Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — PROSPECTo FOR GOOD CROPS. [ARTICLE]

PROSPECTo FOR GOOD CROPS.

Reports Indicate n Heavy Yield in tlie West and Northwest. Recent crop reports are to the effect that the outlook was never better than it is r now. Along nearly all the Western railway systems the winter wheat crop is be*" ing harvested, and will be about half of what is considered normal. Rains have recently fnllen over the entire West, particularly in Illinois, where complaints were being made of damage to hay, and near the southern boundaries, to oats. The actual damage to oats, however, will not affect general results. Spring wheat looks well, both in the West and Northwest. Prospects for a good corn crop are all that could be desired, nil reports received merely adding to the favorable outlook. In Illinois hay is short, as it Is also in southern Missouri, but In lowa, Nebraska,’ Colorado, and especially Wyoming, largs yields may be depended upon. . Potatoes and fruit promise well, and the recent rains have led the farmers to put in lata Cfdps of potatoes, corn, and flax wherever there was an. acre available. In soms sections of Illinois grain has had mors rain than was good for it, though in ths same districts corn has held Its oyfn. Oats cover a large acreage Everywhere, and with the possible chtmce of lodging through storms' or local damage from “rust,!’ which may come later, with ’extreme heat and moisture together, tbs crop sterns assured. An unusually large amount of sugar beets has been planted in eastern Nebraska, showing that farm_ers have confidence in that crop, notwithstanding past failures. Railroads ars preparing to move an Immense harvest. Charles S. Graham, an artist, formerly of Chicago, has mysteriously disappeared from the Hotel Mateo, Ban Francisco.