Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — GOLDEN GRAIN. [ARTICLE]

GOLDEN GRAIN.

Flattering Crop Reports from All Directions. Texas.—The Secretary of the Dallas (Texas) Board of Trade makes the following statement regarding the crops in Northern Texas, made up from reports received by him from all sections within that part of the State : Within the past ten days heavy rains have fallen generally throughout Northern Texas, and unmatured crops are growing very sash It is the subject of general remark among farmers that this has been the most favorable season for everything since 1870. Minnesota and Dakota.—Crop dispatches gathered at St Paul from Southwestern Minnesota and Southern Dakota report favorable weather and small grains doing well at present. In Northern lowa the acreage of wheat is 10 per cent, and that of corn 50 per cent, greater than that of last year. Corn is nearly all planted, but the weather is still too cold for it to grow well. It is beginning to come up, however, in some localities. In Southern Dakota wheat and small grains look fair, and corn is all planted. In the Minnesota valley all grain but corn is doing well. The corn planted before this last cold snap is nearly all frozen in the ground. Farmers are now replanting, and with warm weather hereafter the crop may come out all right Nebraska.—Crop reports collected by the Burbngton and Missouri River Railroad Company and by leading grain merchanto in Linecoin, Neb., are quite favorable to small grain, and show no uneasiness in regard to corn. The latter has suffered some from wet weather and some replanting will have to be done, but in the main the crop promises well. Should the present warm, growing weather continue through June a large corn crop will be assured. There is but one opinion in the matter of small grain. It never looked better than at present Kansas. —The reports from a large portion of tbo counties in Kansas show that the wheat never looked better at this season of the year and promises an abundant yield. The cold rains of the past week put an end to the work of the chinch-bug on the wheat for this year. The cprn has most all been planted, and is nearly a foot high in some the counties, and looks well. Never in the history of the State has the prospect been so favorable for a big fruit crop. All kinds of fruit are looking well, and the farmers have commenced complaining that there is going to be too much fruit, and that the prices will be so low that it won’t pay to bring it to market. lowa. —A Sioux City dispatch says : Acreage of corn over last year, 50 per cent., and, excepting a little coolness, prospects are good. Wheat prospects are also good, but the acreage is one-fourth less. Other grains are doing well, and the country generally is prospering.

Wisconsin and Michigan.—Wisconsin has had trouble with spring wheat, but in parts of the State the area shows increase, and the condition of the crop is good ; the yield ought to bo considerably in excess of last year. Burley is being cultivated increasingly in Wisconsin, and it promises well. In Michigan the condition of the wheat is excellent. Illinois. —At Springfield dispatch to the Chicago Times says : Winter wheat on drained land is much above an average in condition, and, with favorable conditions until harvest, there will be more than an average yield per acre. Notwithstanding the fact that the win-ter-wheat area of the State is 10 per eent. less than last year, the prospects at this date when compared with the corresponding date last season is favorable for 32 per cent larger yield per acre in Northern Illinois, 40 per cent, larger yield per acre in Central Illinois and 26 per cent larger yield per acre in Southern Illinois. Corn planted before the cold weather in April and at intervals since, much to the surprise of old corn-growers, has made considerable growth during the period of low temperature, and, while lacking vigorous, healthy color, is, under the circumstances, doing well, and with a few davs of warm sunshine wifi make rapid growth. The area of potatoes and oats is much larger than last year.

Ohio and Indiana.— A. recent telegram from Cincinnati says: Reports of farmers visiting the city, mercantile travelers and correspondents of busjness houses daily received give flattering accounts of the prospect of wheat in the portions of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky immediately tributary to Cincinnati. The acreage is from 15 to 20 per cent, greater than that of last year. The set on the ground is thick, the stem vigorous, the heads large, and the yield to the acre promises to be 20 to 25 per cent greater than that of last year. In General.—ln general it may be safely stated, at this writing, that the cool, wet weather has not beep unfavorable for wheat, and has rendered it the*conspicuous service of keeping back the fatal chinch bug. If it has injured the corn it may have more than compensated for it by the opportunity it has afforded the young wheat of getting a good start before the chinch bug was able to be out But it is not yet certain that the com has been seriously injured. It is backward ; large tracts that should have been planted are not ' planted yet The area of both corn and wheat is considerably increased, and the condition of the former is not such, with rare exceptions, as to discourage the fanners, who are confident that if the weather now becomes favorable no harm will have been done by the wetness and coldness of the season. Oats, rye and potatoes appear to have been planted in liberal Quantities, and to be promising well. Sixteen New York savings banks are in the hands of receivers. To depositors these gentlemen have paid §t,ooo . 000 in even figures and $793,000 to themselves.