New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-30
THE CROPS.
SUMMER WORK IN THE wpsr


From Our Special Correspondent
LINCOLN, ILL.,, July "a, La
For the past two OF three weeks Con-,
Illinois mas been favored with good many small sho,
which had the appearance Of raining all around "a ~
except IN the particular place where the observer 49,
chance TO be. Although numerous they were very
lizing showers wetting but corner of one farm q,
Even the largest corn had begun to show snVals q, 49,
tress; curling up its blades like cigar On sundsv
l1th lust, however. came good, soaking rains q -
The weather for tho past two weeks has been the ~.
test ever experienced In Lincoln Friday LAT
mercury 10 1919 at the Post Office and stood al we
at o'clock in the afternoon Here In tae conntrss ~
mercury rose to 1882. Friday aud Saturday many 4, ~
harvest hands gave ont and stopped work The exy.s
heat OF last week has put the finishing OF harvest hs
number OF days. There have been number OF cases -
sunstrOke, and some deaths.
The wheat harvest is not yet over on this par,n.,
There is not only much wheat TO be cut yet with res
put e neaaers nave only iaiily GOT 3work Tue rain q
much OF the very ripe wheat which, previous TO the raa
had begun to "crinkle down" badly. noticed header
running in Italian yesterday, which had to cut H.
straw low any reaper. Each succeeding day IN -
haryest-feld adds TO the conviction that our crop IA
has been quite favorable for such late wheat as Gun
Fife, Tea, and Rio orande. Had there been :
few "muggy" showers for two or three
Wheat must hSve rustcd badly The average yield
Spring wheat is laid by different men, at from Il 70
bushels to the In ersing with number Of
men yesterday, find that of them who have whs
are called good peees by their neghbOrs lay their crop
at much less than 20 bushels TO the Some pieces a
Club are laid at IS bushels the acre. but perhaps es
guess at their acres we'll as their bushels Wheat
buyers in Lincoln contracting to pay 81 Is bushsi
for good wheat delivered this week, but won't lei con
tract run the first minute into next week. saw mss
trying to get the privilege Of delivering 5000 bushels by
Wednesday Of next week. but IL was no go. When ems
thinks of the immense labor of getting out and hauling
5000 bus lels to market In nine days, be feel
Is cents per bushel more Tor II than
get it out and deliver It, Here are Few OF the ems
where has TO thresh out OF tne shock ana deliver
eghthOrse power threshing machines with not less has
four hands to EACH and boy ana morse tg rake straw,
three teams TO each machine 10 haul the wheat up hs
shock and the hands with them; the teams and driven
10 haul the wheat six miles TO town small PaTaguayaa
army OF sneighbor women" gathered I'm 10 help cook
snV amount OF horseeed and provisions sueh exuSer
ant quantities only rich COW ana hog country Ike
Central illinois can afford II is like running ciroas
OF our Western farmers who crowd their wheat into
ket Just they get out about 0neenta DO
because they think the early market VIII be The
best the remaining nine-tenths because they are
hard up, and must get the money out Of Il
The greater share Of wheat will not seek market
until Il has gone through the sweat In the stack and
farmers fearful that by that time may be down 70
dollar or even seveny.6ve cents per bushel All 81
them feel that before another crop grows IL will bring
fair price, but their need Of money stands in their vaJ
Corn is doing spendidy. The rain OF sunday came
just in good time One more rain at setting Tune" WIN
make the crop; always provided We have fsyofa
BILE fall The prospect now is that we shau have better
crop than for two years past.
supposed our warfare with potato bugs ended sad
our bruised pans hung up as monuments, the oldfssh
and SKINNED them good. Had the strong man known
etc. would most probably have taken bushes and have
driven them out; but he was busy in the wheatfeM
The arly potatoes we're ripe as not TO DO Injured
by them, but they may have given the bad
scald discover that the striped the Colorado
bugeas all other potatoe tops III preference 70 Peach
blows
am mowing;from a tun to tun and half OF hay 70
the rst of March (which beats anything In the grs
line ever knew. a,
fruit is wOrmier than ever known before. s.PA<