The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-24
CROP REPORTS
From Various States and
Iowa.
The Frost has done no Great
Damage.
Honest. Republicans Found.
They are determined to make
a Fight in Penn.
Foreign News much the same.
Sporting and Criminal Items,
Various Mention.
THE CROPS.
IOWA

DEs MONIES COUNTY May % Crop
reports received to-day by Northwestern
Associated Press: Audubon county fruit
greatly injured by recent frosts. Small
GRAIN prospects excellent, corn back
Benton county wheat is in good shape.
corn. oats and fruit more or less hurt by
cold. Blackhawk county-late fruits hurt
BY heavy frosts; considerable corn will
have to be replanted. Boone county crops
not much hurt by the late cold; nice pros
poets for small grain. Buchanan county
small grain good; corn two inches high;
fruit not hurt. Buena Vista county
small grain doing well; corn back; fruit
not much hurt. Butler county-small
grain good; corn back; small fruits badly
hurt by frost. Calhoun county-little
wheat raised; oats good; to early to report
on grain. Carroll ceunty-grain good;
corn late, but doing well; fruits much hurt
Cass county--small fruits much hurt;
small grain looks fine; corn slow about
coming, unless nice weather
comes soon a great deal will rot.
Cedar, no Spring wheat. Oats looking
fair; corn back and amt hurt by frost,
scarcely a crop, Cherokee corn back, other
grains splendid; frost killed all the fruit.
Cinton-corn comingup we'll; oates good,
little wheat raised Crawford-wheat fine,
corn and oats little back, fruits not hurt.
Delaware,-oats good, corn rotting in the
ground fruit badly hurt by frssts. Des
Moines-wheat much raised oats and rye
1eok well; corn doing no good, much of
it viii have to be replanted; fruit somewhat
damaged by recent frosts. Dubuque
wheat fair, oats good. corn back, fruits
badly nipped, green fruit used up by frost;
corn back, and not all planted,
wheat, oats making good gowest.
Guthrie-heavy frost; little hurt to
fruit and crops. Hamilton county
Small grain splendid, corn not up small
fruit half crop; heavy frost last night;
vegetables badly hurt Hardin county
Small grain never better; corn nearly all
planted; fruit about killed by the late
frosts. Harrison county-Small grain very
good; corn just coming up; neavy frosts,
but fruit not much hurt. Iowa county
Small grain look WE'LL corn about al
planted, and coming up well; fruit not
much hurt. Jasper county-Frost the pas
two nights killed early fruits and vegetable:
and damaged the rye; fair prospect fo
wheat and oats; about four inches of SNOW
fell at Colfax last night. johnson count!
Wheat fair; bad prospect for corn;
failure on low grounds, and some replanted
rye promising; small fruit badly damages
by frost; apples not hurt. Jones count
Small grain looks well; corn not owe
. half planted; fruit not injured by frost
Lee county-Small grain fair; corn hardl
up; small fruits slightly damaged. Lin
county--Corn and oats both poor, owing t
cold weather; all kinds of fruit damaged
Madison county-No damage reported t.
fruit or crops by recent frostS
Marion county = Frequent frosts, an
heavy fall of snow last nigf
injured fruits and crops badly; farmers ar
discouraged; about two inches of snow fe
at Pella last night. Menona county
small grain doing well; corn about a
planted, but little fruit in the count.
Marshall county-decreased acreage lool
ing well; oats good; corn about two-thirc
planted; fruits and tender plants all cut
frosts. Monroe county-snow fell fl
several hours last night at Abba, and NJ
more than an inch melted; farmers thir
no damage was done to grain or fruit
Muscatine county about two inches
snow fell last night ground yet covert
ing. Pottawatamie county-best sma
grain prospects for years; corn all up al
good stand; no damage to fruit. Powi
schiek county-full grain; good prospec
fruit injured considerably. Sac county
small grain good; little corn up, some n
planted; early fruit hurt by late frost
Scott county-wheat and oats splendi
barley thin; corn mostly planted; ear
fruit somewhat hurt by FROST winter whe
IN fine condition; light snow last nigf
Shelby county-Wheat and corn nev
looked better; fruits all destroyed by !
cent frosts. Storey county-Wheat goo
oats greatly injured by cold weaths
large acreage of corn and potatoes plante
fruit crop greatly, if not entirely, injur
by frost; early sown flax greatly hurt
frost and early vegetables killed To-
county Small grain looking well; &C
mostly planted; fax hurt by frost;
fruits supposed to have been killed
frosts of last two nights. Webster cour
Small grain doing well; corn backwal
fruits all destroyed by frost. Woodbu
county-Wheat never better; oats 10
we'll; corn two thirds planted; heavy fir
and tnin ice last night; fruit crop hu
Wappello county--Half an inch of sn'
last night; heavy frost two nights
hurt thus far observable; sweet potatt
and other tender plants hurt in so