Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1905 — CORN CROP NEARLY ALL SAFE. [ARTICLE]

CORN CROP NEARLY ALL SAFE.

nig;h Temperatures Aid in the Rapid Maturing of the Grain. The weatiier bureau in its weekly bulletin summarizes crop conditions as follows: The temperature during the week ended Sept. 25 was favorable throughout the country, being nearly everywhere above the normal. Rains caused some damage in portions of the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys, while a considerable part of the south Atlantic and gulf States is in need of rain. Damaging frosts occurred in the middle Rocky Mountain regions and light frosts, with little or no injury, "Tii portions of tlie lower lake regain and interior of the middle Atlantic States. Except in limited portions of the Miss sbttri valley, corn has experienced a week of conditions highly favorable for maturing the crop, from 75 to 90 per cent of which is now safe from frost, the remainder requiring only about a week of favorable weather. In Nebraska considerable corn has been blown down by high winds, but this will only make harvesting more difficult, without reducing the yield. Some corn in shock in Missouri and Kansas has been damaged by moisture, due largely to rains of the previous week. The thrashing of spring wheat in the Dakotas and Minnesota was interrupted by rains during the first half of the week, but shock thrashing and stacking are not yet finished. In the Dakotas the yield and quality are variable and generally disappointing.