee and Kentucky. In those States, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi, the season has been most propitious and the yield has been very large, probably the largest ever made. In the State of Indiana the increase was from bushels per acre last year to this year. Ohio and Michigan each somewhat exceed 19 bushels per acre, and Illinois with her immense acreage made within a slight fraction of 19 bushels. It is in these States that the great bulk of the increase of this year over last was made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.