Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1886 — REPORTS ABOUT THE CORN. [ARTICLE]

REPORTS ABOUT THE CORN.

Indications that the Crop’Ts Well Past Any Serious Danger ol Fpost. The Farmers' Review, of Chicago, has been gathering reports from the corn-grow-j ing States, of which the following is a sum- ■ mary: The corn crop had a week of hot and crowding weather, and the majority of the reports received at the close of the last week indicate that the crop is well past any | serious danger of frost. In portions oi I Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, lowa, and Wisconsin the grain is already sufficiently matured to resist any injury from light frosts. The general aveiages indicated by the reports during the last four weeks have not changed in any particular, degree. In a general way the prospects are still very good for a full average yield in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Minnesota. The average prospective yield is lowest in Illinois, AV isconsin, Missouri, and lowa, and ranges low in Kansas and Nebraska. The average for Illinois, according to reports Irom twenty-two of the principal com-growing counties, is between 62 and 65 per cent., and five of the counties report that the crop is out of all danger irom frost. The most encouraging reports from Illinois come from Lee, Ford, and Morgan Counties, and are the only ones- giving a prospect of a full average yield. The average is the lowest in Edwards and Mercer Counties. In twenty counties of lowa the general average ranges from 59 to 63 percent. In Cass and Carroll Counties the reports show that the crop will give a full average yield. In Madison, Decatur, Marion, and Appanoose Counties the average falls from 20 to 35 per cent, of an average yield. In Kansas the lowest average reported i s 25 per cent, and the highest 100. The average for the State ranges from 66 to 72 per cent. In Missouri the average for the fifteen scattered counties falls below 50 per cent., with a general average of 58 per cent. In Wisconsin some of the- counties indicate very low averages. In Grant, Fond du Lac, and Sheboygan Counties the yield is placed at from ten to. fifteen bushels an acre. The average for the State runs very low. Fully one-half of the counties in Minnesota predict a full average yield. In Pipestone County the average yield promises to be the largest ever raised in that county In Miehigan the yield will be nearly a full average, and in Indiana will probably exceed the yieldof a year ago. In Nebraska the yield will bo fully 85 per cent, of an average yield. The reports continue to indicate that early plan ed potatoes promise a fair yield, while nearly all late-planted pota oes are very poor, indicating generally less than one-fourth the usual yield. The average for the total crop will exceed very little more than one-half the usual yield. Late rains have improved the pastures somewhat in lowa and Illinois, where the grass in many sections is reported short but green. In other large sections pastures are reported dry and short and cattle lean. In many portions of Illinois, Missouri, ' lowa, Minnesota, and Kansas com is being cut in large quantities for fodder. Hogs are reported light but gen n rally healthy. Hog cholera is reported in Jasper County. Illinois, and in Osage County’, Missouri, hogs are dying from an unknown disease.