Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1896 — FARM WORK PROGRESSING. [ARTICLE]

FARM WORK PROGRESSING.

Weekly Reports of the Weather Bureau Covering Crop Prospects. The Weather Bureau, in summing up the situation in weather and crop circles, says that in the Southern States the week has been generally favorable for farm work, which has made good progress. In the more Northern districts, owing to the lateness of the season, farming operations are much delayed, but are being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Cotton planting is now quite general in the nbrthern portion of the cotton belt, is well advanced in the southern portion, and the early planted is coming up. In Florida, it is nearly finished. Winter wheat is reported in excellent condition in Nebraska and eastern Kansas, and much improved and looking well in lowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and northern Illinois. Less favorable reports are received from Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York, in some of which States it has been winter killed and is in poor condition. No corn has yet been planted north of the Ohio river, but some planting has been done ns fur north as Kentucky and Virginia. West of the Mississippi some corn hns been planted ns far north as southern Nebraska. Planting is nearly completed in Oklahoma, and is in progress in Missouri. In Illinois and Indiana plowing for corn is general. In the Southern States corn planting is practically completed.