The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-17
WEEKLY CROP REVIEW

Reported to j. 5. Gilmore from n X Fairbank &
Co, Chicagol
General conditions for the week ending
September 18th, 1888. FIRST killing frost
Of the season. Severe drouth telling mas
terially on the corn crop east Of the Mis-
sissippi New corn offering at local
markets in Kansas. Flowing and seeding
Of winter wheat at standstill Spring
wheat threshing well along.
General situation for the week ending
September 18th, 1884 The last ten days
of unusually hot weather for this season
of the year has practically matured all the
early planted corn, though week more
without frost is needed for late planted.
Threshing has been delayed BY heavy
rains in Minnesota and Dakota. Very
little seeding of winter wheat so far. east
of the Mississippi, owing to dry weather.
The very favorable conditions that have
existed all over the northwest for the last
ten days have brought the corn crop fors
ward with such amazing rapidity that the
great bulk of the crop is now practically
safe from frost A. the same time, should
frost occur within the next ten days,
We should have more or less soft corn 10
move. The prospects now are that We
are about to handle a corn crop superior
in quality and quantity to any which
we have grown for the last six
years. The best corn and the largest
yield this season will again come from
the states west of the Mississippi, Iowa
excepted. The estimate of the crop, made
before husking has commenced. is thirs
teen hundred and sixty million bushels.
Estimate of the corn crop of 1888 was in
round numbers thirteen hundred million
bushels. After the corn crop has been
gathered, which, with favorable fall,
ought to be practically finished by the
first of December, shall revise and make
final estimate. Vast amounts of new corn
are now daily going into consumption for
hogs and cattle, but look for no new corn,
in any considerable quantity, on the mar
ket, before the first OF December.
Fort Scott, Kansas, Zone of the most
important points for shipping corn in the
state) says: We will not get in any new
corn until November as we have never
shipped any in October, and this year will
be no exception. At the same time We
anticipate very large corn trade with
Texas and may give them some new corn
in the ear of the new crop in October.
There is very little old corn in the hands
of farmers and very little corn in cribs al
stations in this section. We have twenty
thousand bushels to so forward by the
twentieth and may be able to pick up
that much more before the new corn
comes in. Correspondent adds upon an
other subject.
The acreage of winter wheat will be
very light.
Pleasanton, Kansas, (another very i'm
portant grain point) Correspondent says,
under date of Friday, Sept. 12.-Our best
information is that fully two thirds of the
corn is out Of the way of frost and the re.
mainder will be in ten to fourteen days
We have had fine rains in August which
makes the corn solid and the past two
weeks have been dry and hot which has
matured the corn very rapidly. At the
same time, corn is from two to three
weeks later with US than usual. 1t is moi
at all probable that our corn will grade
number two in Chicago before December
1t will be seen that yesr ago at this date
new corn was being offered at local mar
kets in Kansas. At this time there is nc
new corn today which any interior grair
buyer would touch.
Winter wheat prospects are now, tha
seeding will be much earlier than in the
fall of 1888. Kansas and Missouri arr
well along with blowing, and seeding ha
already begun. Very little wheat yet
however, has been sown in Southern Hi
nois, Indiana or Ohio. The fact becomes
more and more apparent that the acreage
of winter wheat will show decided
decrease as compared with the acreage o
1888.
Spring wheat.-The heavy rains il
Northern Minnesota and Dakota hav
stopped threshing and farmers have beef
busy fall-plowing. The damage to whea
in stack has not yet become general, blu
reports are numerous that with continued
rains the grade of wheat would be low
cred.