Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — FARM WORK PROGRESSING. [ARTICLE]

FARM WORK PROGRESSING.

Weekly Reports of the Weather Bureau Covering Crop Prospects. The Weather Bureau, in summing up the situation in weather and crop circles, says that in the Southern States the week has been generally favorable for farm work, which has made good progress. In the more Northern districts, owing to ths lateness of the season, farming operations are much delayed, but are being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. Cotton planting is now quite general in the northern portion of the cotton belt, is well advanced in the southern portion, and the early plhntod is coming up. In Florida, it is nearly finished. Winter wheat is reported in excellent condition in Nebraska and eastern Kansas, and much improved and looking well in lowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and northern Illinois. Less fayorable reports are received from Wisconsin, Michigan, ' Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York, in some of which States It has been-winter kitted and is in poor condition. No corn has yet been planted north of the Ohio river, but some planting has been done as far north as Kentucky and Virginia. West of the Mississippi some corn has been planted as far north as southern Nebraska. Plnnting is nearly completed in Oklahoma, and is in progress in Missouri. In Illinois and Indiana plowing for corn is general. In the Southern States corn planting is practically completed.