Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1874 — Condition of the Growing Crops in Several Western States. [ARTICLE]

Condition of the Growing Crops in Several Western States.

Indianapolis, Ind., May 16. The National Crop lieporter published to-day estimates, deduced irom reports of its correspondents, in relation to the comparative area of spring wheat and oats this season in several Western States, the lateness of the season having prevented the closing of the usual spring sowings by May 1. The State of Minnesota is not included in the estimates. For the States of Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Missouri and Wisconsin the average area sown this spring to wheat is placed at 7 or 8-10 per cent, greater than in the spring of 1873; the increase is 4 6-10 in Illinois, 12 1-10, lowa, 6 1-10 in Kansas, 7 4-10 in Missouri, and 3 5-10 in Wisconsin. The acreage seeded in oats this spring, in comparison with the area sown last spring, is increased in the States named as tollows: Indiana, 2 6-10 per cent; lowa, 9 8-10 per cent; Kansas *8 8-10 per cent.; Ohio, 8 5-10 per cent; Wisconsin,. 30 10 per cent. In Illinois there is an estimated falling off in the area of 11-10 per cent., and in Missouri 1 2-10 per cent. The average for the seven States is an increase of 5 2-10 per sent. At the figures given the increased area is about 255,000 acres of oats and 427,000 acres of wheat for the States named. Returns in relation to the comparative condition of Bwlne in the West, May 1, indicated a much higher condition than at the beginning of the previous month. The average condition, May 1, in the States of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin and Ohio was 87 3-10 per cent., a full average condition' being 100. No especial change in the prospects of the. fruit crop is noted, the outlook being still more favorable. —About eleven o’clock one night a policeman met a negro carrying a trunk along the street, and, thinking he had discovered an item, he • collared the negro and told him to drop that trunk and explain. “ I kin do it, sah," replied the stranger as he put the trunk down. “De family what was boarding me has been axing for money, and as dey was gwyne out to-night I thought I’d git into some family whar dey respected de panic.” He was allowed to go on,