The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-02

Prospect.
MINNESOTA.
A st. Paul dispatch to the Chicago
Tribune says: "The weather continues
favorable for the harvest. The major
part of the spring wheat is in shock
or stack. The threshing machines are
busy, and the yield, so far as reported,
nearly equal to the sanguine expectations
at the opening of the harvest. Grain
dealers estimates state the crop at 3d.
600, 900 bushels, and the quality generally
above the average of previous years.
Buyers here are offering SLIT to $1.20
for old for miller's immediate use. Re
ported contracts for new, September and
October, delivered at various points on
and near the river, range from CSC to
$1.05."
KANSAS.
The Lawrence Journal publishes crop
items from forty counties of the State
fully corroborating the reports and esti
mates heretofore published of large
yield of nearly every description of field
and garden products.
COLORADO.
Refreshing rains are reported through
out Colorado and New Mexico, and the
prospect of an abundant grain crop is
unusually promising.
IOWA AND NEBRASKA.
A correspondent of the Chicago ITi
bune writes from Omaha: "Having
travelled through Southern and Western
Iowa and Northern and Central Ne
braska, I can give you the condition of
the crops along these lines. Wheat in
Iowa will be twenty-five per cent. short
of 1874, while in Nebraska there will be
100 per cent. more for shipment than in
1874; quality of grain not so good. You
may look for large receipts from here
during the next thirty days. Wheat in
Nebraska is bringing eighty-fve cents to
one dollar per bushel, which induces the
farmers to sell. Corn is excellent, both
in Iowa and Nebraska. Corn can now
be bought for from twenty to twenty-five
cents for the future, of the coming crop.
This is wonderful relief to the people
here, and already the effects are percep-
tible. No injury is now expected to the
corn, save from frost. Rye, oats and
barley are considered an average crop"
ILLINOIS.
The Springfield Register says of the
corn crop: "Upon conversing with
many farmers, we learn that grave appre-
tensions are entertained as to the ap-
preaching corn crop. Owing to the cold,
cloudy, wet weather, corn is growing
rank, but is not filling as it should.
Warm sunshine is what is now needed
badly. The crop is not ripening, and
unless this process commences soon the
frost will catch it. There is much anx-
iety in regard to this matter among our
leading producers.
WISCONSIN.
An Oshkosh correspondent writes to
Chicago paper "Only about one fifth
of the wheat crop in this section of the
State has been cut and the remainder
is not injured, except by being lodged
and trampled down. The harvested
wheat will probably not suffer greatly
where it was properly shocked up. Far
mers are still hopeful, and, with week
or ten days Of clear weather, they will
harvest the best crop for many years.
Corn, however, is almost total failure.
Apples are also total failure, but other
kinds of fruit are doing WELL"
THE NORTHWEST.
line CncaSO I1nleS OF the l1SG pr1nlS
comprehensive reports as to the condi-
ton of the spring wheat crop in the
Northwest. In Wisconsin, Minnesota,
and Nebraska nearly all reports agree
that this will be year of plenty. The
wheat has mostly been cut and stacked
the quantity is far above the average,
and the quality never excelled. There
will be at least one-fourth more wheat
exported from those States than in
any previous year. Iowa will proba-
bly, average as large a crop as heretofore,
some counties falling below and others
exceeding the yield of former years.
All reports from Kansas agree that a
more bountiful harvest has never been
garnered in that State than that of the
present season. In Illinois but little
spring wheat is grown. AS far as reports
go, it would appear that there is no rea-
son for complaint that the crop will be
fully up to the average of former years,
if it does not exceed it. Taken all in all
the prospect is decidedly encouraging.
There is every reason to expect a full
return for the labor of the year in all di-
rections.
THE GENERAL OUTLOOK.
The Cincinnati Price Current of Aug.
20 contains what it claims is the fullest
and most comprehensive presentation OF
the Western crop reports yet published,
comprising about $50 special returns