, 1881-09-19
The GREAT DR0uTR.
What It Has Done to the
Corn Crop Of the
Country.
Damaged 1t Badly Everywhere,
md Has Almost Ruined
Pastures.
It Has Made Flowing for
Winter Wheat Almost
Impossible.
No Fall Seeding Worth
Mentioning Thus Far
Accomplished.
Present Prospects Point to a
Decreased Acreage for
the Year 1882.
The potato Crop Quite Generally
Amounts to Nearly a
Total Failure.
Vegetables OF All Kinds Certain
to Be Very Scarce This
Winter.
Damage by Moisture to Grain in Portions
Of Minnesota, Dakota, ind
Wisconsin.
Present Prospects Point to a
Decreased Acreage for
the Year 1882.
The potato Crop Quite Generally
Amounts to Nearly a
Total Failure.
Vegetables Of All Kinds Certain
to Be Very Scarce This
Winter.
Damage by Moisture to Grain in Portions
Of Minnesota, Dakota, ind
Wisconsin.

Wisconsin.
For over sixty days, frnm Ohio to the Mis-
8onr1, Il drot1th Of terrible srvusty Inns pre-
vailed, md we are ablc, through tho crop
correspondents 0f TllE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
to get ut soe general itlcn Of the magnitude
OF the loss which tic Country lsRs sustained,
and the ttecrcaso In raitroad tmAlc which
must certainly follow until next harvest.
Our report "opens with Illinois, III reltorts
from this State taking In the Northern. Crl-
tra1, anl Southern divisions. Tile greatest
damage to ail crnps Is funnd III SHuthcrls H.
linUls where every crop liNs this sRason
proved fnflure, nlltt c1rll Is now being I'M
ported to supply ilHnle demands TlIls
Whole region is now doing everything rossi-
bic to slip out stock Of nil kinds, In order
tllat tie trials uf tic coming wl'lter lnay not
be 50 severe. III Central nlld Southern ILL.,
nois tho ,lntnage has not been rs Kseat, but
the injury the crop received hns been tho
greatest during tho nlontll Ut Arg,st, when
tic prospects, ns compared WItll July, WerH
trtlnced nearly Is per cent. Wo classify our
reports us follows: Eight report tic corn
crop equal to 1ss0; tifty-two report the cr0p
damaged FROM 25 to *. per cent; ftty-Nye re-
port tbs crop damaged from 10 per cent to II
Failure.
wheat fields were untouched. The harvest
fields lay bare, TRY, a,al hard. 1t Ii trua tlat
hero and there snm0 plow[ng Ind bcel, done,
hut rs Whole pt0wlng was VERY backward,
anil In consequence 1f the extreme conditions
tien existing, farmers were ns,t encouraged
to turn Il furrow, MS they considered With tic
ground full OF insects 1t was simply tic
hight Of folly to SOW wheat; III fact, It WIS
impossible to du II, MS the ground. cvnll
where 1t hal been plOwesi, WAS no elo.ltly
that wheat could not Da sown ln n manner
that 1t would pull through tho winter. to ssIy
1lothIng about the spring. AZ 10 the acrcagr.
the report brings ont ueso facts: Seyeti
report MI incrcaso Of acreagv over 1850;
eight raportucrcnge sanle rs 1850; thirty
seven report Hcreago will bo decreased
As 10 the progress 1natlo with fall-plowlng
and the preparation Of the ground, the rcpurt
is somewhat fuller, a1ld we sltultl classify 1t
as follows: Thirty-two ruportnoth,Ig .lone;
twenty-0ne report inDre or less progress;
twanty-follr haze tleif j!ettls FROM olle-haf
to two-ttkrtls plowetl.
Tie Missouri reports show TINT nit Of thfr-
ty-tl,rce rcpHrts over two-tiiirtls ,e]mrt torn
damaged FROM 70 10 hU per cont. Tile winter
wlltAt condition IL ns follows: Out Ut twcn-
ty-tllrre reports over two-thIrt!s show &c-
crease In ncreaRc. T'tey rcport from tlis
State but very tittle progress with fall pIow
ing. The rains, however, 1T tho presulit week
will be uf incnlcutnhlo buuettt, sud, while the
seeusng vii! 'e much Inter tl,am ,ss"ul. wa
may oXneet to liar 0f Il decided clinngo for
tho better III this respect.
kaIlsaY has been more favored with rnits
since harvest than my other State In tho
wllcat-be't, and. while there lave been 10
general rnins, yet many counties have Ind
sufficient rnns to emblU fAll plowtI,g to yO
aheutl, mud setdlng Is now lit nct1vn progress.
Farmers, however, nre nut inclnedt with tho
experience ut tho lust two years, to incrensu
wheat Acrengo, pruferrlltg to rulsn luoro carl
and live stock n1d less winter grain. As
to tho c0ri crop In Klnsns,
out Of thirty-eigllt roparts Oil corn oniy QUO
Shows u crol' equal to lHs0, nild tlle majority
OF the reports all Indicate dn,u.ge frou,
arout1I30 to rs per cent. The repnrts as 10
fall seeding shuw gnna progress ,natH Will,
blowing. md that seeding Is wpll atong. AZ
to acreage there seems to l'o n worry lnrgu per-
Cc!ltnBe Of thu reports showing dvcrensu.
From Ohio md In.llann W. l,ave sixty
seven reports. Twenty-foMr report tlle caril
damaged FROM 70 su IL Ear ea.ss, a,sd t!,!ysy-
three lup0rt damage from 10 to 10 per Cent.
II Gun bu readlly scen Tint tho condition vi
the corn liz 10 bgttHr than lii tllB otlgr por'
tionS Ut tho cnrn belt. M to tho prDgrcsa ut
fall Seeding atltl tllH acruago Df wlHter wheat
VIC draw these conclusions froul I,early sixty
reports: Twelty-six report ground ton dry
far plnwirg, NH tho re.na!.tler III III! eos,,
d!l!ons of work from ,o,'c.l'nlt to nenrly nil
through. LII Other 'wnrils, u,,Gtl.nlf tile
groun4 had bcen plnwetl and the other hut
antlclpaee4 II cAanEe befare anything eoMiti
bo ttone, Asto tho acreage, out 1T thirty
eight reports u!Kllteen report nerenko t3u-
III Hn1n M nnT nil f+..