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Dec. 23, 1920
HARTINGTON — It may not be particularly cheering to farmers of Nebraska, considering present low prices of farm products, to be told that they produced the largest yield per acre of corn this year in the history of the state, but it is the duty of Secretary Leo Stuhr to so inform them.
He is delegated by the Nebraska code law to prepare agricultural and other statistics. He has completed a compilation showing the yield and acreage of cereals for the past five years. The 1920 record shows an average of 33 bushels per acre of corn, 17.4 bushels per acre of winter wheat, 9.5 bushels per acre of spring wheat, 34.6 bushels per acre of oats, 13 of rye, 28 of barley and 98.7 of potatoes.
With one exception, the acreage of wheat was larger in 1920 than in any of the five years.
In 1917 the acreage of wheat was 7,932,650. This year it was 7,560,355. The yield in the five years was from 17.7 bushels in 1918 to 33 the present year. In 1917 wheat was winter killed and 1918 was a drought. In all cereal crops, the statistics indicate, an increased acreage during the war period when the federal government was urging farmers to increase production. Spring wheat is fast going out of style with Nebraska farmers, only a few still try to raise it.
The following shows the yield per acre and acreage of corn and winter wheat in Nebraska for five years from 1916-1920.
Corn
Acres Avg yld Ttl 1920 7,560,355 33 255,544,816 1919 7,029,811 25.8 182,250,823 1918 6,954,051 17.7 123,298,649 1917 7,912,650 28.1 223,488,778 1916 6,740,803 28.2
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