People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — STATE CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

STATE CROP REPORT.

Prom The (J. §. Weather Bureau at Purdue Untvemtt)’. WEEK ENDING MONDAY, JULY 22 CENTRAL PORTION. Moist, warm fair weather was interrupted by frequent rains on several days, heavy enough ih most localities to do much good to growing crops. Corn is growing rapidly, is in silk and tassels and shooting, and stands of good color in clean fields, promising a big crop. Late potatoes and beans are growing well. Young clover and millet are growing well. They are still sowing buckwheat in Decatur county; in other fields it is up and growing nicely. Vegetable and garden truck are improved. Sweet po tatoes, tomatoes and melons are growing nicely; in Wayne county tomatoes are in bloom. Wheat threshing continues; in Boone county threshing ts ended. Oats in shock most everywhere; in most counties the grain is plump but the straw short; in Henry county it had to oe handled with out binding. Haying is nearly done, but crop is short and of good quality; timothy is nearly all housed; a good crop in Deca tur county. Plowing for fall sowing has begun, atad much fall feed is being sown. Chinch bugs are numerous and injuring corn in Franklin and Vigo counties. Heavy hail did damage to corn and gardens in Madison county, and strong wind to corn and orchards in Boone, Henry, Hancock. Vermillion and Decatur counties. Apples and pears are abundant and freo of worms, and plums are ripe.

NORTHERN PORTION. Numerous good rains and warm, moist weather improved all growing crops. Pasturage in many localities begins to look green again. Corn is improved, is tasseling and shooting and grows rapidly; in Pulaski county the crop promises to be one of the greatest ever raised. Late potatoes are in fine epniiition, but early potatoes have Jbiut few in the hiH, bugs are dofafeg damage in Jay county. Vegetables were helped by tbe rains. Buckwneat is growing fast; in Starke county they are still sowing it. There are plenty of tomatoes for canning. Millet prorn ! ses a fair yield, but clover seed will be short in some localities. Apples and pears are a large crop; in Miami county they have to prop the branches. Wheat threshing continues: it yields better than estimated when in shock in A4ftms, Carroll, DeKalb and Allen counties, but Steuben and Pu}ftski counties the yield is dess; in the latter county where an average of fifteen bushels had been estimated 1,500 acres threshed a yield of 9,000 bushels only, and half of that poor wheat. The oats harvest continues, and in most counties it is nearly all cut; it does not ripen even in Starke county, some part of a field cut, while the other part is still green. Fall plowing has begun in many localities. Large hail injured corn in Tipton county, and high winds did damage in Jay, Tippecanoe and Tipton counties. Chinch bugs are still bad in localities, and grasshoppers in Miami and Marshall counties.