The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-06
The Growing Corn Crop.
MISSOURI.

Louisiana-COrn is now suffering bad
ly from the dry weather, and in great
danger of being a bad failure. There
can not be an average crop.
Wcston-Corn is back ward, and does
not look we'll now 1t will require Il
late fall to make Il good crop in this
section.
st. Joseph-Corn is as forward rs
usual had plenty Of rain out here, and
the prospects of a full crop were never
better. The weather is now very dry,
and should it continue. so, the corn will
be injured some.
IOWA.
Dubuaue-Corn in a majority of fields
looks poor, the almost incessant rains of
Nav and June prevented farmers from
cultivating in time, and, as cOnse-
uuence, grass and wheat are luxuriant.
OF late the extreme hot and dry weather
has tended to prevent the forming and
filing of the ears. Judging from the
present appearance, l shoald estimate
corn to make only two-thirds of n crop.
Muscatine-Corn looks bad, and If We
do not get rain soon the crop will be
failure.
Burlington-Tbe corn in some five or
six counties in this State, and three or
four counties in Illinois, on the opposite
side of the Mississippi, is very back
ward; wet weather in May and June,
and drought in July and August, have
well nigh ruined it, so that the crop
will be exceedingly light.
Bloomfield-COrn is failure. The
weather in the fore part of the season
was cold and wet, and it could not be
worked, and it is now overrun with
grass and weeds, and can not be over
half an average crop.
ILLINOIS.
Decatur Corn very backward and
less than an average crop.
Breadstown-Corn is in bad cOndi-
ton. A cold, wet spring, and drought
during summer, and, from present pros
poets we think there will not be half Il
crop.
Cormi-The crop will be an average
. Edwardsport-Cern is III bad cOndi-
ton. The weather has been dry since
June, and before then cold and wet it
burned early in July, and did not ear
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no ears.
INDIANA.
Greencastle-Cornw was late in being
planted, in consequence of the cold and
wet spring, and has suffered consider
ably from the ong-continued dry
weather, and cannot, from present indi-
cations, make but little, if any, more
than half crop. In the best bottom
lands it looks well, but when you ex-
anime it there, you find that it is not
filling up full and plump, and many
stalks have no shoots in them. The me-
dunn upland is bad failure.
Eugene--The corn is backward,
though in this immediate vicinity it
looks well-rather better than usual.
Crawfordsville-The corn crop is
backward and very weedy. 1t will take
all September to make two-thirds an
average crop. The past summer has
been the most unfavorable one for corn
have known for long time. Up to
the last of june it was cold and wet,
and the corn could not be worked, so
that the weeds aud grass covered the
ground; aud when the dry weather
came in July, the blowing seemed to
injure it.
Hagerstown-Corn is backward and
has been injured by the dry weather,
though there have been some rains the
past week, which may help it some,
though in no case can il be an average
crop.
Hazelton- Corn is now suffering for
want Of rain. 1t is firing" as it Is call
ed partly owing to the dry weather
and partly owing to the number of
plants in hill. This is feature in
planting corn which is overlooked by
farmers generally. When there is but
one stock in the hill no ordinary dry
weather will "fire" it, Two stalks will
do pretty well; bat when there are four
or five, as is often the case, dry weather,
such as We now have, proves ruinous.
Covington-Corn poor and backward.
1t will not he over half crop, and
doubtful that it will be this, il the crop
of last year is to be the standard. The
season has been too cold and too late to
make good orn.