The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-14
NORTHWESTERN CROPS.
SUMMARY OF THEIR CONDITION
UP TO DATE,
Grain Beyond Danger Of Priesthood
Prospects for an Aver
age Yield.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, geptember 13.-The
folio wing crop summary will appear in
this weeks issue OF the Farmers Re-
vie,o: The corn crop bad week OF
hot and crowdiDg weather, and the
majority OF reports received at the
close OF the week indicate that the
crop Is well past any serious danger OF
iros'. And In portions OF Illinois,
Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin
the grain is ready sufficiently ma
tured to resist any injury from light
fross. The general averages indicated
by the reports during the past four
weeks have not changed in any pariic-
ular degree. In a general way the
prospects are still very good for full
average yield in Ohio, Michigan, In
diana and Minnesota. The average
prospect We yield is lower in Illinois,
Wisconsin, Missouri and 10 va, and
ranges low in Kansas and Nebraska.
The averages given last week are va
iied from only slightly. The average
f)r illinois, according to reports
from twenty-five of the principal corn
growing counties, is between 62 and
IS per cent, and five of the
C untits report that the crop is out
OF all danger from fros'. The NEST
encouraging reports ( ON Illinois come
from Lee, Ford ard Morgan counties,
and are the only ones reporting q
prospect OF full average yield. The
average is the lowest in Edwards and
Mercer couLteF. In twenty counties
CT Iowa the general average ranged
from SO to SO per cert. In Ca and
Carroll counties the reports show the
crop will give full average yield. In
Madison, Decstnr, Marion and Appa-
nois counties the average falls from 20
to 35 per cent. of en- average yield.
The telegrsphed average OF 81 per
can't. cent last wet k should have been
applied 10 Iowa instead Of Onio. In
Kansas the lowest average reported is
% ptr cent. and the highest 100. The
average for the State ranges from Sc
to ~ per cent. In Missouri the sv-
erage for the fifteen scattered counties
falls below 80 per cent, WITH general
average Of 5S pr cant. 10 w sconsn
some OF the 9un les indicate very low
averages. In Grant, Fond du Lac,
Sbeboygan hud Shelby the yield
is placed from ten to fifteen bushels
per AGRA. The average for the State
runs very low. Fully one.hllf the
counties of Minnescti Predict full
average yield. In Pipestone county
the yield promises to be the lsrg's st
ever raised in that county. In Michi-
gan the yield viii be near y full
average, and in Indiana will probab' y
exceed the yield of year ago. In
Nebraska the yie'd will bs fully IS
per cent, OF an average crop.
The reports continue 10 indicate
that early plant d potatoes promise a
fair yield, while nearly all late planted
potatoes are vey poor, indicating
generally less than one-fourth the
usual yield. The average for total
crop will exceed very little more than
one-hslf the ueual yield.
Late rains have improved the past.
ures somewhat in Iowa and Illinois,
where the gas in many sections il
reported sholt, but green. In other
large fectinns pastures ave reported
dry and short, and cattle leau. In
many portions of l linois, Missouri,
Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas corn il
being rut in lsr.e quantities for fod-
der. H'gI are reported light, but
generally healthy. Ho' cfo'era is re
ported in Jasper county, Illinois, and
IN Osage county, Missouri, hogs ale
dying from en- unknown disease.