Omaha daily bee., 1892-08-01
equal to last year. Rye has been harvested
and Is OF excellent quality.
Cass County.


tion, with barely the same acreage as last
year Potatoes have suffered from the dry
weather; acreage slightly less than a year
ago. Apples seem to be very good crop,
but trou bled with worms. Grapes are
thick and are IN excellent condition. Pros
poets good for the largest yield In the his
tory OF the county some broom corn
raised this year and in good condition.
WEEPING WATER-The rain came in time
to save the corn and late potatoes. Corn will
come out all right. Oats is not an average
crop. Fall wheat is splendid. Some report
only thirty bushels to the acre, others claim
fifty. Spring wheat will average fifteen
bushels per acre. Burley is n fair crop.
Next year will see more winter wheat sown
than ever before in this county.
ELMwooD-Corn promises to ba good,
wheat will yield from forty TO forty-tve
bushels per acre and oats from thirty-tive to
1orty. Barley is as good as last year. Po-
tatoes are very good and promise q fair crop.
Apple promises are fair.
Cedar County.
HARTrNGToN-The recent showers have
helped ali kinds of grain wonderfully. Small
grain on the hills will not yield very heavily
on account Of the hot ury weather during
the past three weeks, but will be as good as
could be expected. Wheat ana oats in the
valleys will yield fifty bushels to the acre.
Corn will be all right.
Clay County.
SUTTON Wheat is harvested and mostly
stacked and secure. 1t is almost entirely
winter wheat, free from rust and the berry
vecy plump AMI will yield twenty-five
bushels to the acre. Oats will be about two
thirds of crop, in good condition and free
from rust Corn is all tasseled out a strong,
vigorous growth, good stand and the recent
rains insure q yield equal to last wear.
Barley is not much raised In this county.
| Flax looks well and the yield will be equal
| to last year. Potatoes are looking well,
| with no appearance OF the Colorado bug,
| and the yield will be large Honey bees are
Tor the hrst timo making large amount OF
| surplus from white clover, which has made
| an unusual growth this year. Several acres
| OF test beets promise good yield.
! CLAY CENTER-Since the bountiful rain
| Cay county farmers are feeling happy Corn
| cropls In fine condition and the yield will be
| fully up to the usual average. Winter wheat
| Is all that could be asked. IL has been harry
| ested and some threshold lowest yield so far
| reported, twenty-five bushels per acre, test
| ING sixty-tnree pounds to the oushel; some
report thlrty-tive bushels per acre. The
| acreage is far in excess of any previous year.
| Oats has greatly improved since the rain two
weeks ago. The hay crop Glover and
timothy is immense. Flax is considerably
below the average.
Cheyenne County.
SIDNEY-Corn is backward owing to late
season. Oats is very good and YIELDS
thirtyive bushels to the acre. Wheat is in
excellent condition and ready to harvest;
from twenty to thirty bushels to the acre.
Rye is already harvested and yields twenty
to twenty-five bushels to the acre. Barley
Is the finest ever raised here; forty to sixty
bushels to the acre. Flax was sown too
late and is backward. Potatoes are in fair
condition. The recent rains have improved
growing crops of all kinds. Two new
grain elevators will be built here this fall
FAiRFIELD-W Winter wheat is harvested;
acreage Is far in excess of any previous year
and will yield from twenty TO twenty-five
bushels an acre. Oats is nearly harvested
about three-foprths of a crop. Corn has
grown wonderfully during tho past few
weeks; the late twenty-four-hour rain has
insured nearly a iul crop. Rye, barley flax
and potatoes are up to the average. There
are probably over |, 900 acres of sorghum cane
growing IN this immediate vicinity. 1t suf-
fered on account of late season, but Is now
doing finely.
Chase County.
IMPERIAL-Wheat Is OF excellent quality
Will make about 75 per cent OF last years
immense yield Tho acreage is double that
of last year. Oats is about US wheat. Corn
within the last week, has improved much
Tho crop prospects are better than at this
time last year, Acreage about the same
Barley, flax and potatoes are fully equal to
last year Plenty of rain the last month.
Cherry County.
VALENTINE-Wheatw will yield from fifteen
to twenty bushels per acre, about two-thirds
as heavy as last year, but the acreage is
much larger and fully as mnch wheat will be
marketed as last year. Harvest will begin
next week. Corn is late but has grown very
rapidly for the past three weeks. Rye is be-
ing harvested, is heavy yield and of excel
lent quality. Oats is short, but will aver
age twenty-five bushels per acre. The ex-
treme northeastern part of the county Is suf-
fering somewhat from drouth. Other parts
are all right.
Cunning County.
RISCpOFT-Nhaot will moke from t,yaiya
to fifteen bushels per acre: oats from twenty
TO twenty-five, and potatoes from third to
half crop. Barley is a fair yield. Rain came
in steady drlzzle, lasting about fifteen
hours, and will greatly help corn.
Custer County.
BROKEN Bow-Corn is as good as ever
had, aud fair crop of wheat, above the
average. Good crops all over Custer county
Plenty of hay, and the hay as good or
better than ever.
Dawson County.
LExrNGroN-Crops of all kinds are fully
up to the average. Wheat Is being cut and
ten days will see the harvest practically
over. Estimates of the wheat crop vary
from twelve TO twenty bushels an acre, with
"a probable average of eighteen bushels.
Corn is doing splcndidly, recent rains max
ing good yield certain
Deuel. County.
ana the acreage about ten times as great as
last year. Tho farmers are now in the midst
of harvest and find wheat and rye much
heavier than expected. Barley is full crop.
No flax is raised in this county. Potatoes
will be good full crop. Corn is n little
backward, but the recent rains have brought
II out 80 as to insure u full crop.
Dixon County.
WAKEFIELD--Corn acraagei is about + per
cent above last year. A fine rainfall all over
eastern part of county. Average corn out
look Is fully two ~eeks behind this time last
year, with one-half to two.tnirds the
prospect OF same yield per acre. " heat
yield is fully IS per cent below last year,
with fair spect of making within 10 TO 10
per cent of same yield Acreage of oats Is
fully 10 per cent greater than last year, with
Il yield Is per cent short of last year. Very
little rye was sowu, but the yield is better
than ever before. Owing to so late senson
in completing planting corn more Than usual
area Of low lands WAS seeded 10 uIllet. This
aud fax promise but a light yield. Timothy
and clover hay gave full crop Prairie hay
Is better than last year. Potato crop Is be
low last year in acreage, with prospect of
about one-half the same yield. Only small
amount of barley was soWu which will
MAKE fully up TO the yield OF last year. Rye
and barley are all harvested and the cutting
of wheat just begun.
PoNCA--ln tne northeastern part wheat
and oats will Yield at least a three-fourths
croD. and corn is well advanced and viii be