Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1887 — THE CROPS. [ARTICLE]

THE CROPS.

Rain in Some Localities, but Badly Needed as a Rule—lnjury from Chinch-Bugs. [Chicugo special.) The following crop summary was compiled by the Fanners’. Rerieic: Gur reports again show that some localities have been favored with beneficialrains, but, as was the case at the date of our former report, the majority of the counties in all of the Western States, except perhaps Missouri and Kentucky, need rain. Dakota is apparently in better condition as regards the crops than any State reporting. Thirteen counties in Illinois report an average condition in winter wheat of 90 per cent. Damage by chinch-bugs is reported in some counties, while ram is needed in others. Ten counties in Indiana report'the condition of winter wheat at an average of 85 per cent. The reports from the State are on the whole "gOOd'C—-- 1 ' y The weather in Michigan still continues very dry. Pastures are short from lack of of raifi. Twelve counties in Ohio report the average condition of winter wheat as low as 66 per cent. . . Eight counties in Wisconsin reprot an average condition of 85 per cent. Rain is badly needed. In lowa the average condition of winter and spring wheat is 100 per cent, and . prospects are good. Chinchb °R 6 are injuring the winter wheat in many, Kansas counties, while others are from the insect. Wheat is in good condition in Kentucky and rain plentiful. Spring wheat is in very fine condition in Minnesota. In Missouri eleven” counties report the . average condition of winter wheat at 91 per cent. Local rains have fallen in Nebraska. ’ during the pastweek, andwheat is in a fair condition. .. The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust more to him, armed with his than I do the soldier in full military array, for .upholding and extending the liberties of his country.— Lord Lrougham. The mob : s a monster with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus, strong to execute, but blind to jierce.ve.— Colton. . -Eleas, King of Scythia, used to say that while he was doing nothing he differed in nothing from his groom.