The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-22

PRIVATE CROP REPORT PoR THE WEEK
ENDING MAY %.
CHICAGO, May 2eth, 1888.
GENERAL CONDITIONS.
The month of May IS closing just
about as it opened. The same Geld
and backward weather, with unpre-
cedented storms of rain, wind and
snow the marked features of the
month. AS yet we have not enjoyed
a week of warm, growing weather
since the opening of spring.
As the season advances we have
almost a repetition of the spring OF
1881. South of the Ohio River the
greater portion of May has been cold
and dry. Rains have fallen recently
which have added greatly to the inn
provement of crops in that region.
From California, with abundant and
additional rains mp to date. (May ls),
the wheat outlook has improved, and
the majority of our correspondents
from that State seem to think they
will have from eight hundred thous-
and to one million tons for export.
The rainfall for the season in this
State overreaches 1882 by two in
ches, with corresponding benefits.
The Marklane Express of May 2Ist
says: eft is now certain that the
wheat crop will not amount to an
average yield"
CORN.
Up to this date there are no facts
connected with the growing crop of
1883 upon which we are able as yet
to make any definite statements as to
the outcome in the future.
We therefore prefer to state what
has been rather than what will be-.
III our Private Crop Report of May
10 we stated shat Nebraska and
Kansas Were about done with plant
| ing their corn" So far as the former
State is concerned this has proved TO
be OF little if any use. For the last
ten days the weather in Nebraska
has been unusually cold and wet; so
much 80 that the cases are exception,
al where replanting has not been gen
eral.' Various causes are assigned
tor poor stand of the first planting.
Kansas has her corn now all up, and
in many cases it has been worked
once. So far in the State OF Mis-
souri, we have many complaints of
poor stand of corn resulting from
imperfect seed, cold and wet weather.
AS soon as we cross the Mississippi
| River and get into Illinois and Iowa.
the two great cor" producing States
of the Union, the outlook is even
more discouraging. Southern Illinois
makes the hest show as to stand of
] corn. In Northern and Central Ill
inois very little corn, up to this date,
been planted, and at the very time
when the most of The corn onght to
have gone into the ground, every
thing was at s:andstili owing tc
cold and wet weather and the i'm
possibility of planting under these
conditions. Iowa was a little farther
advanced with her general work and
planting than Illinois; but as the
same bad weather prevailed in this
State as in Illinois nearly all the corn
which had been planted before the
18th inst. had to he rcplanted.
Ohio makes poor showing, and
Indiana a little better. It is very
plain to be seen from the above state
ment that the corn situation to-day
is substantially this: Poor seed, un-
usually cold, wet and backward
weather has proved very detrimental al
to the first planting, and that the
great bulk of the coin crop will not
be in the ground before the first of
June. Hence, we cannot speak def
nitely as to how good or how poor
the stand of corn for 1883 will be
much, if any, before the 10th of June
WINTER WHEAT.
May 10th we said: "The momen,
we go from one extreme of weather
| to another, that moment the cror
will fall below its present standard
Such is the case to-day, but more
particularly in Southern Illinois. Dur
ing the past few days we have re.
ceived the most discouraging reports
Of the condition ofwbeat Of the sea-