Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1905 — BUMPER CORN CROP CERTAIN. [ARTICLE]

BUMPER CORN CROP CERTAIN.

Continued Favorable Weather Assures Maturing; of Grain, The weekly crop bulletin of the weather bureau summarizes crop conditions as follows: The weather conditions of the week as a whole were exceptionally favorable to agricultural interests. Under the influence of warm and generally dry weather throughout the central valleys, lake region and Atlantic coast districts late crops matured rapidly. Florida and portion of the central gulf districts suffered injury from excessive rains, while much needed rains fell in the Rocky Mountain and North Pacific coast regions. The middle and South Atlantic States and southern Texas are in need of rain. Frosts occurred in the middle Rocky Mountain districts and in the upper Ohio valley, lower lake region and northern portion of the middle Atlantic States, but caused no serious injury. Highly favorable weather prevailed throughout the principal corn States. An exceptionally large and fine yield of corn is now assured over much of the greater part of the corn belt, and only a very small part of the crop in the north central portion, estimated at from 2 to 5 per cent of the total, remains exposed to injury from frost, and this is maturing rapidly. The crop in Missouri was extensively blown down or lodged, but notwithstanding this and the damage by September floods the yield in that State will be very heavy.