The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-16
NORTHWESTERN CROPS.
Effects of the Drouth Seriously Felt, and
Much Damage Reported.

CHICAGO, June 13.-The following crop
summary Will appear in this weeks Farmers
Review: The great fear of drouth, which has
been threatening the spring wheat sections
still continues, and has become in some re-
speets a serious menace to the growing grain.
Dry hot winds have prevailed in Dakota and
Minnesota, adding to the already serious out
look in many portions of that State and Ter
ritory.
The effects of the drouth have begun to be
seriously felt in Wisconsin, Iowa and Ne
braska and very few Of the reports received
down to Saturday night dwell upon much
but this subject. Many fields of oats are re-
ported turning yellow, and the injury to that
cereal threatens to be more serious than TO
wheat. The rains which have prevailed in
the sections named, while saving many fields
from ruin, have not given the relief which,
according to ninetenths of the reports from
correspondents, would appear to be immi-
nently needed, The reports from Faribault,
Goodhue and Mover Counties, in Minnesota,
aU indicate ssriaTs need OF rain. The pres
ent prospect in Meeker County is NOT 70 ex-
coed one-half of the average crop. In Monroe
and Sank Counties, in Wisconsin, the fields
are dry and parched, aud all grains look
badly. The reports from Iowa, particularly
from Adair, Cherokee, Mahaska, Pottawat-
tonne, winr esheik and Norman, indicate
that many of the advanced fields of grain
already show signs of turing yellow and are
badly in need of moisture. Good rains would
insure a full average yield in the large
portion of the entire spring wheat belt, but
without them and the continuance of the
present hot and dry weather, would, un-
doubtedly, prove fatal to the outlook for the
entire crop, as the situation has already be-
come critical.
The reports of damage from insects con-
tinue to come from portions of Iowa, ILL
tions, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas and Michigan,
but none indicate that any general injury is
to result either to the winter or spring 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 prospects of large crop
yield has been lessened considerably from the
Tavages Of chlnch bugs.
Grasshoppers are reported in large numbers
in Hamilton County, Indiana; Fayette and
Logan Counties, Ohio, and in WapelIo
County, Iowa.
The reports from Indiana indicate that the
yield of winter wheat will fall slightly be-
low the average. In some of the counties
the wheat has gone back during the past
three or four weeks. In Gibson County the
fields do not promise as much as one month
ago owing to dry weather and rust. In
Lagrange County 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 full average yield. In Kansas
and Michigan the prospect has not changed.
The official report indicating that Kansas
will not produce to exceed an 100000
bushel yield only confirms the report of the
widespread injury inflicted on the crops
early in the season. Harvesting is progress
ing in Missouri, kentucky and Tennessee,
and the general tenor of the reports con-
tlnues very favorable.