Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — RAPID GROWTH MADE BY CORN. [ARTICLE]

RAPID GROWTH MADE BY CORN.

Weekly Government Bulletin Report* Some ltamajj to Wheat. The general summary of the weekly crop report of the weather bureau is as follows: Although excessively hot- and dry in parts of the middle Atlantic States and Kentucky and Tennessee during the fore part of the week ended July 24—and these conditions also prevailed in the northern plateau region and on the North Pacific coast—as a rule temperatures were favorable. Showers delayed work and caused some damage to crops in Virginia, West Virginia and parts of the lower Ohio, central and lower Mississippi valleys, Oklahoma and Texas, while rain .is needed in New England. Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Kansas and generally® throughout the plateau districts.

Favorable weather has caused rapid growth of corn, and, with very few exceptions, the crop is in excellent condition. Corn is beginning to need rain in Kansas and Alabama, the late needs cultivation in Arkansas and Kentucky, and some was damaged by high winds in Louisiana.

Winter wheat harvest is nearly completed in the principal wheat State's, and thrashing, which is well advanced, shows grain of good yield and quality in Kansas. Rains have delayed thrashing in Virginia and Maryland and caused further damage to grain iu shock or stack in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. On the north Pacific coast winter wheat is ripening rapidly in Washington, where harvest is in full progress, and harvest is general in Oregon, with good yields indicated. Spring wheat has continued to advance favorably in the spring wheat regions; the early sown is heading and filling well, and the late sown heading in North Dakota; the early is maturing in South Dakota and Wisconsin, and the crop is nearly ready to cut in lowa. Although black rust is reported from scattered localities in Minnesota and the Dakotas, no material damage is shown, and, with favorable weather conditions, serious injury is not anticipated. Complaints of smut are received from South Dakota, red rust in Colorado and most fields of North Dakota and some lodging in Wisconsin, while in Washington desiccating winds have been injurious to the crop in the filling, stage and caused shriveling.

Iu the principal ont-producir __ States harvesting of this crop is well advanced, while in the more northerly districts oats are heading, the early saivu are maturing rapidly, and harvest will be general during the coming week. The crop generally is in promising condition, although badly lodged in Ohio, and some complaints of lodging are received from Washington.

In Illinois grain in shock and standing crops have been damaged ill the south by heavy rains. Corn is tasseling and silking north and is in dition because of fine forcing weather. Wheat, rye and barley are in shock. The oat harvest is well advanced north. A good crop of hay lias been secured north, but there lias been considerable damage elsewhere. Potatoes, berries and grapes are promising; apples disappointing.