Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — Condition of the Crops. [ARTICLE]

Condition of the Crops.

The following crop summary will be printed in this week’s iesne of the Farmer’s Review: “Our reports of last week fail to show any better condition of the winter wheat than previously reported. A considerable acreage has been plowed up and seeded in other crops in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana Missouri and Southern Michigan. From all sections comes the complaint that the season is cold and backward and spring seeding much delayed. Meadows and pastures show considerable irjury from the drouth of last summer, the severity of the winter and the long period of spring freezing and thawing. The country is nearly bare of forage from last year’s crops. In many cases the farmers have been barely able to carry their stock through the grass Tne prospects for fruits, especia ly small fruit?, is reported fairly good. While the season might open more propitious, there is yet a chance for the making of a full crop in al. farm products, winter wheat alone excepted, which most fall considerably below an average crop.”