The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-09-20
THE 4FTERNooN NEWS
|coAbirtSR OF CROPS ExsouTHwEsH
southern Illinois Farmers Importing
Corn, whieh = Like Carrying
Goals to SeWeRStle-Miseel'
Lannon's TeIegramS.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, September l9,-The Tri-
Juns has comprehensive dispatches regard
ing the drought which has prevailed for
the past sixty days, One hundred and
seventeen reports from Illinois show the
greatest damage found in Southern Hill
nois where every crop has this season
proved failure. Corn is now being inn
ported to supply home demand. This
whole region is doing everything possible
TO ship out stock Of all kinds, in order that
The trials Of the coming winter may not be
80 severe. In Central and Northern Iii
nois the damage has not been SO great, but
the injury the crop has received has been
the greatest during August when the pros
poets as compared with July were reduced
nearly % per cent, Eight report the corn
crop equal to 1880; tity.tworeport the crop
damaged from % to 80 per cent; iiity-Hyc
report the crop damaged 70 per cent. and
appeared to be u failure.
7 Until within the last ten days winter
wheat fields were untouched, and the
harycst fields lay bare, dry and hard.
Here and there some blowing had been
done, but us u whole, blowing has been
very backward. In consequence OF the ex'
IRENE conditions then existing the farm
ers were not encouraged to turn q iurrow,
rs they considered the ground tnll OF
insects II wns the highth OF folly to. SOW
wheat. In fact II was impossible to do 1t, rs
the ground even where It has been plOwed
Twas so cloddy, that wheat could not BE-
ssown in manner that Il would pull
Through the winter, to say nothing of the
lspring The average report brings out these
facts.
Seven report an increase OF acreage over
1850. Eight report an acreage the same Us
SlSSO. Thirty-seven report that the acreage
xviii be decreased Astothe progress made
with the fall blowing and the preparation
ni the ground the report Is somewhat fuller
IThirty-two report nothing done, Twenty
report more or less progress, Twenty'toui
have their fields from one.half TO two-thirl'
{plowed. Missouri, out Of thirty'three re-
ports, over twO-thiTds, report the corn dam
Naged from twenty to fifty percent. Winter
sfwheat, out OF twenty.three reports, ovcl
,gtwo-thirls, show decrease in the acreage
Z The reports from this State show but very
;, little progress with the fall blowing. Thu
Il rains, however, Of the present week will bl
j OF inestimable benefit, and while seeding
\ will be much later than usual there hN
4been n decided change for the better, II
fthis respect It Is expected Kansas has beer
y more favored with rains since harvest thar
1 1any other state In the wheat belt mn
while there have been no general rains ye
!, many counties have had sufficient III lns I
y enable fall planting to go ahead and seed
9 ing il now in active progress. Farmers
8 ihowevcr, are not inclined, with the cxper
fence Of the last two years, to increase thei
lwheat average, preferrihg to rlIse more corr
and live stock and less winter grain.
As to the corn crop In Kansas, OH
'SOf thirty.eight reports on corn, onl,
Zone shows crop equal to 1880, ant
IA majority Of the reports all indcNt
Q damage from dronth from 20 to IS per cent
!, 1.-THE reports N to fall seeding show goOt
= progrcss made with blowing, and sgedin
well along. As 1.-THE average there seem
Ito be u very small per cent Of the report
Q IshOwing decrease.
j From Ohio and Indiana there are o. re
3pOrts; "A report the corn damaged from b
4 to 70 per cent, and 80 report the d0mag
y from from 10 to 10 per cent, The cOndi
II ton OF the corn il no better than In tin
e. other portions Of the corn belt. AS to tn
o rogrCss Of the fall seeding and acreage o
.9winter wheat, from 60 reports, 30 rcpOr
3 the ground too dry for plowlng md the re
I imaindcr in all conditions. In other word
sYone half Of the ground had been plowct
j and the other half anticipated change be
y fore anything could he done. As to TIL
\ aCreage, out Of IS reports lS report tn
D leverage decrease s per cent the same as Il
3 1880, md 0 IN increase overIlSS0.
y From Iowa Al reports, 81 report corr
damaged from 10 to - per cent the gener
v al average OF which Is q damage Of B3 pc
g cent, and the remainder report fNir crops
!. .Nebraska sends "a reports. Nine repOr
s corn damaged from 80 to 50 per cent, AM
), THE remainder show reduction In III
Q yield which varies from one.fourth Of III
7, Ecrop to total failure. While NinnesOt
e docs not belong to the. corn belt, "
It tshe has, according TO her averlgC
gid better crop OF corn this season than thOs
: Estates which make this grain n specially
,fAWhilc all other Northwestern States haV
Y fsuiIered from the drOuth this state has OF
4 the contrary, had too much rain, and
v snow away beyond any danger Of frost, 4
Q the intense heat Of August has forced tn
. iGrop TO premature maturity, and the lat
h Scorn has been very badly dried up TIL
eScorn fields are us brown As berry; ind Il
4 tmany districts 1t is now ready to b
+ fgathercd. In Kansas, for two weeks, til
N farlners have been cribbing their ne,
z corn ..l..