The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-07-13
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rus following Is taken from the Chicago
Corn ia a very poor crop thls year wheat =
better than last year, but not up 70 thc eIpp gu
1850 and s oSs p2.aof ,so e spsfast summary nT
of the crop reports published this morning ny
the Times from u large number oil p nus scat
tered all over the northWosieIn Nhbs. slN
weeks ago when the Times published It's last
general crop reports fair weather was Just be'
Ginning to set IN after q most disoouragingly
wet and cold spring, and farmers were tempted
to make the most OF improved p,oSPVg sid ~
changed for the better ana remained So weulu
be from Oue-tfth TO One-iourth better than u
was last year, when II was none 100 gOoa,
being only four-hiths as large as II was IN
each of the two preceding years. But the
promises OF the weather were not kept and the
dispatches now presented show That corn VIII
not be nm average crop anywhere and in Consld-
cradle districts the farmers do not now expect
TO get more than half of an average croh
though warm weather even ut this late any
would materially reduce the loss In the south
ern part of the corn and wheat. belt the loss Is
less severe than in the northern part ana IN the
latter the corn is doing toleraby well on upl
lands, or where the grounds happens TO be gel
drained. In rev locaiites me reports aSo ore
lions The corn crop of the United States in 1850
was 1857 535, $40 bushels, which was slight re
due9n from The crop of as o P5eSSoSSS year
duction of one, fourth-and the dispatches
indicate that it may, l be as serious aboTs
SO bad as that In all localities the corn
is very backward, but in MANY OF them u is
promising fairly after all, and with fine weather
will not show great reouGuon from iast year,
large reduction from those of the two previous
years and 1t is certain that this year crop VIII
not come up to that of last year. The wheat
prospects are much more encouraging; though
they are not all that was hoped for early In the
season There has been considerable reduc-
tiOn in the acreage of wheat i'll Iowa, Wisconsin,
and in some parts of Minnesota, but in other
parts of the last state and in Dakota and Ne
braska there have been large additions 70 tne
area, and the same Is true OF some othcr iocall-
les. In Iowa and wisconsin what wheat there
is. is promising well. In Wisconsin the crop
viii be larger than it was last year. but in Iowa
il will not be 50 large-the gain in one state be-
ing about an Offset TO the loss in the 9TH
err Last year the wheat crop OF Iowa was over
IS 600 $50 bushels, or about half what IT was i'll
1850 this year it will probably be somewhat less
! than last year. In Wisconsin the wheat crop
was nearly lSoOOJ 100 last year, small gain no oyer
| 1880 and this year It may go up above 20 oOOO,
bushels. In Illinois the wheat crop last year
was 26 so, 900 bushels, or barely one:h what
it was the year before; this year the indications
are that the crop will exceed that of last year,
and may amount to 30,OO0,00O, but good deal
depends on the luck the farmers have IN
harvesting for the wetness of the ground de-
laws the work and compels the cradle to be
used instead of the machine in many cases. Ne
braska last year produced a little less than H.
600 OiO bushels OF wheat and this year promises
to 90 two or three millions above that, the acre
are has increased, and the grain is looking
we'll. The finest reports of wheat come
from Michigan. The crop in that state two years
ago was over 30 0t000 bushels, and last year 1t
was only a little over 21.0OO,OOO bushels; this
wear the crop promises to be nearly or quite
equal to that of 1880. In Indiana the crop two
years ago was over IS. 0O0 coo and lastyear about
81 500 600 bushels; this year it will exceed the
crop of last year, and may reach nearly to the
figures of two years ago. In Missouri corn is in
fair condition aud viii probably yield about
what II =. Is, year. it may yield more. The
~. q. very promising. The crop last year.
zoos lUOI bushels was about two-thirds OF the
crop of two years ago, and the crop this
wear may attain the dimensions Of that OF
isS9. In Minnesota the crop last year
was larger than that of two years ago; this
wear the crop will probably not vary. greatly
from the So, O00t 90 bushels produced in 1851.
Corn in Illinois last year was not much more
than half the crop Of 1879, and this year it is
almost certain to be much below what II was
last year The same is true of corn in Iowa.
Even in Indiana, where the bad weather has
had the least effect the crop will not be quite SO
large as it was last year. In all these states the
rye oats potatoes and hay are, with very rare
exceptions in various localities, uncommonly
promising In most places these crops will be
larger than ever before. In Kansas the wheat
harvest is nearly over, and the crop is estimated
at 30 600 900 bushels, or more than 90 per cent in
excess of the crops of the last two years.