People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — STATE CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

STATE CROP REPORT.

From The l r . S. Weather Bureau at Purdue Vnlverslty. WEEK ENDING MONDAY', JULY 8 CENTRAL PORTION. Warm, fair weather, favorable for harvesting continued, and moderate rains fell on Saturday and Sunday. Corn is in best of condition, growing rapidly; the prospect at present the best for ■ years in Marion county; corn has been “laid by." Potatoes are growing well, in good condition; they are blooming most everywhere. Sweet potatoes promise a fair crop in Johnson county, and there are plenty’ early potatoes in Union dounty. Wheat thrashing continues; in Fayette county’ the average is 18 bushels per acre, in U>ion county 2 to 12, Wayne county 5 to 20, Madison county 5 to 10, Hancock 3to 20 (some fields not worth cutting). Vigo county 3 to 20, Boone county 2 to 12, Rush county 6 to 14; Decatur, Johnson, Putnam counties the yield is very light; in Marion county it is better than expected, although in many fields there are but few shocks. Oats has improved; in many localities it is ripening fast, and in Boone county the harvest has begun; the grain is fine and yield good; in Franklin, Johnson and Boone counties oats has become high enough to bind, and the heads are well filled. Rye makes a better crop than expected in Boone county. Pasture and meadows are improved; haying continues. Timothy has improved in Marion and Dataware counties; in Wayne county cut ting has begun. Apples and pears are still promising. In Boone county all the 'trees are loaded. Fall feed is being sown. Gardens are improved Chinch bugs are injuring corn in Putnam. Wayne, Hancock/ 1 Vigo and Owen counties. Potato bugs are doing injury in Franklin and Decatur counties/ bugs are injuring cucumbers Hancock county.

NORTHERN PORTION. No rain fell in the northern portion, but in few localities, and rain is much needed for corn and potatoes; both these crops begin to suffer, especially corn in Clay county; it is rolling badly in Miami, Steuben and Whitley counties. Potatoes will be a short crop unless rain comes soon; in White, Cass, Miami and Carroll counties the crop is poor and drying, in Tippecanoe county is in good condition yet, Wheat and rye are nearly all cut and in shock; thrashing began in Cass county, light, 48 to 58 pounds per bushel, in Kosciusko county from 9 to 24 bushels per acre, in Adams county 7 bushels, Pulaski 15 bushels, DeKalb from 8 to 15 bushels. Carroll 5 to 12 bushels, and in Miami county 8 to 4 bushels per acre; generally the grain is plump, but the are short and the stand was thin. Oats are ripening fast and in Tippecanoe, Adams, Elkhart and White counties the crop has improved; they are still short but the heads are filling well. Pasture continues short and brown most everywhere; in Elkhart county they put cattle on the stubble fields, and in Miami county farmers have much trouble to keep the hungry cattle out of the growing crops. Stock is being fed, and water is scarce in White, Miami, Cass and >! «Starke counties. Haying has ended in Kosciusko and Mar-shall-Counties; the crop is light. Gai dens are not promising, ana fruit is falling off in many couhties..- Chinch bugs, potato bugs and grasshoppers are doing injury.