The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-10-12
CONDITIONS IN NEBRASKA.


Corn Promises . Large Yield. Except In
the States Garden Spot.
A recent McCook (Neb. dispatch says:
On crossing the Missouri river rum
ming to Lincoln, the Burlington land
agents party found a prospect which,
from an agricultural standpoint, could
not be excelled. Corn is luxuriant and
sturdy and every stalk shows large
sized ears sticking out from it. 1t is SO
far advanced that the uninitiated could
be made to believe very readily that it
is past all harm from any source. Not
| withstanding its fine appearance, how
ever, il is not yet out of danger OF
| frost, and will not be for at least two
weeks.
| A fine crop of oats has been reaped in
this section. Much of it is still in the
shock and a good deal of it has been
stacked. 1t is thrashing out from thir-
tv to fifty bushels to the acre and will
average about forty. The wheat crop
has ali been harvested. and farmers are
now busy blowing their land prepara-
tory to putting in another crop OF wiz
ter wheat.
Leaving Lincoln the outlook is much
less promising. Between Waverly and
Fairmont, distance of sixty miles, is
a stretch of country which has usually
been described as the garden spot OF
Nebraska. Crops have always been
abundant here, however poorly they
NAV have been in other parts OF the
state. Last year and this year have
been the only known exceptions to this
rule. Somehow this belt has suffered
severely this year. 1t has rained
copiously on all sides OF it and al
around it, but the clouds refused te
give it drop of moisture until too late
to save the corn crop. For stretch Of
country sixty miles long and sixty
miles wide the corn crop is compare
tive failure. 1t will only run from
quarter to half crop, averaging as
whole about one-third an ordinar,
crop.
, Oats have not Jared SO badly. The.
!, are thrashing out from thirty-hve q
: forty bushels an acre. Heavy rains fel
over this section at the end of last week
They came too late, however, to saw
the bulk of the corn. Very much OF
wilted beyond redemption and a goo
/. deal of it has already been cut for foe
y der. Wheat in'this section is thrashiD
:. out fifteen bushels to the acre.
!, West of Fairmont the scene agai
changes and an ocean of waving corr
strong and luxuriant, is to be seen q
far as the eye can reach in every dire'
ton. The crop from Hastings to tn
10 western boundary of the state is pra'
9. tically made, and nothing but KILN
= frost can now blight it. 1t will averaG
/ not less than sixty bushels to the acr
n and very many large fields will yiel
fifty bushels.
in Around McCook is where the disa
" ters of last year were most scverel
a felt. The gains of this year have MOI
20 than made up for the losses then su
,e tanned. The whole section of COUNT
Ii. looks like a veritable garden, and ii
n people feel buoyant beyond expressio
" Winter wheat is thrashing out abo'
r. twenty bushels to the acre and Il
d. best fields are yielding thirty bushel
err Spring wheat is running from twel
ne to eighteen bushels to the acre. Ga
se average from fifty to sixty bushels, T.
TX best fields thrashing out one hundr
Tx bushels.
ly Alfalfa is q new crop here with viii
or the people are delighted. All kinds
er live stock eat it with relish, and it
No proving to be fattening fodder. T
If first year it yields one ton to the &C
as but after the third year it yields thu
as crops year, which foot up seven a
it, one-half tons to the acre. 1t is worth
ng the market five dollars per ton, but
fit. feed cattle the results have shown it
be worth seventy dollars per acre.
is the coming crop all along the fats
the Republican valley.