People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — STATE CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

STATE CROP REPORT.

From The U. S. Weather Bureau at Purdue University. WEEK ENDING MONDAY, AUG. 19. NORTHERN PORTION. The dry weather has lessened to some extent, a tine prospect for corn and other growing crops. Low bottom lands are producing wonderful crops of corn; corn is maturing rapidly and needs rain, but will still be a good crop except on high clay lands; late planted corn needs good showers. Potatoes are doing fairly well. Tomato crop fair. Cabbage will be small. There will be a fair crop of peaches and pears; apples are “falling off.” Quite au amount of rye is being sown. Pastures and meadows are very dry; streams are nearly all dry, and there is but little water for

stock. Ground not in very good shape for plowing. Sugar beets are “curling up.” CENTRAL PORTION. Hot and dry, nearly all sunshine. Early corn as yet not suffering very much on good land, and “tilling" splendidly, except on clay soil; corn “firing” in some localities. Clover is being cut for seed; thin on the ground, but very well filled. Tomatoes not doing so well. Potatoes will be cut short. Nearly all pastures have turned brown. Water scarce and wells going dry; water is being hauled for stock. Grapes ripening, but are not plentiful. Apples still “fallingoff” some.