Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-08-21
LATEST CROP CONDITION.
Tho Total Average Yield of Corn viii
Be Materially Reduced.

Be Materially Reduced.
CHICAGO, Aug, 15-The following crop re-
port appears in this weeks is: ue of the Far
merS' Rorie,:.-
The rains during the week ending Satur-
day were more general throughout the corn
belt than at any previous time since early in
May, and brought a modcum of hope to
farmers whose cornfel1s wore actually
burning and whitening The reports from
correspondents received during the week i'm
dicated more thoroughly than ever before
that the total average yield will b, seriously
reduced, vast areas having been blighted be
yond any power of re usotation. Out of
ninety >eight counties in Ohio, Indiana, Mich
igan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsion, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, from
which returns came during the week,
only eigh cen predict a full average
yield, thr;y indicate rot to exceie one>half
nm average yied, ten indicate not to ,xcede
o e-fourth of a crop, twenty-six report the
promise of three-fourths an average crop,
while in ten counties corn promises yield
OF not to excede five TO ten bushels an acre
unless for fodder. The most dL couraging res
ports come from Illinois; Iowa, Wisconsin
and Miss )uri. while the most encouraging
still come from Ohio and M chigan, Ind lana
and Minnesota reports continue to indicate
fair average outlook.
In Illinois this week tho only county re-
porting the promise of full average yield
is Edgar, while Jasper, Dewitt and Morgan
report the promise of three-feurths an aver
age yield In Bond and McHenry counties
one-fourth an average yield indicated.
Throughout illinois com plants continue Of
pastures completely drying u. Lite planted
potatoes are generally failure.
In Iowa, Humboldt county is the only I'VE
indicating full average yield. + tlmat'ns
by the Counties reporting this week, the Yell
for the State at large W II not exc sd so too J
per cent. of an average GRIP. 1, Decatur
and Carroll C unties the crop is set down as
fai ure. Wheat is threshing ou5 very un
evenly, but the grain is frs ding we'll. The
yield ranges from light to twenty bushels.
II Kansas o born unty reports a prom
ise Of a full average yield. The State
at large promises Is to 50 per cent. Of
an average yield. Fruit is abundant through
out the State.
In Missouri the general outlook is regarded
as very poor. Marion, Usage, Rail and s..
.ChaIl les c)untcs report almost a total crop
failure.
In Minnesota a full average yield is prom>
ised in Lincoln Kandiyopi, Wabash and Lac
Qui Palle counties. Wrsat is threshing out
eight to twenty bushels.
Nebraska promises three-fourtns of an aver
age with continued good weather conditions
The thresbing reports from Dakota show a
yield of from five to eighteen bu-hels The
yield Of the Territory will fall considerably
short of any former yearly average.
CIVIL SERVICE RULE CHANGED.
Amendment to Prevent Discrimina>
on Account of Politics,
Upon the advic, of the Civil Ssrvic, Cons
mission, President Cleveland has amended
Rule 60 Of the amended Civil Service rule,
to read as follows:
Rule 6o-All applicants for regular COM
petitive examination for admission to the
forms to be prescribed by the commission.
Requests for blank forms for application for
competitive examination for admission to
the Il .s';fi,l civil service, and all re- GUAR APP
plications for such examination, shall be
made:-
First-.If for tn, claS'ifie al departmental
service. to the United States Civil Service
Commission, at Washington, D. C.
Second IT for the clas sifi ID customs ser,
vice, to the Civil Service )srd of Examiners
for the Gu toms district in which the person
desiring to be ex ,mnei wishes to enter the
customs service.
Third-Ii for tho classified postal service,
to the Civil Services Bolrd of Elk miners for
the P,s office at which the person desiring to
he examined wishes to enter the postal SER
vice.
Requests for blank forms of application to
customs and postal boards of ex ,miners must
be made in wrtin by the persons desiring
ex animation; and such back forms sha not
be furnished to any other persons.