The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-07-24
Crops in the Counties-Notes and
Comments of The Press.

corn crop never lnohtu bttANl ~ lNiH SUI .
son. Oats are short, hut stand well on
the ground. Wheat much better than
expected The crop is not an average,
but the acreage being much larger than :
usual the gross number Of bushels Will
exceed the usual crop. Flax looks well,
hut the straw il short. Peaches are
plenty; apples sufficient TO supply local
wants. The dry weather in May made
the hay crop short.
Clark county. The Rccorl says
Wheat harvest i about over in Clark
county, and large average. ami finer
WELD per acre has been obtained than
ever before.
Carroll county. Delphi Times: Our
old friend. George w. Allen, of Burling-
ton township, handed Us n specimen OIL
wheat which he calls stump wheat. Four
years ago he planted a grain of wheat
that he gathered from remarkably largrl
stock in his field. From that single grain
he has 80 acres planted which lac say 81
will yield from thrty-tiyc to forty bush
els per acre.
Four counties. The Lagrange Stand
ard: trip. last week, through In
grange. Elkhart. st. Joseph and Laportel
counties. added confirmation 10 our pre-
viously formed opinion. that these coun-
ties are garden spot of the earth hardly
eXceled for prolific and abundant crops.
Such an ingathering Of wheat, in guam
tity and quality, has never before, we
believe been surpassed. We have even
heard of farmers conceding that the
wheat crop will be better than an aver
age. The growing corn looks magnih-
cent enough TO inspire fourth OF July
Grafton.
Grant county. Marion Chronicle: In
mentioning the condition and prospects
of the crops, we have neglected TO say
that nothing gives promise of greater
Weld than potatoes. Not only is the
area planted unusually great. but invari-
ably large yield is promised. The bugs
threatened to do some damage. but hav-
Ing been destroyed by the various meth
DDS known, rs fast ash they appeared.
they did no material damage. The late
flood OF rain, thoroughly soaking the
ground, and the now luXuriant vines
that so shade it that the moisture will
be well retained, certainly assures a
great crop.
Greene County.-The Worthington
Times The crops are locking unusually
well for this time of the year. Ii the
chintz-bugs and drouth do not hurst the
corn, the crop will be very abundant
one. Ii seems TO be the case all over
the county that corn will yield more
than an average crop, and the prospects
are that there will be an unusually large
number of hogs tattened the coming fall
and winter.
Henry County, Castle Times
The wheat will be mostly put in shocks
by Saturday night, and the meantime a
great many acres of clover will become
hay, well cured and in the mows. The
yield of wheat will be good and the
quality of grain excellent.
Jackson County, Seymour Demo
crat: The yield of wheat where il has
been thfeshed, has come fully up to OK
pectation. The universal verdict j. that
we have not had so good a yield OF
wheat, both in quantity and quality, for
many years.
Madison County. The Anderson
Democrat says: The chinch bug is do
ing considerable damage to corn in this
county. Thank fortune. the wheat crop
is out of danger. But for that we might
expect TO go down into Egypt for ouI
next winters supply Of provender.
Poscy County, Harmony Reg
lister. The wheat is all harvested and
the shrll whistle of the thrcsher will
soon be heard in the land. With few
exceptions, the farmers all acknowledge
that the crop of wheat Is exceedingly
fine. Some there are who do not ac-
knowledge this, but they would not do
so even ii their crop turned out humid
red bushels to the acre.
Pike County. The Petersburg Press
The yield of wheat this season is said TO
be the best for several years past. While
an occasional patch in fields will not
pay the cutting, some field, it is estima-
ted, will average thirty bushels to the
acre.
Spencer County. The Rockport Dem
ocrat: The wheat Is about all cut, and
the yield through the county is immense.
Vermillion County. The Hoosier
State reports: The wheat crop in this
county il now in the shock, aud though
many prominent farmers predicted six
weeks ago that the wheat crop would be
a failure in many portions of the county,
they are now convinced they were great
ly mistaken, and that there has not been
more bountiful crop raised tor many
years than the present one. Many farm
ers inform Us that their crop will yield
from 20 to % and 30, and some putting
1t high as SO bushels per acre. The
farmers of Nermillion county surely
have no just cause to complain this sea-
son. The corn crop will undoubtedly
be the largest that has been raised for
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