The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-30
THE CROPS.
What Farmers Say OF This Sea
cons Prospects.

What Farmers Say OF This Sea
cons Prospects.
A BAzoo sc-ibe after interviewing s
large numb-r Of farmers IS able 10 furnish
the following summary In brief as the re-
suit OF his investigations, as to the c,ndi-
ton aud pro-pect of crops in the ne ghbor-
hood o. Sed liza.
GEoI GETowN.
Wheat small sre {, DANG d BY co d and
recent storms. not over half crop. Corn
planted late hurt by cold aud wet, very
weedy, prospects bad. Fruits, cherr es lew,
peaches none, plums roor, apples plenty.
Vermln, cut worms very bad.
LAMoNTE.
Whest hurt by cold and storms, crop not
over half and damaged. Corn poor, stand.
very weedy and bac Sward, prospects poor,
small, fruits plenty vegetables promising,
peaches none, cherri.s and plums half a
crop, apples fair cop, grubs aud cut worms
very bad.
sMITHToN.
All crops bodIy damaged by storms.
Corn poor, backward and weedy, wheat not
over half crop. No peaches, some cher
rirs and plums, spples promising. Small
fruits good except olackberri, cut worms
bad, some he sian flies and chinch bugs.
GREENRIDGE.
Wheat, about three guar ers of cr,p.
not much damaged from rains. Corn gooJ,
but very weedy. Fruits, fair yield, except
peaches, Of which there will be few. Gar
den products excellent auu cut worms bad.
a lew web worms in corn aud Hessian flies
in wheat.
WARSAW.
Wheat, not an average crop and some
what hurt by INST. Corn doing well but
late except in bottom lands where much is
dsmsged by water. Cut worms very bad
Oats injured by wet weather.
COLE CAMP.
Wheat poor, corn good, but weedy. Oats
not more than quarter of a crop. Grass
abundant. Fruit mostly killed, a few
cherries and half crop of apples.
VERSAILLES.
Wheat, not over half crop. Corn late
but fine, though very weedy and troubled
with cut worms. Fruit, a few peaches,
some cherries and apples plenty. Small
fruit abundant.
Upton.
Corn late and very weedy. Wheat very
poor. Oats injured by rain. Fruit, fan
crop except peaches. Cut worms bad.
PILOT GROVE.
Whest not over half crop if that. Oats |
air. Corn good but weedy. Too much |
ain. Other crops looking well. Apples |
plenty, cherries scarce, peaches none. Cut
worms bad in places.
Crop Report.
Rochester, n. Y. June 25.-Special crop
eports from Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa,
Nebraska, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illi-
lois, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky and
Tennessee 10 the American R.ral Home, of
his city, gathered by correspondents in
very county show that the very best wheat
Producing areas do not promise more than
read and seed in winter wheat. The first
weniy-oue days of June were exceedingly
rylng and areas that were thought good
Or half crop are now turning out largely
heats.
All estimates of the spring wheat yield
t present are idle conjectures. The most
Conservative estimates point to 10 per cent.
as compared with 1884.
Corn is doing fairly. In no state, how
yer, are the prospects above the average.
Test of the Missouri the whole season has
cen wet; east of the Missouri cold and
~.
The oat crop is much larger than that of
8S4, because large amounts of wheat lands
ere put into oats. On the whole the sea-
On is an average one.