46 INDIAN COEN. 



State, for a succession of recent years, nearly thirty- 

 three bushels per acre. 



In New England, acreable products have been esti- 

 mated and reported from different States and sections, 

 varying from twenty-seven to thirty-eight bushels, the 

 most competent judges rating the average at about 

 thirty-two bushels. 



Some estimates from Indiana and Illinois would 

 lead to the inference that the average for those States 

 will reach from thirty-five to forty bushels per acre. 



On the other hand, there are sections of the coun- 

 try of no small extent from which the reported esti- 

 mates are lower than any of these figures. In some 

 of the immense cornfields of the far "West, and on the 

 large plantations of the Southwest and South, the cul- 

 tivation is necessarily imperfect and neglected, and 

 the yield being correspondingly low, contributes to 

 sink the average for the whole country. 



Taking the various data and means of judging as 

 we find them, though there is some room for differ- 

 ence of opinion, we may yet reach a general conclu- 

 sion that can scarcely be very wide of the mark. 



One writer puts the average yield for the whole 

 country in 1860 at thirty bushels, another at twenty- 

 eight and a fraction. The editor of the Country 

 Gentleman places it in 1862 at thirty-five bushels. 

 The opinion of the latter i%entitled to great consider- 

 ation ; yet we are inclined to think that it is slightly 

 above the mark. If we place the general average for 

 the last five years at thirty-three bushels per acre, it 

 cannot be very far from the truth. 



