St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-14
THE CROP REVIEW.
HOW Hay and the Various Cereals
Have Been Affected by the Dry
Weather.

HOW Hay and the Various Cereals
Have Been Affected by the Dry
Weather.
CHICAGO, Aug. 15.-The quality of the
nay this season Is unsurpassed, owing to the
low condition to-day in which pastures and
meadows are, from Wisconsin to Kansas.
Kansas to Nebraska, and Nebraska to the
Ohio river. The great majority of farmers
are obliged to feed new hay, and have been
Tor more than twenty days. Probably
never IN the history of this country have
pastures and meadows suffered from
drouth as they have since July4. In fact.
tney nave made no growth since grass was
cut, and are practically as destitute of feed
as III MD winter. hence it will require an
unusual amount of rain to start
them up and put them in condition
Tor fall feed. 1t is a very difficult
problem to solve, whether pastures are
ruined Tor the season, or whether they can
be brought to a nominal state again by
copious rains. Time alone can develop the
real fact in the case. The report also
shows that the Oat crop is generally good.
but was reduced somewhat in yield by dry
weather, but like grass, was secured eyery-
where III excellent condition. The oat
crop, owing to the corn and pasturage sit,-
alton, has not, and will not move yery
freely under existing circumstances. The
report also brings out the fact that the
winter wheat crop in quality is excellent.
threShlhg out little better than expected
before harvest, that the movement from
threshlng machines never was large as il
has been during the past forty
days, and much larger percentage
OF the crops than usual will have been
marketed before the opening of 1887. The
Times Tomorrow will publish very full
report OF the corn situation covering the
states OF Illinois, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri.
Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan. Wis
cOnSln, Minnesota, Dakota, Tennessee and
Kentucky. These reports bring out these
facts: That up to the 4th day of july the
general corn prospects of the country east
OF the Missouri were exceptionally good.
West OF the river the corn situation COM
prlslng the states of Kansas and Nebraska
had been reduced more or less bv dry
weather.. The corn season so far has been
very peculiar one starting out as it did.
under the most favorable circumstances
the month of June dry and cool with lust
enough moisture to keep the corn growing
and put the fields in condition for unipter-
rupted cultivation until the first of july. but
ever since that date the corn crop
has been subjected with the exception
of some limited areas in Ohio and Indiana.
to such extremes of dry weather and heat
that the general prospects to-day point to
a crop reduced in quantity and quality.
Rain during the last ten days has been copi-
Gus in Kansas and Nebraska, and further
reduction to the crop from drouth has been
stopped. but the season is now so far adj
vanced that no amount of rain can bring
the corn crop up to the condition of July /,
1886, and frost before the second week in
September would cause more than usual
destruction to the crop. Intimately con-
nected with the corn crop is the grass crop,
and the Times reports show that the crop
was fair one in many localities, but as a
whole little below the yield of the grasscrop
of 1885. Grass was secured in exceptionally
fine condition. Over vast areas not drop
of rain fell upon it from the date of cutting
until it was safe either in the bunch OF
stack.