People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — STATE CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

STATE CROP REPORT.

From The (I. S. Weather Bureau at Purdue University. WEEK ENDING MONDAY, SEPT. 23. CENTRAL PORTION. Hot and dry sunny weather caused corn to mature very fast, and most is cut and in shock, promising generally a good yield; nearly all still standing is safe from frost. Wheat and rye is coming up nicely and looks well, especially in Delaware, Union, Madison, Henry and Marion counties. Tomatoes are ripening fast; in Marion county a large crop is being sent to canning factories. Clover hulling continues, with a fair yield; all is threshed in Rush and Union counties. Potatoes are being dug; the crop in general is not very large. Sweet potatoes are growing and in good condition. Apples are very abundant, and much cider is made; there are not barrels .enough in Union county to hold it. Pasturage is still in fair condition, but needs rain. Live stock in general is well; in Rush county many hogs are dying. Stock water is again scarce in Franklin and Rush counties. Buckwheat and millet are being harvested, a fair crop. NORTHERN PORTION. Warm, dry and very "windy weather continued. Corn matured nicely; most is cut and in shock, and nearly all of it is be : yond injury by frost; the crop in general is good; in Marshall county it is the best and largest crop foi years. A tine and good crop of tomatoes is ripening fast, especially in Starke. Elkhart. Allen and Kosc ; usko counties. Buckwheat and millet harvest continues; the crop in general is good; in Lake county the buckwheat and millet crops are large. Wheat seeding continues and is nearly done, and rye and earlier sown wheat are coming up nicely; the fly has made its appearance in the wheat in LaPorte and Whitley counties. A lurge crop of tomatoes are growing well in Allen county, and plenty of cabbages in Elkhart county. A fair crop of clover seed is nearly all hulled. The potato crop in general is good; in Huntington county the crop is large, but in Carrol 1 and Jay counties there are but few in the hill. Pasturage is green but short and needs rain; in Whitley county grass is getting dry. The peach crop is excellent in LaGrange county, and apples are very abundant; hundreds of bushels were blown off by strong winds in Elkhart and LaGrange counties; so much cider is made that it is hard to sell in Elkhart county. Stock is in fair condition. but stock water is scarce in Carroll and LaGrange counties

f'ar>nern’ Institute. At a preliminary meeting held at the Makeever house Saturday. Sept. 14. it was decided to hold institute meetings at Union school house, Jordan township, Thursday. Sept. 26, and at Center school house, Gillam township, Friday, Sept. 27. These meetings are being held preparatory to the regular annual meeting, which will be held later on. The agricultural station at Perdue has general supervision of all farmers’ institutes and will furnish speakers who are thoroughly competent to give instruction in farming, and if there is any prejudice against farmers' institutes in Jasper county it ought to be dispelled at once. The facts are that the station is run on the most economical plan, and wholly devoted to the agricultural and mechanical interests of the state, and it is the only school in the state where the young men of the state are taught farming. It is hoped the good people of Jasper will make these county institutes grand successes. L, Strong. President. Acute Kleptomania. "When I was in India,” said the man who had traveled, “ the native thieves stole the sheets from under me while I slept, and I never knew it!” “Yes, and when I was in the Northwest during the boom," said the man who will never admit that America can be outdone, “I had to sleep in a room where there were four real estate agents and one of them stole a porous plaster from my back without awakening me.”

Mygterioug Affair. First Doctor —I had a very interesting case the other day. The diagnosis was all right, but the course of the disease was decidedly abnormal. Second Doctor—What course did it take? First Doctor—The patient recovered. ’Tls greatly wise to talk with our past hours. And ask them what report they bore to heaven. —Young.