Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-13
CORN In GOOD SHAPE.
THE CROP PAST ANY SERIOUS DANGER
PROM FROST
The General Averages Remain The Ssme-The
Average for the Potato Crop Will be About Half
the Usual Yisld-Hogs Mys.snOusly
Dying in Missouri County.

CHICAGO, September l2.-The following
crop summary will appear in this weeks
issue OF the Farmers Rerielr: The corn
crop had week of hot and erowding
weather and the majority of the reports
received at the close of the present week
indicate that the crop is past any
serious danger Of frost, and in Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin the
grain is already sufficiently matured to
resist any injury from light frosts - p
The general averages indicated by the
reports during the past four weeks have
not changed in any particular degree. In
u general way the prospects are still very
good for full average yield in Ohio, Mich
igan, Indiana and Minnesota. The aver
age prospective yield is lowest in Illinois,
Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa, and ranges
low in Kansas and Nebraska. The aver
ages given, last week, are varied from only
slightly. The average for Illinois,
two of the principal corn
growing counties is between 62 and 65 per
cent, and five oi the counties report that
the crop is out of all danger from frost.
The most encouraging reports from Illinois
come from Lee, Ford and Morgan counties
and are the only ones reporting prospect
of full average yield. The average is
the lowest in Edwards and Mercer coun-
ties. In twenty counties Of Iowa, the
general average ranges from 80 to 63 per
cent. In Cass and Carroll counties the re-
ports show the crop to give a full aver
age yield. In Madison, Decatur, Marion,
and Appanoosa counties the average falls
from 2Oa35 per cent Of an average yield.
The telegraphed average Of 6l per cent.
sent last week should have been applied to
Iowa instead of Ohio. In Kansas, the
lowest average reported is p per cent. and
the highest 100. The average for for the
State ranges from 6Ga73 per cent I'm
Missouri, the average for the fifteen scat
tered counties falls below 80 per cent, with
q general average of - per cent. In Wis
cOnSin, some of the counties indicate very
low average. In Grant, FOn Du Lac and
Sheboygan counties the yield is placed at
10 to L. bushels IN acre. The average for
the State runs worry low. Fully One-half
of the counties of Minnesota predict full
average yield. In PipeSton county the
yield promises to be the largest ever raised
in that county. In Michigan the yield
will be nearly full average, and in In
diana will probably exceed the yield of n
year ago. In Nebraska the yield will be
fully IS per cent. of an average yield
The reports continue Ia indicate that
early planted potatoes promise fair yield,
while nearly all late planted potatoes are
very poor, indicating generally less than
0ne-fOurth the usual yield. The average
for total crop will exceed very little more
than ome-hali the usual yield.
The late rains have improved the pas
lures somewhat in Iowa and Illinois, where
the grass in many sections is reported
short, but green. I'm other sections pas
lures are reported dry and short and cattle
lean. In many portions OF Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas corn is
being cut in large quantities for fodder.
Hogs are reported light, but generally
healthy Hog cholera is reported in Jasper
county, Illinois. and in Usage county,
Missouri, the hogs are dying from an
unknown disease.