The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-15
CONDITION OF CROPS.
Reported from N. K Fairbanks & Co Chicago
byJ ). Gilmore.


General situation for the week ending
may 10th. 1884. Three days of cool but
dry weather gives uninterrupted work in
corn belt east of Mississippi. No stand
made IN Kansas yet. Planting in Neb
raska late, Spring wheat will not all be
seeding before the fifteenth inst, Dat
acreage immensei Splendid stand. Grow
ing finely. Plenty of grass now fer cattle.
May 18th 1883 Cool and backward
weather continues Winter wheat not
holding its own. Spring wheat making IA
good stand Oats improving, Corn land
nearly all plowed and farmers ready to
plant. First planting not coming well in
Illinois or Iowa. Similar complaints from
Missouri. Nebraska seed corn not max
ing good stand. Corn situation generally
late and backward.
General conditions for the week end
ing May 10th, 1884 On Monday morn
ing may fifth fully one third of the land
in Illinois and Iowa was all ready for
planting corn but owing to heavy rains
then and which continued with more or
less severity until Wednesday nothing was
done up TO that time. Out of six work
ing days we have had two excellent days
for planting corn. All the favorable con
dltions which have existed in the states
OF Illinois and Iowa up to the present
time still continue, as Illinois and Iowa
have practically no corn at present we
deem it very important that we report
as fully as possible every condition regard
ing this crop the coming season. Note
have on the opening of the corn season
in Illinois seven hundred and fifty eight
regular correspondents and in the state
of Iowa five hundred and sixty three.
There is no use of Disgusting the fact that
while we all think we have good seed corn
yet the feeling with regard to it is one of
great doubt Reports come to us which
are of course impossible to tabulate and
go to show that where farmers intended
to have planted forty or fifty acres of corn
have cut this acreage down twenty per
cent and put the land into oats.
Illinois and Iowa farmers this season
have commenced planting their corn the
seventh and eight of May while at this
time IN 1888 they were blowing. The
most favorable outlook today fol getting
in the corn in good season is in northern
and central Illinois and Iowa. In south
ern Illinois the weather has been and is
still wet and planting decidedly late
1t is very safe to say that if we have no
storms of rain during the next week that
We shall see the great bulk of the entire
corn crop planted. Kansas and Missouri
at this time ought to be Cultivating their
corn but neither of these states are yet
able to give any satisfactory report with
regard to their stand of corn. In Nebraska
the season so far has continued unusually
cold wet and backward and more uneasi>
ness seems to be felt with regard to the
stand of corn in that state than in any
other in the corn belt. At the best their
seed corn is poor and they have depended
entirely on their own resources for seed.
1t will take us two good season al least
before we can fully recover from the eff
fects of the poor, miserable quantity Of
the corn crop which was grown in 1888.
| While Minnesota does not belong to the
corn belt yet, up to the present time
she has been each year increasing her area
of corn but the failures of the crop in 1888
and the great scarity of seed this season
is making this state turn her attention
very largely to oats and barley in its place
Ohio and Indiana are getting good seed,
Cold, wet weather in Tennessee and Ken
lucky have not up to this date produced
a good stand of corn.
| Winter wheat A late harvest of win
ter wheat in Tennessee and Kentucky.
reserves in many places reduced to such a
low point that there is not enough on
hand to meet local demand until harvest.
The dry weather in Indiana and Ohio for
two weeks made winter wheat look poor
but the wet and warm weather of the last
last week has revived the crop very
much OF course Michigan is the last
state to get into line and wheat is now
generally as forward as q year ago. The
condition in Illinois is about stand off
as Missouri has held her own.
Spring wheat. The early sown wheat
in Minnesota is about three fourths up.
The ground at present is very wet and the
finishing of the seeding is delayed Every
thing however, in Minnesota and Dakota
indicates an excellent send off for the
spring wheat crop. The outlook in Neb
raska for spring wheat is also good fol-
while the cOnditions-which have operated
against corn have been extremely favor
able for spring wheats oats and barley.