Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1915 — W. H. Ritchey Reports Crop Conditions Through West. [ARTICLE]

W. H. Ritchey Reports Crop Conditions Through West.

O. K. and W. H. Ritchey, who went to Little River, Kans., to see their sister, Mrs. T. F. Downing, who was quite sick, have returned, leaving her somewhat better. They say that the best corn near Little River, if the frost stays off will make 75 bushels to the acre. This was on alfalfa ground. The rest will make from 30 to 60 bushels and Wilmotte reports seeing two or three fields that had 1 stalk every 2% feet apart that would go about 55 bushels per acre. Com is worth 93 cents per bushel there. The best wheat is about 37 bushels and the price was sl.lO the day they got there and $1.04 the day they left. A week ago only 5 per cent of the wheat had been thrashed. Charles Snodgrass made a trip of 10 miles to make a report to some official. Wilmotte further says: “We saw a field of wheat on rolling ground uncut. They say the season is about three weeks late. The com is in roasting ears, about as ours is here. From there to Emporia the com began to get smaller and was yellow and from there on through eastern Kansas, Missouri and southern Illinois it was very bad, some fields were entirely gone, others had been replanted and was not over one foot high and the best of it looked as though it could not make over 15 bushels to the acre. Saw two men plowing com that was not over knee high, a strange sight for the last part of August. Through central Illinois the com was extra good until we got to Joliet.”