People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — STATE CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

STATE CROP REPORT.

From The C. S. Weather Bureau al Purdue University. WEEK ENDING MONDAY, JUNE 24. Favorable Weather Practically Insures a blood Corn Crop and Improves Pastures. Since the issuing of the following favorable bulletin by the Central station at Indianapolis there has been local rains in Jasper county that still further adds to the improved prospect for the dissipation of tne drouth that has so seriously injured small grain and pastures. Corn has suffered very little but pastures have been nearly ruined.. The weather during the week was exceedingly favorable to crops; warm weather continued, and very good and general rains fell in the central and southern portions on Wednesday and Thursday and local rains in the northern portion on Tuesday. Corn, potatoes, vegetables, some late fields of oats, and pasturage were improved by the rains. Corn is in excellent condition, of a good stand and good color, with fields well cultivated, and by the late rains a large crop seems almost insured. The wheat harvest is progressing almost everywhere; the rain stopped the cutting for two days; the heads are well filled, the grain is of good quality, but the crop stands thin, does not ripen evenly and the straw is short. Rye and barley harvest continues; rye in general is a fair crop, but barley less so. Clover is nearly all cut; the hay is short; the second crop is growing slowly. Timothy continues to be a failure. Oats are ripening, but it is very short; some late fields have been benefitted by the rain, but, in general, the crop will be much below the average. Tobacco setting is nearly all done. Much millet is being sown; in some localities meadows are plowed under and millet and corn is being put in for fodder, as the first hay crop is very short. Bees are making but little honey. Apples and pears continue to be improving.

SOUTHERN PORTION. Light local rains fell on Wednesday but on Thursday slow soaking rains fell, in some localities more than four inches; the rains were general and they were very beneficial, being so much needed, and farmers are much encouraged. The wheat, rye and barley harvest continued, only interrupted during the two days it rained; the heads are well tilled, but the straw is short, and in most fields the snocks stands thin. Rye, in general is a fair crop, barley perhaps less so. Oats are ripening slowly; it is very short, but some late fields have been benefittedby the rains and will be high enough for the reaper; the heads in some localities are well filled. Clover is all cut; in Jackson county the second sowing is coming up nicely; in Bartholomew county clover is hulled, the yield is from three and a half to four bushels to the acre. Timothy is short and a failure most everywhere; in Washington county, in some fields, there will be two-thirds of a crop. Hay is very short and the crop light; pasturage and some meadows have been improved by the rain. Potatoes have’been much advanced since the rain; in Switzerland and Dubois counties the early potatoes are not in good condition; late potatoes in many counties have been all planted, but in some counties planting will' only commence next week. Tobacco setting in Switzerland county is all done. Apples and pears are still promising, but apples are still falling off much. In Dubois county springs and wells are still low. CENTRAL PORTION. General rains fell also in the central portion; they were not so heavy as in the southern portion, but enough to refresh and improve all growing vegetation; corn and potatoes, which needed rain most, have been much benefited, and the corn crop is almost insured; it is of gond color and

I a good stand in clean fields. The wheat harvest continues; the straw is short and the headswell filled, but it ripened uneven, and in many fidlds it is standing only thin. Rye and barley is being cut; the rye crop is fair, in Owen county good; barley is a fair crop. Oats are short; in some localities rains have improved late fields; in Randolph and Boone counties the crop is almost a failure. Clover is all cut and an average crop, but hay is short. The hay crop is light and short. Potatoes are coming on nicely since the rain; bugs are doing injury in Wayne county. Beans are still being planted in some localities. Tobacco is being transplanted in Wayne county. Bees are making but little honey in Union county. Cherries are ripe in Owen county. In Rush county raspberries are selling for $4.00 per bushel. Apples and pears are still promising a good crop. NORTHERN PORTION. The rains which fell in most localities on Tuesday, and in few localities on Wednesday and Thursday, were only local and light; in many localities no rain fell. Wherever good rains fell everything was improved. Corn and potatoes are growing nicely; corn is coming on only slowly, but promising a large and good crop; it is of good color and well cultivated. Wheat, rye and barley harvesting continues; the heads of the wheat in general are well filled, but it stands thin and the straw is short; the crop will be below average; in Warren county, wheat is better than expected. Rye is nearly all cut; the crop in general is fair. The heads of the barley in most fields are but poorly filled. Hay cutting continues; the crop is short; in some counties but little hay has been made and farmers are depending on corn fodder; in Porter county cattle are fed and meadows have been plowed up and millet and corn fodder planted; in Jay county pasturage has been improved by the rain, but most everywhere the pasturage is no good. Timothy is a failure nearly everywhere. Gardens are not in very good condition; cut. worms destroyed the first planting, and for the second it was too dry. Apples are falling much, but there are still plenty. Vegetables have improved. Blackberries and raspberries are a fair crop in Whitley county. A good crop of cherries have ripened in LaGrange and Huntington counties.