Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-14
BLESSED RAIN
Is All That Is Needed to Dria1 Us
Good Crops.
BUT THE q. 4. HASN'T SHOWN UPYer
And the Fields In Many Sections are Turn.
ing yelIow-A Summary Of
the Crop Prospects.

CHICAGO. ILLs., June ls.-Ths following
crop summary will appear in this weeks
Farmers Review: The great drouih
which has been threatening the spring
wheat sectiona still continues and has be-
become in some respects serious menace
TO the growing grain. Dry, hot winds have
prevailed in Dakota and Minnesota adding
to the serious outlook in many portions Of
that State and Territory. The effects Of
the drouth have begSuAo Be seriously teis
in Wisconsin. Iowa and Nsssssks. end
very few Of the reports received down to
Saturday night, do not dwell upon this
subject.
Many fields Of oats are reported turning
yellow, and injury to that cereal threatens
now to be more severe than even to wheat
The rains which have prevailed in the sec
tons named, while saving many fields
from ruin, have not given the relief which.
according to nine-tenths Of the reports
from correspondents. would appear to b
imminontly needed. The reports from
Fair, Rault, Goodhue and Mowre counties,
in Minnesota. all indicate serious need OF
rain. The presep, prospect in Meeker
county is for not 10 exceed one half Of IN
average crop. In Dunn, Barrow. Monroe
and Sauk counties. in Wisconsin, the fields
are dry and parched, and oil grsiss
are looking badly. The re-
ports from Iowa particularly from
Adsir, Cherokee, Mshaska. Pootawam:e,
Winnesheik and Norman indicate that
many of the advanced felds Of grain show
signs OF turning yellow, and are badly in
need Of rain. In Otoe and PAii counties.
in Nebraska, the wheat crop will bs % per
cent. below the average. while reports OF
serious droI,h come from douglass, HIATT
aud Webster counties. Good rains will
make the average yield in the larger por>
ton OF the entire spring wheat belt, but
without them. the continuance Of The pres
ent hot ard dry weather woeA andoubted-
ly prove fatal to the outlook for the entire
crop as the situation has already become
critical.
Reports Of
DAMAGE IRON NsEcrs
continue 10 come from portioss Of lows,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas and Michi-
gan, but none indicate that any general in.
jury is TO result either TO the winter or TO
the spring wheat crop, and that it 10 10 be
confined in the main TO isolated localities.
The section most seriously threatened 10
Southern Illinois, where the prospect Of .
large crop has been lessened very consid-
erably from the rsvagss OF tho
chipch bugs. Grasshoppss are reported
in large numbers in Hamilton county,
Iowa, Fayet.o and Logan counties. Ohio.
and IL Wspello county, Iowa. The report
from Indiana indicate that tho area OF
winter wheat will fall slightly below tho
average. In come Of the counties tho
wheat has gono back during the pas, three
or four weeks. In Gibson comfy tho
fields do not promise m much ~ ono
month ago, owing TO dry weather and rust.
Ia Lagrange county wheat that promised
twenty bushels TO The acre will
no, produce 10 exceed FIVE. The general
prospects In Ohio continue good and tho
State has the promise Of q full average
yield. In Kansas and Michigan the pros
pect has no, changed, the official reports
indicating that Kansas will not produce TO
exceed nm 1000 900 bushel yield only
confirms the reports o' the widespread in
jury inflicted on the crops early in Tho
season. Harvesting is progressing i'm
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee aud
the general tenor Of the reports continues
very favorable.