Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1891 — THE COUNTRY’S CROPS. [ARTICLE]

THE COUNTRY’S CROPS.

Corn in Danger of Not Maturing Properly —Plenty of Potatoes. The August returns of the Department of Agriculture make the condition of corn 00.08; spring wheat, 95.5: spring rye, 83.0; oats, 80.5; barley, 93.8; potatoes, 90.5; tobacco, 83.5; hay, 00.0. Corn has fallen off two points during the month, the decline being almost entirely in the States of the Ohio valley-and the Northwest. The decline was due to dry ..weather, approaching drought in portions of Indiana and Illinois and tho temperature in all sections of the corn surplus districts, The crop continues late in most . sections, the result of the poor start and absence of Hot, forcing weather during July. Unless August should prove unusually favorable, and the season be a long one, there Is grave danger that, the crop may not mature properly. Whilo the general average is reasonably high, correspondents qualify by empliasizing the necessity for a favorable season from this date on. -In the surplus States tho averI ages are: Ohio, l!3; Indiana,Bß; Illinois,B3; lowa, 90; Missouri, 87; Kansas, 89; Nebraska, 89. It should be noted that but one of the surplus States returns an average higher than an aviTEge for tlia coun-