The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-11
WEEKLY CROP REVIEW
Reported to j. g. Gilmore from N K Fairbank &
CO. ChicagOl

Reported to j. 3. Gilmore from N. b. FarDank q
Co., Chicagol
Z General situation for the week ending
June 7th 1SS4-Early wheat just ready
to cut in southern Illinois, but too much
rain for harvesting-crop promises to be
q pool one in that area-good prospects
for spring wheat and oats-plenty of rain
now in Illinois and Iowa-eorn east of the
Mississippi river growing finely. West of
river late and backward
General conditions for the week end
ing June 9th 1888. The first
week of summer has openedk up,
every grain crop late and backward.
Corn not all planted. Oats and spring
wheat backward. We ought to be cut,
ting the early winter. wheat but it is now
only beginning to head. Winter wheat
prospects still continue to run down. The
week just closing has been to all intents
and purposes repetition of nearly every
previous week since the spring opened,
one or two growing days and then floods
of rain.
June eth 1884 The decided modera-
ton in the weather which was noted in
report for the week ending May 81, 1884,
has continued and the first week of June
sees normal degree of temperature all
over the northwest. With it has also come
copious rains east of the Mississippi
which. up TO Friday, were of marked
benefit to the growing crops in northern
and central Illinois and Iowa.
Southen Illinois, so far, has had
wet season and OF some points
correspondents report: Corn is not all
planted yet. The whole crop situation In
the northwest today is substantially this:
Small grain (spring wheat and OATS in
every respect first class; grass crop under
influence OF rains of the present week, has
improved fifty per cent; winter wheat
prospects not as good by one per cent as
seven days ago, and with every indication
that per eentage will be lowered still
further; stand of corn made seven DAYS
earlier than 1888
Central and Southern Illinols-Cairo
correspondents have just made special
survey of the situation and report as fol-
low; Our wheat crop is not going to be
as large as we had hoped Cheat north
of us and south some fly. lots of it too.
Thin on the ground although heading
very we'll. Weather is wet, very wet, and
alternating with hot sun, Some few
early pieces of wheat ready to cut but will
require few days of dry weather before
We can get into the fields" ....t
Tennessee and Correspon>
dent from Louisville says: Wheat pros
poets generally favorable; should say we
would make eighty five per cent of crop
of 1888 Wheat will nearly begin to
move before first week in July, although
some of the southern counties in the state
say last week of June. Rain is needed
but if it comes any time in next ten days,
will be plenty soon enough
+ Ohio and Indiana is very little
difference between our report and that of
the state agricultural report of Ohio with
regard to winter wheat, ours putting it a
little higher than the state report. Rain
is generally needed, but the wheat is not
suffering. The situation in Southern
Indiana is not quite as encouraging as
that of Ohio, as the crop seems more or
less spotted; correspondent from Evans
vile says: Wheat from this point to Terre
Haute Is not good; above Nlncennes and
up TO Terre Haute. bad. Old stocks of
wheat are pretty well cleaned up.
Michigan-So far Michigan has had to
contend with considerable dry weather,
and the frost of May goth left its mark
more pereeptibly on the winter wheat
crop in Michigan than in any other state,
and since the frost the weather has been
dry, and the crop is not looking as favor :
able as we should like to see it.
Missouri. development of chess
particularly in western Missouri during
the present week has been decidedly on
the increase, t-FHL
Kansas While Kansas still maintains
the highest average, yet the general pros
poets are not as good as week ago, from
causes similar to those reported 10 Illinois
and Missouri.
Movement of the new crop.-The gen
eral condition of the farmers in the winter
wheat belt is such that an early and free
movement of wheat may be- expected
particularly frcm southern Illinois, lndi-
ana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio ndMich-
ipan.