People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — STATE CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

STATE CROP REPORT.

From The l'. S. Weather Bureau at Purdue Fnlver«*ity. WEEK ENDING MONDAY, AUG. 26. The weather for the past week has not been as warm as the preceding one, but about as dry; a few local showers have been chronicled, but sufficient rain did not fall to materially benefit the growing crops. The corn on low. gray and marsh lands is doing fairly well and a good crop is still expected, but on stony, sandy and clay lands the crop is hastening to maturity without full development; it is burning up in many parts. Pastures, with few exceptions, have become brown and are drying up; stock, necessarily, is being fed. Potatoes and tomatoes are doing fairly well; late potatoes are being injured by the dry weather. Tobacco is being prematurely ripened, consequently it is being cut and housed. Fruit is still falling, but apples and pears will be plentiful. Water very searce; wells, springs and brooks in many places have become dry. Fall plowing has been discontinued in many localities on account of the ground’s dryness.