Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1888 — CROP REPORT. [ARTICLE]

CROP REPORT.

The weather crop bulletin for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 1, states that the weather during the past week has been unusually favorable for ripening, harvesting and threshing of wheat in Minnesota and Dakota. It has also been favorable in the greater portion of the corn belt, but too much rain fell in the extreme southern portions of the States bordering on the Ohio. Reports from Kansas indicate that the corn crop is secure and past possible injury from frost. Light frosts occurred in the upper lake region, probably causing some damage to the cranberry crop in Wisconsin. The weather has been too cold in Michigan to favor a rapid growth of corn, but no injury is reported to the crop in that State, and cutting will commence next w eek. Reports from Kentucky show that the heavy corn crop in that State has been somewhat damaged by recent rains, and that the season has been sufficiently favorable to insure a good tobacco crop.