People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — CROPS OF INDIANA, [ARTICLE]

CROPS OF INDIANA,

V. S. Bureau, Indianapolis,

Warm, fair weather, with a few local rains only, was very favorable for harvesting and growing crops. Corn is in excellent condition t and growing rapidly, standing ‘quite high in many fields. It is being “laid by.” Oats are very fine and never promised better. It is ripening fast, and in the southern portion some has been cut. Beans have been planted. Potatoes are in good condition. Tobacco is looking well, but worms are bad in places. Sugar beets are making good progress. Vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons and berries are abundant. Wheat and rye thrashing continues; the yield in some localities is good, in other localities it is bad. Haying continues. The crop is good, but light; much has been pqt up in the northern portion. Young clover looks well; it needs rain in the northern portion. Pasturage is good. A good crop of timothy is being harvested. Plenty of fruit, especially peaches. Blackberries are ripening.

NORTHERN PORTION.

Lake county—Fine growing weather; good crops ( of corn, oats, pastures and meadows promised; fruit good. Porter county—Oats heavy and good; wheat and rye well filled; corn doing well, but needs rain; grasshoppers bad in places. LaPorte county—Little or no rain; wheat all cut and some thrashing done; considerable hay put up, rather light. Elkhart county —Oats promises a large yield; wheat thrashing now in progress, fair yield; corn growing well, but needs rain; grasshoppers and chinch bugs numerous in localities. LaGrange county—Corn needs rain; wheat thrashed, poor yield of medium quality; young clover dying in localities. Steuben county—Beginning to need rain; harvesting and bulk of haying about done; on July 3 had a very hard rain at Angola (2.70 inches in two hours); hay is a good crop; pastures fine; corn has rolled a little. DeKalb and Noble coun ties—Good rains in localities on July 3 have helped things; oats ripening fast; some corn tasseling; haying has been pushed; wheat all in shock. Allen, Whitley, and Kosciusco counties—wheat has all been cut and threshing is in order, only fair o-rop; rain is needed in localities; had heavy rains in Allen; oatsand corn very fine; hay crop nearly all cut; fruit fine; apples unusually free from scab in Kosciusco. Fulton county— Corn needs rain; oats turning and will be a fine crop; wheat threshing and haying being pushed; very poor quality of wheat; fruit, pastures and stock doing nicely. Benton county — Corn and oats doing well: good crop of wheat being threshed; rye not so good; potatoes and hay good. Carroll and Cass counties—Corn needs rain; threshing a poor crop of wheat and rye in Carroti, some wheat fields were not cut at all; oats heavy; corn still in good condition; fine hay being secured; berries about all gone except blackberries. Miami county— Wheat is turning out poorlysome fields good, others poor; gardens all doing well; plenty of berries; weather warm and dry. Adams county -Wheat in shock and as good as expected, was damaged by chinch bugs and fly; oats heavy and promises a large crop; an excellent quality of hay is being cut; corn is growing rapidly and is not as well cultivated as it should be on account of previous wet weather; fruit and potatoes promise a good crop. Grant and Blackford counties—A good but light crop of hay is being cut; wheat threshing has begun; everything on the farm in fine condition; oats turning. H. A. Huston, Director.