Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-14
cRop NOTES.

bdIleN Is DCibS Aai NSotSu IA
week.5[Sarpy Sentinel.
The grain crop throughout the
county is simply enormOus.|Blair
Washington county, Times.
The excessive heat during last
week we fear will shrink late wheat
badly.--[Burtonian.
NJ. 3. Bellows, of Dixon county,
has walnut trees in bearing from
from seed planted four years ago.
IPonca Journal.
Farmers and everybody else are
jubilant over the prospects for an
abundant harvest. - CTecumseh
Chleftian.
The crops i'm the neighbOrhoOd
near the Reservation appear in a
very fine condition. columbus
Journal.
I'D. Syas says be threshed six
acres of rye that went Is bushels to
the acre.I[Fairmont Fillmore CO..
Bulletin.
Grave fears are now entertained
that the wheat crop will be some
what injured by the continued dry
~weather.5[Oakdale ANTELOPE co.,
Journal.
The new crop of barley is already
beginning to come in. MI. Wilson,
a flax mill man, handed US a bunch
of flax that measured three feet six
inchsIAshland Times.
Farmers and everybody else have
long been praying for rain crops
have suffered somewhat, owing to
the continued drouth.-rBoone
County News.
g Barney Barnes, who resides six
miles north of West Point, has a
large field Of corn which averaged
six feet in height on the 4th of July.
"How Is that for high West
Point Republican.
Harvest time Is upon US. and
reapers are at work all over the
county. The crop promises to be
abundant, Notwithstanding the con-
tinuesl dry weather.-[Adams
County Gazette.
The most cheering ne VS. comes to
US from all parts of the country,
satisfying US that Saunders county
will produce more grain this season
than any other county in the
State.-TSaunders Republican.
Barley harvesting has COM
menced.
Young potatoes are plenty in
market.
We are informed that the wheat
crop Is being injured by the excess
sive heat.-[Dakota Mail. ~
A. J. johnson showed us the finest
specimen Of wheat, last Sunday, we
have seen this year. He has forty
acres Of As good wheat as was ever
grown, with a prospect Of yielding
25 bushels to the acre, This is what
Howard county al do.-CDanne-
brog Howard Co.. Sentinel.
A large amount of barley and
rye is already cut.
There il no Disgusting the fact
that crops in this vicinity n badly
injured by the intense heat and
drouth of the past ten days. Wheat
may be a half crop; with corn
doubtful. This is the general i'm
preston. -(Schuyler Register.
Crops are looking very well in
deed. Since the rain corn has been
growing at u wonderful rate. The
work Of harvesting the wheat crop
In this county is well advanced,
and We are confident of IN average
crop, notwithstanding the damage
caused by continued hot South
winds, which many thought would
result in almost a total failure OF the
wheat crop.-[Grand Island INDIE
pendent.
The early wheat is nearly or quite
ready to cut and will be a good
yield all owe the county, while
some or the later pieces will be cut
short a little unless rain comes soon
and many pieces are feeling the Of.
fects Of the dry weather now. The
wheat crop in this county Is not as
promising nov as it vas two weeks
ago, yet there will probably be q
fair yield. Fhe prospect for q pOta-
toe crop is good, as the bugs are do
ing but little work and early pota-
toes are nearly all out If Their
way.IHebron (Thayer county,
Journal.
Crops generally are looking well
and nowhere better than in the
valley OF the Little Blue i'm Nebras.
ks. Corn, In some places, has been
retarded in growth by the wet
weather, and, In eastern Kansas ss'
peclally, by weeds, but is growing
with wonderful rapidity. Wheat
looks well, and on the line Of the
road harvesting is in progress. The
prospect is also good fer a large
yield of potatoes, the damage by the
potatoe bug being less than wa.
feared earlier in the seasOn.-(Fair
bury Gazette.
Harvest Is hurrying on apace. A
the present moment Of writing, sew
eral pieces OF oats r ready for the
sickle. Its yield will be heavy o.
the uniform. Answer to the inqui
ries we have made as to its cOndi'
tion, is that it is splendid" Whea
will also be cut during the present
week. The wheat Is excellent, al
though it is possible that the las
few days of drouth has shortened it
The area Of rye and barley sown wa.
small, hut what there Is of it /.
good. Some pieces = now ripe
The potato crop is unexcelled, an(
unquestionably will survive the in
sect attacks, which have threatened
1t somewhat, Corn could not lOOi
better.J[Orleans (Harlan Co. Sen
tinel.