The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-18
THE CROPS.


crops, the reports continue to indicats
that we shall have bonntiful supply
of grain and fruits this season. a few
Of stiSe clippings from orr exchanges,
selected from large number, indicate
the character of all, and are as follows:
- OHIo.-Thc Scioto has this week been
spreading itself over the bottoms, and /
doing a very large amount of damage
to the corn fields along its banks. We |
learn that hundreds. of acres viii be to |
repiaHt. The damage done cannot be |
estimated, but must necessarily be very |
large ircterttte Union, June 4.
:. Wheat, corn and other
grain, as well as fruit generally, are |
represented by our exchanges as un- |
usually promising.
DELAwARE.-In Delaware the culti-
yators of fruit have been taking coun- /
sci among themselves in regard to their |
prospects, which latter they have dis |
covered to be very flattering A meet |
ing of the Dover Fruit Growers As
ISOLATION, held last week, ELECTED the |
opinions of well informed persons, par |
ticularly iii regard to the peach crop. |
They sar that unless some adverse in
fiaenee interferes, which is scarcely TO |
be expected, the peach crop of Della |
ware will exceed all previous produc- |
| ton.
INDIANA.-The growing crops every /
where throughout the State are report |
ed as most 1ourishing. The wheat !
never looked better, is a remark heard |
on every hand, and if no misfortune
overtakes the growing crops we shall
/ have a much larger yield than has ever
been harvested in Indiana The corn
crop is late, in fact planting is not yet
completed, but when entirely through
I the amount planted will be large, and
with our present warm weather it will
rapidly develop, and we may reason
ably expect a large yield of this great
staple Fruit of all kinds will be
abundant. Apples and peaches prom
/ Use much more than all average Weld,
and all kinds of small fruit will be
| plenty Indianapolis .Jo1t47,aI.
| The crops in the river bottoms are
| badly damaged by the high waters. as
all the low lands arc, or have been, I'M
der water.
Farmers in the bottom lands indulge
in the hope that the high water will
recede so that they can replant corn on
| the 18th inst, in which case, with no
| further floods, a crop will be secured
Ierre HdNte Cypress.
| We are informed by some of our
| farmers that the late rains have serious
! ~ damaged the wheat, that particular
/ Nv which was most thrifty, being bent
/ or broker down.-ViAcennes San.
The LoganspoYt Phqros says: Sup
| to the past week the crop prospect III
in this county, and throughout the
| northern part of the State, was never
more promising of an abundant WELD;
! bat the heavy rains of the past five days
! have greatly injured both corn and
wheat. Fields of wheat that one week
ago were all that the heart of the farm
er could have desired, are now, to ex-
press it i'll the language of a farmer to
US the other day, as though heavy log
/ had been rolled over them The rain
has beaten and broken the stalks to the
ground, and so rank has become the
growth that there is no prospect that it
can ever raise and head out. Nothing
| but an abundance of straw will be
reaped from fields that gave the most
abundant promise. No better is the
corn prospect"
! MTcn1GAN.-The Detroit Post saws
| wheat is almost invariably first rate.
There are some few pieces of wheat on
heavy, wet soil that will in the worst
parts of those fields produce small par
cells of smutty wheat, but not enough
/ to furnish even pretext to the army
| of croakers. Oats are getting well
rooted and showing every indication of
a good crop. The corn grounds are all
planted, and it is coming forward first
I rate. Some which was earlier planted
is already up. The fruit is now set,
aud SO very abundant that unless we
are favored with q few hail storms, or
other causes, TO strip off a portion of it,
the fruit trees viii be broken down and
destroyed by their excessive burdens.
! Very few potatoes are planted in COM
parison with last year. Those planted
! early are up. The last crop of potatoes
| is selling, almost all along the road, at
4 20 cents, and not any buyers at that
4 price"
! NEBRAsKA.-The Nebraska CITY Press
| of May 81 says: "We don't believe
any State between the two oceans can
| produce, at the present writing, better
show for small grain than Nebraska.
The Indications now appear to be that
with our prolific soil, we need some
check to prevent nature from OVERRIDING
the matter. With regard to corn, the
! weather thus far has not been seeming
! ly so propitious. Unusually cool as il
| has been this plant has not come for
/ ward so rapidly as many anxious farm
ers would be glad to see it,"
WIsooNsrN.-The Shcboygan Herald
\ says: Winter wheat looks spleHdidly
/ now, anu PROMISES ndi,-
vest. Spring wheat is BEGINNING to
show itself. n large proportion of The
cOrn'is planted. aud other crops well
Under way. Vegetation of all KINDS
has grown luxuriantly the past two
weeks. The fruit trees are blossoming.
fruit buds are abundant and well deveI-
/ Oped, and there is every prospect of
large crop"
! The GAINESVILLE, Wis, Gazette learns,
from farmers i'm various parts of Rock
county, that grubs are doing immense
mischief to the corn. Some fields
which came up nicely, have been almost
wholly ruined by these pests. From
/ the best information it can obtain. the e
is every reason to believe that corn and
{ potatoes are likely to have rough pas
sage, the one suffering severely by the
grub and the other by the bug.
/ The Sheboygan, Wis, Times reports
! that winter wheat is locking well.
/ Spring wheat looks very well, thougli
( late sown.
The Mansion, Wis, Star says:
! Long-eontinued wet weather is seri-
ously injuring the crops. Until within
small grains never looked better Fall
wheat yet looks well and All abundant
crop. Corn, unless the fall is renlarka-
fbly favorable, must beeli9ht. Very
many farmers have not vet planted and
| tlree-foursllsa OF that heretofore sown !
has rotted.
ILLINoIs.-Thc Shelby County Union |
of the al save.