Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — WEATHER CROP CONDITIONS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WEATHER CROP CONDITIONS.

Weekly Report of the Agricultural Department for Different Sta.te«. The reports as to the condition of the crops throughout the country and the general effect of the weather on the growth, cultivation and harvest ot' same made by the directors of the several climate and crop sections show that intense heat and lack of rain, conditions which characterized the preceding week in the Southern States, have continued and have affected the principal crops in that section very unfavorably. While the week has been excessively warm throughout most of the country east of the Kockv Mountains, the injurious effects of tho heat upon crops has been largely confined t<% the Southern States, and cotton is the crop which his suffered to the greatest extent. The cotton crop has deteriorated generally throughout the Cotton belt. The Intense heat and lack of moisture has caused premature opening of bolls and shedding, and in Arkansas on uplands, the plant is dying. CeMtral and northern Texas and Oklahoma hot winds have seriously injured cotton and under the' most favorable future conditions the crop in Texas will be below the average. The general condition of the crop is much in advance of the season. North Carolina reports that the first bule'has been marketed in that State, earlier than ever known, Late corn has been injured tfL some extent by hot winds in portions of

Kansas and southwest Nebraska, and the crop is suffering from'drought in the, southern portion gs Missouri find Illinois. Generally throughout the Soathern States corn has not made good progress during the week, but in the great corn States of the central valleys' and northwest the crop is maturing rapidly under mostt favorable conditions, and much of the early planted corn as far north as lowa will be made by September 1, much

earlier than usual. The general condition of tobacco is promising, although ripening too rapidly in portions of Tennessee and Kentucky. The crop is much in advance of the season and" cutting is now in progress in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New England. Considerable plowing for (gll seeding has been done, but the extremely warm weather of the past Week has interrupted the work. Light frosts occurred in eastern Idaho on the morning of the fifth, Causing little or no damage.

ANDERSON AS HE RODE BEHIND THE TRAIN.