Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1889 — Crop Reports. [ARTICLE]

Crop Reports.

In the States of the Ohio valley, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, and lowa and Kansas, (he crops are greatly, improved by the favorable weather of the past week. In these States the corn crop Is in excellent condition and maturing rapidly. A large crop of oats has been harvested, and the hay crop is mneb heavier than was expected at the first of the month. In Michigan the cool nights were unfavorable to corn, and some damage resulted to the crop in Missouri from local storms and drought The good tobacco crop of Ohio, Indiana and Virginia was improved by favorable weather. More rain is needed. In the cotton region, extending from Georgia to Texas, the weather was favorable and the cotton crop improved, although cotton wormß are on the increase from Alabama westward to Arkansas, and have caused some damage to the crop. Mississippi reports caterpillars in thirteen -eeontie*,—ln the eastern portion of the cotton region the crop has been somewhat damaged by rain, but farmers are yet hopeful. In New England, New York and New Jersey the weather was generally unfavorable. Potatoes are rotting from excessive rain, and it has been too cold for corn north of Pennsylvania. Hay, oats and barley have been damaged in New York, and the fruit crop injured in New Jersey by heavy rain, bail mid severe thunder storms. In Pennsylvania the com crop is in fine condition, and a large second crop of hay is being harvested. Rain has interrupted the threshing of wheat in the western portion of Oregon, but these rains will doubtless prove beneficial to fruit