THREE BILLION BUSHELS OF CORN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1091, 1 April 1911, Page 8

THREE BILLION BUSHELS OF CORN.

AMERICA'S GREATEST CROP". The'magnitude of the corn crop'passes comprehension (says the "Breeders' Gazette"). Its 3,125,713,000 bushels exceed the former : bumper cron of 1906 by over. 198,000,000 bushels. ''It is thV first three-billion bushel crop of anything that the country has ever grown. It- is about 60 ■ per cent.' greater, than the total of all our other cereal,crops for this year. Tho corn crop occupied 114,002,000 acres the past season, yet so vast is this country and so varied are its agricultural resources that this area represents only a small proportion of its total improved farm acreage. If all of tlio improved acreage of Indiana, Illinois lowa, and. Missouri had been planted to corn last spring, those four States irould readily have produced the nation's corn crop, whilo all of the other States could have produced other cereals, hay, pasture, and miscellaneous crops.' These four .States actually had only a little less than one-third-of the corn acreage of tho entire country. Tho value of the cotton crop with' its seed is only three-fifths of tho value of the com crop; wheat is worth only twofifths as much'; hay less than one-half, and all other cereals together less than three-fourths as much as corn. And yet only about tn-o-thirds of the feeding value of tho com crop is included in tho ears and counted in these figures. Chaff-cutting and threshing arc about completed in tho Kopuaranga district, says the correspondent of the Wairarapa "Age." The quality of both tho grain and tho chaff is reported to bo excellent. The papers state that there is shortage of good farm hands in South Canterbury