The Forrest City times., 1894-09-21

| boil worms and rust damaged crop; Arkansas, | crop large if weather continues eood Lee rust | damaged crop; Lonoke. damage from rust | Lafayette. season has been unfavorable for the growth of the plant and the fruitage is good l Ouachita. damaged by rust weed well loaded with bolis Randolph, rains have made crop | fruitful: Little River, too much rain, weed very large. bottom bolls rotting; Brad | ley shedding badly, and if continued | will destroy all top crop, rust generally prevalent: Marion. not fruiting well, very | late: Union. not doing we'll because of drought and rust White, fine crop: Hot Springs, fre- quent rains caused the crop to take rust and | has injured it g per cent; Nevada. cut by | drought boil worm doing great damage.
 Following is report by counties on
 the corn crop in Missouri and Illinois: | Mississippi county. damaged by drought at l least one-half; Putnam, 40 per cent. of an | average crop: Butler. prospect was best we | ever had but drought did great damage; | Bollinger, average about 40 per cent; Holt, a larger per cent. than usual cut into fod- | der: Atchison, there have been few local | showers. dried up and cut to fodder no sign of rain now: Barton, very little | rain, crop will be larger. however, than in | 1893; Gasconade, very little rain, corn rip- | ening now. Henry, drought and hot winds re- duced conditions several points: Audrain. fine | prospect of a month ago now reduced half by l drought and chinch bugs; Caldwell, drought I cut crop half: Christian, never promised so we'll as this season, acreage largest in the his- tory of the county, and has suffered very little | for rain; Hickory, cut short by drought | Lewis drought cut crop and large amount | will rot make ten bushels per acre: Maries, | great damage by drought: Newton, nearly ruined by drought; Franklin, drought has caused almost failure: Scott, drought broken | by showers which will somewhat improve late crop. Camden, drought damaged crop greatly; Cape Girardeau. now good in places and dam aged in places: Crawford, very light crop, drought: Jackson late corn injured by drought, early corn will make fair crop: Laciede, half crop drought; Marion, low lands promise good | yield uplands worthless; Miller. cut short, drought; Randolph, drought did great damage: Webster prospect was excellent till drought Charlton. about half crop; Lafayette. drought | disastrous to late corn, early corn not good in consequences; Pike, rains scarce, chinch bugs very destructive. much of the corn we'll formed, but no ear: shannon. late corn improved 70 points: Carroll, drought unbroken; Douglas, heavy rains in May injured planting and drought in July and August made crop short; | Grundy, short from drought; Harrison. very | little corn, drought continues Livingston, no change in drought: New Madrid, much damage by drought, burned badly Scotland. being cut and fed extensively: Clinton. poorly matured from drought; Lincoln, late rain has 1 helped somewhat, but that on uplands is light, l bottoms good: St. Francois some fields dried | up and would burn If fire started; Wright, crop very irregular. in some localities fair average, l in other sections cut short by drought; An- | drew, from third to a half crop. much yield l ing 40 to 90 bushels, crop planted too thick;
 Galloway, drought and bugs render condition | difficult to estimate; Gentry, local showers
 come too late to do any good; Greene, drought
 damaged yield materially, but it will be as | large as last year: Pulaski, too dry Ste. Gen. evieve, somewhat helped by rains.
 ILLINOIS.
 | Alexander county. badly damaged by drought: Clinton outlook poor Cumberland, late rains greatly improved crop: Fayette, burnt up on 1 prairie lands, bottom lands fair yield; Full l ton, improved by late rains; Jackson, dam aged l by drought and chinch bugs: Jersey ears very | small planted too thick; Lee, half crop Ma | con, maturing nicely, but a little late; Madi-
 son, damaged by hot winds Morgan, condi- l tion improved by late rans Schuyler, pros-
 pect for a good yield: Shelby in southern
 part one-tenth crop will be cut for fodder,
 remainder very fine: Union. not half a
 crop; Wabash, late crop improved by rains: Clark, larger yield than ever before, but quali- | ty injured by bugs; Edgar good crop; Livings-
 ton, unless frost comes early half crop will be
 made: Boone, 2 eatly injured by late rains
 Jo Daviess, late rains will make three-fourths
 crop; Carroll, rain about August 5 improved
 crop; Edwards, fair crop on lowlands, uplands
 failure: Mason, only half crop: Massac, rain
 too late to improve early crop, but late plant | ing will yield we'll; Calhoun fine crop, acreage | largely increased: Champaign, prospects for l large crop, nothing but unusual frost can
 damage it; Christian, prospect good for fine crop; Dupage, small growth with short ears
 and half crop; Hancock, ripening fast,
 Henry, season favorable for maturing:
 Jasper, greatly damaged by bugs; John
 son, late planted will improve by
 rains Kendall, diminished from drought | Logan, improved by late rains: Menard very l short, drought; Peoria, prospect improved by l late rains; Pike, increased acreage, yield good Tazewell dry weather and grub working at the
 roots will greatly reduce yield; Winnebago, l showers saved crop some fields good and | enough will be made for home consumption:
 Kankakee doing well since rain of August II ;
 Gallatin, late planting improved by rains; | Greene, almost up to average; Washington, 1 half crop already cut up for feed; Wayne, im- | proved by late rains. lessened by bugs Dekalb,
 much of it drying fast and will be cut to save 1 the fodder: Kane, condition improved by
 showers; Marshall. condition improved by
 last rains: Vermilion, in fine condition: Will, prospect not as good as month ago; Brown, seriously injured by drought Ford. not more | than half crop it is all drying up and farmers are cutting it for fodder and feeding wheat to hogs instead of corn Effingham, rain came too 1 late to benefit crop, only enough for home con- | sumption; Lake, has cared much better than | was expected, fair crop except on sandy land; Scott. promises good yield. most of it beyond danger from frost; White, cut short. dry | weather the cause.
 Bad Air.