When was it published?

November 13, 1835 in Alexandria Gazette

Domestic News November 13, 1835

Alexandria Gazette

Q: What entities or persons were involved?

Aaron Burt, Joseph Savage, David S. Earl, John Ross

Q: What keywords are associated?

Wheat Harvest, Oats Yield, Barley Crop, Onondaga Farming, Crop Yields, Farm Prosperity

Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia

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What is this article about?

Reports of exceptional crop yields in Onondaga: Aaron Burt harvested 46 bushels/acre wheat on 11 acres; Joseph Savage 406 bushels wheat on 7.5 acres, sold at $33.6/acre; David S. Earl over 500 bushels oats on 7 acres; John Ross 68 bushels/acre barley in Otisco; Pompey barley crop worth over $60,000. Farmers prospering with rising land prices.

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Onondaga.—Mr. Aaron Burt of this town, harvested eleven acres of wheat this season, which averaged over forty-six bushels to the acre. Mr. Joseph Savage, also of this town, raised four hundred and six bushels from seven and a half acres of land. He said, after reserving 16 bushels, sold 347 bushels—or $33.6 per acre. From the same piece of land he had last year forty bushels of wheat per acre.

Mr. David S. Earl, whose farm lies near Liverpool in this town, raised more than five hundred bushels of oats from 7 acres of land—being more than eighty bushels to the acre.

Mr. John Ross, of Otisco, had sixty-eight bushels of barley per acre from a piece of land which had been sown with the same crop for six years in succession and which at that time has yielded less than it did the first season.

The barley crop in the town of Pompey is estimated to have yielded the farmers of that town more than $60,000.

Our farmers are all getting rich, and farms are held and sold at high and rapidly increasing prices.—Onondago Standard

What sub-type of article is it?

Agriculture Economic

What keywords are associated?

Wheat Harvest Oats Yield Barley Crop Onondaga Farming Crop Yields Farm Prosperity

What entities or persons were involved?

Aaron Burt Joseph Savage David S. Earl John Ross

Where did it happen?

Onondaga

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Onondaga

Event Date

This Season

Key Persons

Aaron Burt Joseph Savage David S. Earl John Ross

Outcome

high crop yields including 46 bushels/acre wheat, 54 bushels/acre wheat sold at $33.6/acre, over 80 bushels/acre oats, 68 bushels/acre barley; pompey barley worth over $60,000; farmers getting rich with rising farm prices.

Event Details

Multiple farmers in Onondaga reported exceptional harvests: Aaron Burt's 11 acres of wheat averaged over 46 bushels/acre; Joseph Savage raised 406 bushels wheat from 7.5 acres, sold 347 bushels after reserving 16, compared to 40 bushels/acre last year; David S. Earl near Liverpool raised over 500 bushels oats from 7 acres; John Ross in Otisco had 68 bushels/acre barley from land sown six years successively, yielding more than initially; Pompey barley crop estimated over $60,000.