The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-09-04
PROSPECT FOR CROPS
CORN NOT UP TO ITS USUAL
STANDARD.

The Moisture Came Too Late to Help IL
Much-Only Half Crop of Oats, and
That of Poor Quality Pastures and
Meadows Improving.
TChicago dispatch.1
There has been a general increase Of
moisture in the West, Northwest and
Southwest during the present week. The
effect has been to partially restore the
pastures and meadows, freshen up the
leaves Of the corn, and put the ground in
very fair condition for blowing.
In the cat belt the rains have not been
heavy enough to prevent thrashing, and
another week will see this important
crop all secured.
A year ago at this date thrashing of
oats had hardly commenced. Even then.
at the low prices which were ruling, oats
were moving very freely. Country elc-
vators were nearly full of oats.
Grain dealers were beginning to ex-
perience great difficulty with handling
the immense crop which was made that.
season.
The conditions, however, to-day are
exactly the reverse. Farmers are prac-
tically selling no oats. At no time since
thrashing commenced have the facts be-
come more apparent with regard 20 the
poor quality of the crop and the small
ness of the yield per acre than to-day.
Thrashing returns this season from
4O2 points report yield of from ten to
twenty-five bushels per acre. From a
like number of points in 1889 the yield
was reported at fro m thirty to forty
bushels per acre.
| reported thirty days ago in the col
umns of the Tribune the prospects for a
half-crop of oats. These thraShing re-
turns would seem to confirm that state
ment.
Out of 700 reports in answer to the
question, Will there be any surplus Of
oats in your locality? -and these reports
cover points in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio,
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Da-
kOta, Kentucky, and TennesSee-the re-
turns make this showing: 216 answer
yes; 4S4 answer no surplus. When the
oat crop was beginning to fill it was
stricken by rust and this is in the main.
the reason that to-day the thTashing re-
turns are so poor and the quality of the
crop so inferior to that of 1889.
During the last fourteen days the
corn crop of the couhtry-what there is
left of it-has had more or less rain
The unanimous opinion, however, is thai
these rains came too late to do any good
to the crop.
In Northern Oak ta the bulk Of the
spring wheat crop is in shock. Crops of
spring wheat while they were standing
on the ground, estimated at from fifteen
to twenty bushels per acre, have been
thrashed and returns are from eight to
eleven and No. 2 quality. Considerable
grain is being stacked, and a free move
ment is not looked for before the 1St OF
November.
The movement of winter wheat i'm
Central and Southern Illinois from farm
ers' hands has steadily decreased since
the 1st Of August.
All the offerings have been freely taken
by country millerS. Farmers are we'll
along with blowing for the new crop.
The general feeling seems to be to large
ly increase the acreage of wheat over
last season.
In Southern In diana fully three
fourths of the land is now plOwed for
wheat. Seeding ought to commence
about Sept. 20. The movement of wheat
has fallen off materially during the last
thirty days.
Pastures and meadows have BEEN
greatly improved by the recent rains A
poor crop of fruit and vegetables, scarce
ly any peaches, and not half q crop Of
apples.
In Northern an Central Indiana
blowing is nearly done. The scarcity OF
good seed wheat will have the tendency
to decrease the acreage. Seed wheat is
coming now from Michigan.
Very little, if any, wheat moving.
Southern and Central Michigan report.
that blowing and seeding are now i'm
progress. The Seedbed has not been in
as fine condition for three years as it is,
to-day.
The acreage will be about the same as
last season. The wheat is moving very
slowly. With no frost until Sept Is to.
Oct. there will be fair crop of corn.
Meadows and pastures are improving.
Fruit there is none and practically not,
one-quarter enough for home cOnSump-
ton. No peaches or plumS. A few
pears and apples. Buyers are anxious
for wheat and are going among farmers
hunting it up, paying SO cents, 90 cents,
aud 81 a buShel. Seed wheat in great
demand.
Dealers are getting orders from the
South nearly every day for seed wheat,
paying 81 to $1.10 q bushel.
In Northern Kansas the bulk Of the.
thrashing of winter wheat is completed
Farmers are selling very little. Fab
blowing is progressing fnely-about two
thirds done. Seeding ought to commence.
next week. If farmers had the seed or
were able to buy it the acreage of wheat.
would be largely Increased
Rains came too late to make any inn
provement in the d rn crop, and frost al
any time before the goth of September
would seriously hurt what corn there is,
left.
No improvement in the potato situa-
on. A very short supply of fruit and
vegetables of all kinds.
Southern Nilsson ri says the movement
of wheat has not increased. Farmers
are busy preparing the ground for the
new crop.
The demand good from millersv for
wheat. Supply not equal to more than
current wants. O tlook for potato crop
is very slim. Apple crop light and of a
poor quality.
They have had very good rains lately
in Kentucky. Considerable blowing has
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