Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — CROP REPORTS. [ARTICLE]

CROP REPORTS.

The Minneapolis Tribune prints estimates of the yield of wheat in every county of Minnesota, showing as follows : Total yield, 49,856,685 bushels ; average per acre, a fraction less than fourteen bushe s ; excess over last year, 1,484,880 bushels. Nearly all the grain in the State will grade No. 1. Oats and barley are a fine yield. Com prospect nnequa led crop. A telegram from Des Moines, lowa, says : “ The reports so far gathered at this point from most of the counties are rather discouraging for a good crop. Wheat, taking the State over, will hardly yield the seed used in planting. Thousands of acres have not been touched, and others harvested which left the farmer in debt for the cost of harvesting.’ - - A gentleman who lately returned to Lincoln, Neb., from the western part of the State, reports corn in a very bad condition. He says that some fields are “ all dried up,” and that, Ks there is rain soon, the crop will be ala total failure in Western Nebraska. A Kansas City paper prints reports from nearly every town in Kansas reached by telegraph giving the condition of the crops. “Considerable alarm has been caused by the continued dry weather, but the reports are in the main cheering, showing that the damage up to the present time has been much less than feared here. Taking into account the increased acreage and the failure of the crops in the western portion of the State last year, it seems fair to estimate that this year’s crop of both wheat and corn in Kansas will be nearly up to the amount produced last year, provided rain comes in a week or so. Some sections have suffered severely, while others will produce an average 'yrop. In localities which suffered last year, with some exceptions, there is a cheering prospect at present. Taken all in ail, there is as yet no cause lor s< nous alarm. Reports from Southwestern Missouri are much the same as from Kansas.”