The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-10
WEEKLY CROP REVIEW
REPORTED to j. s. Gilmore from n X Fairbank
Co., Chcagol

Co., Chicagol
General condition for the week ending
September Sth, 1SS3-Very dry week.
First frost of the season. Corn maturing
very slowly; needs fourteen days more of
early corn; late twenty to thirty days
Ground for winter wheat largely plOwed.
Waiting now for rain to commence seed>
ing. Largest proportion of the winter
wheat now threshed.
September 6, 1884 The past seven
days have been the best week of the whole
growing season on the corn crop; matur-
ing rapidly; with no break in the weather
fourteen days more will let us out of the
woods. Ground in good condition for
| fall seeding west of the Missouri: some
wheat already sown and up. Spring wheat
harvest ended. Deliveries of oats at in>
terror points falling off very rapidly.
The week now closing has been salts
factory in every respect for the maturing
of the corn crop. The very low temper>
AZURE with which August closed has been
followed the present week with a decided
continued higher range The spring
wheat harvest all over. but so far stacking
and threshing in Northern Minnesota and
Dakota is not as yet finished Fair re-
ceipts of wheat are still expected in that
region. This side of the Mississippi river
very little ground yet prepared for wheat
On the other side of the river, general
conditions for fab seeding much more
favorable In areas where corn is scarce
there has been free movement of oats
the present week. This, however, has
now fallen off and very little of any kind
of grain is now seeking the market at in>
terror points.
Corn, average condition--eighty eight
per cent. The general conditions of the
corn now are such that we have every
promise that we are gliding safely by the
| fatal days of September, 1888. which
ruined vast areas of the corn crop and
gave us such miserable crop in quantity
and quality as the corn crop of 1888 has
proved to be. We have had just the kind
of weather we needed-hot dry and fore
ing and no frost. By reference to the
general conditions in 1882 and 1888 it
will be seen that the corn crop is still late
| and that while of course there are limited
areas here and there scattered over the
corn belt which would not be ruined by
frost, but at the same time the fact is still
| apparent that to give us sound crop of
corn to handle the coming season, four,
teen days are needed yet. Found by per,
sonal examination the present week of a
very large tract of corn in this vicinity,
which contains over thirty thousand acres
all in one body, and has been under very
favorable conditions so far as drainage
and cultivation consists, the present sea-
son is probably as forward as
any corn today in Northern Illinois.
Walking into field distance of thirty
rods, picked one ear of corn, continued
down the row and picked very tenth ear
with the following result: One third of
the corn would not be injured by frost
| today; one third would be soft corn, one
third ruined. In other words thirtythree
per cent today of the corn in Northern
| Illinois and Iowa is safe, another third
will be safe the coming week. and the
whole crop solid by the twentieth. Have
no fear of the corn of Kansas'or Missouri
| The same conditions which exist in Hi.
nois and Iowa are applicable to Nebrass
ka; an investigation of this crop is now
being made. 1t is wonderful to observe
the daily change Cor the better which the
present weather is doing for the corn
The late rains in Ohio, Indiana and
Southern Illinois came to late to be of any
practical value for the improvement of
the corn crop. Farmers now east of the
Mississippi river are cutting up the new
corn, stalk and all, and feeding it to their
hogs and cattle. From what We can res
member, do not think we ever CONS
menced to feed the new crep SO early in
the season of the year as is being done
today.