The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-13
ArkansQs Crops.
From Tho Arkansas Gazette. l

SHOWS SOuit to b' hc'i iou"'S", while others come from persons prcdisposed to look only upon the sombre gloom there is in lite how ever brightly the sun may be shin. Ing. The crops are undoubtedly needing rain now, but for one 10 predict approaching tamine and disaster now is untimely and nn- warranted.
 Crawford County Argus, July %: The farmers of Crawford coun- ty assuredly have no reason to wear long faces however it may be with their less favored brethren in other districts. The wheat crop, which many at first thought would be a failure, is tuning out very well, while the yield of corn and cotton promises to be the largest in many years.
 Sevier County Chronicle, July 30: Good rain this week. Judge Coulter, a farmer for fifty years, informs, the Chronicle Chat if we live fifty years we willin all proba- bility never see better prospects for good crops than VIC now have;
  that corn, where it has been halt worked, was never better, and that cotton is just splendid.
 Howard and Pike Counties News, I; A glorious rain, extend ing over this and part of Pike county, fell last Wednesday. It was timely. as cotton on the ridge was beginning 10 suffer. We now enter August with the brightest cotton prospect for years, The corn crop is made and it is simply immense.
 Arkansas County-Gazctte, Ju- ly go: The weather has been ex- tr-lnely hot the past week, and some of our farmer friends are complaining. Some few in the country are suffering for rain, and if they fail to get 1t in few days their crops will be cut pretty short. Scott County-Reporter, July 3l: The crop prospect continues good, although on high land late corn is suffering some for rain. For the past two weeks the weather has been unusually hot and dry, just the kind of weather to ma ke cotton dump" itself.
 Pope County-Democrat, July 20: The reports that reach Us from the crops indicate that in various sections of the country corn is suf- fering seriously, and in some DOT tions cotton is beginning to suffer also. The drouth is beginning to have telling effect,
 Johnson County-EcOnomist, July 3l' Ram is beginning to be badly needed in many localities. and should the excessive hot dry weather continue, the hither flat tering prospects for an abundant corn and cotton crop will be con siderably blighted.
 Woodruff County--Nidette, July 90: With the exception of nar- row strip across the southern DOT. ton, our county was visited with more or less rain last week and the crops, with the exception of late corn, are doing as well as could be asked.
 Phillips County-World, 4: The condition of the cotton and corr crops on the Old Town and Helena wagon road veriles the assertion SC frequently made in regard to the prospective yield being larger than has been known here in the las, decade.
 White County-Bebc Times Without doubt the corn crop il White county will be larger this rear than for many years previous The acreage is greater than ever before, and the yield per acre vii be much larger than for many years.
 ouachita CoamtS Beacon, l We jussssop long enough to say under tf6 head of crops, that | good corn crop in this section il already assured The cotton k doin9as well as could bo wis he'd and all is lovely in this direction
 Desha County-Journal 1: 4 nice rain fell in portions of thi county on last Saturday, whicl has materially helped the crops. 4 few more such showers in seasol