Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-24
A General Report.
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The following crop summary has been
prepared "The great fear of drought
which has threatened the spring wheat
sections, still continues and has become
serious menace to the growing grains.
Dry, hot, winds have prevailed in Dakota
and Minnesota, adding to the serious out
look in many portions of that state and
territory. The effects of the drought
have begun to be seriously felt in Wis
cOnsin, Iowa, and Nebraska, and very few
of the reports received down to Satur-
day night but dwell upon this fact. Many
fields Of oats are reported turning yell
low, and injury to that cereal threatens
now to be more severe than even to
wheat itself. The rains which have pre-
vailed in the sections named have all
been of a local character, and which
saving many fields from ruin, have not
given the relief which, according to nine
tenths of the reports from correspond
ents, would appear to be eminently need
ed.
The reports from Faribault, Goodhue,
Meeker, and Mower counties, in Mime
sofa, all indicate serious need of rain
The present prospect in Meeker county
is for not to exceed One-ha1f of All aver
age crop. In Dunn, Barrow, Monroe,
and Sank counties, in Wisconsin, the
fields are dry and parched, and all grains
are looking badly. The reports from
Iowa, particularly from Adair, Cherokee,
Mahaska, Pottawattamie, Winneshiek
and Norman, indicate that many of the
advanced fields of grain already show
signs of turning yellow, and are badly in
need of moisture. In Otoe and Platt
counties in Nebraska, the wheat crop
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while reports of serious draught come
from Douglas, Hamilton aud Webster
counties. Good rains would insure full
average yield in the larger portion of the
entire spring wheat belt, but without
them the continuance of the present hot
and dry weather would undoubtedly
prove fatal to the entire outlook.
The reports Of damage from insects
continue to come from portions of Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, aud Michi-
gan, but none indicate that any general
injury is to result either to the spring or
winter wheat crops, and that it is to be
confined, in the main, to isolated localities.
The section most seriously threatened is
southern Illinois, where the early pros
poets of large crop have been lessened
very considerably from the ravages of the
culncn-DuSS. OEdSSHopPeIS are IepOIleu
in large numbers in Hamilton county, In
diana; Fayette and Logan counties Ohio,
and in Wapello county, Iowa.
The reports from Indiana indicate that
the yield of winter wheat will fall slightly
below the average. In some of the count
les wheat has gone back the last three or
four weeks. In Gibson county the fields
do not promise by five bushels as much
as they did one month ago, owing to dry
weather and rust. In La Grange wheat
that promised twenty bushels to
the acre will not produce to exceed five.
The general prospects in Ohio continue
good and the state has the promise of
good average yield. In Kansas and Michi
gan the prospects has not changed. The
official report indicating than Kansas will
not produce an eleven million bushel
yield only confirms the reports of the
wide spread injury inflicted on the crops
early in the season.
Harvesting is progressing in Missouri,
Kentucky and Tennessee, and the general
tenor of the reports continues very favor
able.