The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-30

Reported to j. 5 Gilmore fromN X Fairbank 4
Co, Cbicago

lkGpOfteu 10 IL , fillmore from n. h. FaITbauh K
Co., CbiCagol
General situation for the week ending
July 49, 1883. -Threshing of winter wheat
very backward and disappointing in
yield; movement OF the new corn crop
only nominal; oats yielding we'll every
where; grass not secured well; spring
wheat belt suffering from too much rain;
corn about holding its own; very little
in tassel or ear.
July %, 1SS4.-Winter wheat now all
in shock; very little threshing; spring
wheat and the oat harvest now upon is;
very poor week for the grass crop; only
about half secured; corn still maintains a
high average
The harvest OF the winter wheat has
ended with the present week; Michigan
closing up the missing link" in the win
Ter wheat belt; Southern Illinois, Missouri
and portions of Kansas have suffered
from considerable wet weather since har-
vest and threshing has been greatly inter
| tered with; up 10 the opening of the pres
| ent week not as much wheat as usual
| went into stack; was impressed with this
| fact as | passed through the wheat fields
| OF Indiana and Ohio the present week;
| hardly a wheat stack to be seen and all
| wheat in shock with steam threshers in
the fields.
The yields from threshing machines are
| yet very meagcr and do not run with any
| degree of evenness The Kentucky
wheat crop is good both in quantity and
quality. The early movement was large
but at present light Farmers have dis
charged their pressing debts. and wheat in
both Tennessee and Kentucky is now
going into stack From Southern Illinois
the movement has been so far light, the
same causes operating against the move
ment. The quality and general condition
of the crop is fine in this locality with
yield light. Large numbers of cars have
been going to Kansas City this week to
bring back wheat and farmers who are in
debt must and will sell early. In Ohio
and Indiana, Southern particularly, the
dry weather has put the wheat in excel
lent shape for threshing.
Spring wheat has the present week,
with the aid of most favorable weather,
with the exception of some local storms,
pushed Itself rapidly forward and the
harvest has begun in Nebraska, and some
wheat will be cut in Southern Dakota the
coming week
Oats Until within ten days the crop
gave promise of being immense. both foI
largely increased acreage and general crop
prospects. 1t may turn out so yet, but
MS in many of our best cat areas in Hi
nois and Iowa, the crop has headed out
short and with the trying weather OF the
last fourteen days, the yield may ne
somewhat reduced. In any event the
increased acreage ought to cover any
deficiency and unless disaster at harvest
another bountiful crop is now in the pro
cess of being secured.
Corn-The corn crop for fourteen days
has maintained very even average
ninetyone per cent-lowa, Wisconsin
Nebraska, Minnesota and Kansas main
tanning the highest averages. illinois and
! Ohio come next. Missouri, Indiana anC
Michigan next, and Kentucky and Ten
nessee the lowest. The dry weather il
Ohio and some portions of Indiana have
reduced the corn prospects, and corn has
not done well in Illinois for the last tel
days The present hoa weather ma.
make favorable change. The trouble
seems to be that the corn is very uneven