Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 4, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 June 1933 — FARM OUTLOOK MUCH IMPROVED DURING PAST WEEK. [ARTICLE]

FARM OUTLOOK MUCH IMPROVED DURING PAST WEEK.

A backward spring for farmers due to a long continued wet season has resulted in late corn planting, but the conditions of the growing crops are up to par and the outlook is not discouraging, according to B. B. Benner, secretary-treasurer, Central State Grain Asosciation, in the offices of the Indiana Farm Bureau at Indianapolis. “Wheat fields never looked better in all sections of the state ing in the extreme southwest ‘pocket’ country where the floods were too much for it,” he says. “It looks like a normal yield except for acreage shortage which occurred last fall at seeding time. The warm weather of the past week or so has been favorable to filling of the heads which appear longer than usual. The wheat harvest season will not be deplayed.” Corn planting has been completed upstate and in fact, in all sections except the extreme southern part where flood waters receded slowly. The oats crop is in good condition except in a few places where drowned out in the low lands of the northwest section. Grasses and hay crops are excellent, he states.