Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1900 — CONDITION OF CROP 3. [ARTICLE]

CONDITION OF CROP 3.

Unfavorable Reports of Winter Wheat in the Middle West. The chief of the climate and crop division of the weather bureau reports the crop condition on the Ist of April. East of the Mississippi River, except in the Southern States, the season has been generally backward and unfavorable for farm work, with excessive rains in portions of the Gulf States, and heavy snows in portions of the lake region and New England. On the Pacific slope and in the Rocky Mountain districts exceptionally favorable conditions have prevailed, and farming operations are progressing rapidly. Unfavorable reports regarding winter wheat eoutinue from Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and portions of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Maryland; elsewhere th*

crop looks favorable and enters spring In excellent condition. Outside of a limited area in Southern California, winter wheat on the Pacific coast is well advanced and promising. Some spring wheat has been sown over the southern portion of the spring-wheat region, and also in Montana, where the season is unusually advanced. Corn is being planted in the Southern States, some os far north as North Carolina. In Southern Texas the bulk of the crop has been planted. Oats are being sown in Kansas, Missouri, Ohio aud Kentucky, and are coining up to good stands in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi. Reports of winter killing of the fall crop are received from Virginia and Georgia. Cotton planting has begun over the southern portion of the cotton region. The prospects for fruit are favorable, although peaches sustained some damage iu Missouri, Arkansas,* Illinois and Ohio. The soil is in good condition and considerable plowing has been done in' all except the more northerly sections, where frost still remains in the ground, aud in portions of Now Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, where this work has been delayed by wet weather.