Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1889 — WINTER-WHEAT CROP. [ARTICLE]

WINTER-WHEAT CROP.

Fair Average Prospects Notwithstanding the Unfavorable Winter. The following crop report is compiled by the Farmers,’ lleviciv, of Chicago: “March, the regnum between winter and spring, is probably the most trying month of the year to the winter-wheat crop. This year, owing to the lack of snow in many of the States and the remarkably mild, open winter experienced thus far, the season is particularly critical. Should a sudden freeze take place the damage would be very great. As it is, quite a . percentage of the crop in several States nas already been winter killed. Making all due allowances, however, for these reports, the general average condition for the winter-wheat belt as a whole is fair to good, and the prospects for a crop by no means discouraging. We summarize the reports of our correspondents as follows : “In Ohio five counties report condition good, twenty counties 15 to 20 per cent, damage from freezing and thawing, others slightly damaged from same cause; Marion County reports 50 per cent, damage from Hessian fly, three other counties slight damage; two counties suffered from fall drought; general percentage of condition for • the State as compared with an average, 88. “In Indiana nineteen couiities report condition good to very good, ten coifnties 10 to 25 per cent, damage from winter killing, three counties slight damage from Hessian fly ; general average of condition for the State, 93 per cent. “In Illinois thirty-three counties report the ’condition good; eight counties 10 to 25 per cent., damage from winter killing; seven counties li to 25 per cent, damage from the Hessian fly; general average «£ condition for the State, 94 per cent. .