The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-04
Illinois Crops,

The Illinois department of agriculture
has been publishing, as usual, crop re-
ports of the state, and the following are
summaries of these received Thursday last,
and published in the Illinois State Regis
ter:
La Sale COunty.-COrn, oats, meadows
and pastures promise an average yield.
Winter wheat looking we'll, but doubtful
if an average crop can be obtained. There
is about so per cent. OF the crops of 1878
in producers hands.
Kane County.-Corn, oats, winter
wheat, meadows and pastures promise
large yield.
Pike County.-Corn, winter wheat,
meadows and pastures promise as large a
crop as usual; oats much behind the
average.
Champaign Couuty.-Corn, oats and
meadows and pastures promise to yield a
large crop. Winter wheat will not do as
well.
Putnam Conuty.-Corn promises q
unusually large yield. Oats aud winter
wheat behind the average.
Efiugham County.-Corn promises to
yield a three-fourths crop. Oats doing
WELL Winter wheat not up to the stand
1875 in producers hands.
johnson County.-Corn and oats not
doing well. Winter wheat promises but
three-fourths yield. About ten per cent.
of the crop of 1878 in producers hands.
Clay County. promises TO yield
25 per cent more than 1878. Oats up to
the average. About 10 per cent of crops
Of 1878 in producers hands.
amrnnoa (lountu-Glrrn and nako rro-
misses larger crop than in 1878. Winter
wheat doing well.
Jersey County.-Corn promises an aver
age yield, Oats and winter wheat are
much behind the average.
Kankakee County.-COrn and oats
promise but three fourths crop; winter
wheat promises but o oDe-hslf crop.
About 25 per cent, of crop of 1878 in pro-
ducers' hands.
Mclean County. promises lar
ger yield than usual ;oats and winter wheat
bohind the average.
Livingston County.-Corn, oats and
winter wheat much behind the average.
Carroll County. promises an
average yield; oats aud winter wheat not
doing very well.
Vermillion County. condition
OF corn, oats aud winter wheat much bet
ter than usual, About 10 per cent. of
crop of 1878 in producers hands.
Gruudy County. Corn promises a three
ffths yield Oats way behind the aver
age. About 90 per cent. of crop of 1878
in producers hands
Kendall County. Report same as for
Gruudy.
Wayne County, Corn aud oats doing
very well. Winter wheat not up to the
average. About 20 per cent of last years
crop liz hands of producers.
Christian County promises to
yield crop considerable larger than 10
1878. Oats will yield but one-fifth the
usual crop. Winter wheat far ahead of
the average.
Hardin County. oats and winter
wheat promise to yield crop 5 per cent.
less than in 1878. About % per cent. of
crop of 1878 10 hand of producers.
As stated there was previous report of
the Illinois department of agriculture, but
without this the counties given above EN-.
brace enough to furnish St. Louis grain
interests with valuable information the
counties named embracing La Sale north,
Hardin county southeast, aud intermediate
counties west, central and east; but still
they constitute only about one fifth of the
counties of the state. Counties producing
winter wheat which would be more i'm
medlately tributary to our market are not
contained 10 the above, yet the counties
named are fair opponents of the condition
o. the three great cereal crops of our
neighboriDg state.
May closed quiet in settlement of con-
tracts, which may seem strange when it is
considered that both wheat and corn we're
so securely at the will of longs. But they
had magnanimously accepted settlements
alone Of contracts on the current cash ha-
sis, closing at 81 IA, the cash market for
several days past for wheat, aud 343c for
corn, and with which the shorts freely &C
corded. There was little May wheat left
for settlement at the close, but consid
siderable amount Of corn, which, however,
was closed out at the figure stated. Il
was OF course apparent that the opportun
lty existed for corner on both wheat and
corn,tor the stocks were small and held by
TWO or three parties, and receipts had no
prospect of enlarging them, but a fair
spiit prevailed, and the month closed un-
S SI aud satisfactorily to both sides of
NEBRASKA CROPS