The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-28
CORN LOOKING WE'LL.
Crop. Reports From All Over Kan
sas Briefed.
WHEAT ALMOST A TOTAL FAILURE.

Corn and Fruit ExceIlent-Rain Need
ed Badly in All Parts OF the state.
The JOURNAL is able to present this
morning, crop reports from representa-
tive counties in all sections of the state.
Corn is almost uniformly reported as do
ing we'll but wheat is practically a fail
ure. The reports from the towns is as
follows:
ATCHIsON- grain in Northeastern
Kansas is still in good condition but in
northern Kansas the conditions are rather
unfavorable There will be very little
wheat, and rain and favorable weather
from now on will be necessary to make
two-thirds of a crop of oats. Corn is in
fair condition, but has been retarded.
ALMA-Wheat gone; oats badly dam
aged; large acreage corn in excellent
condition.
ANTHoNY-Wheat IS per cent; oats
fair; corn promising, but late.
KANSAS CITY-Wheat will be one-third
of a crop; corn prospects are good if
there are seasonable rains; fruit abund-
dant.
CoLDwATER-Wheat killed; corn very
poor; grass dying; no rain.
CONCORDIA-Wheatr ruined; oats nearly
so; corn backward, needing rain.
DODGE CITY-Crop outlook very IN
favorable; rain needed.
ELDoRA light; oats fair;
corn first class fruit plentiful
ELLswoRTH-Whe is a failure and
all crops are suffering for rain; prospects
very gloomy.
EMPoRIA-Wheat poor, probably half
a crop; oats poor, half crop; corn looks
well, increased acreage; fruit prospects,
good.
ENTERPRIsE-No wheat or oats; corn
needs rain badly.
Fort ScoTT-Corn and oats never bet
ter; no wheat; prospects largest fruit
harvest ever gathered
FREDONIA-Corn. fruit and grass good;
wheat, oats and fax seriously damaged.
GARDEN CITY-Wheat, oats and barley,
half crop; alfalfa, first crop, good.
GARNETT-Co Corn, oats and fax look
fine; fruit promises full crop; wheat,
short
Wheat, dead; open barley
dying and corn needing rain badly.
HAYS CITY-Wheat, one-fourth of a
crop; corn fair; oats and barley good;
potatoes big.
H1AwArHA-The crop outlook is bad;
small grain is burning up from drought.
HOLToN-Corn good; wheat and oats
poor; grain short: fruit fair.
HORACE-Whea is total failure, and
the prospects for other crops are very
slim.
HOWARD Southern Kansas crops
badly damaged by drought; about half
crop
HOXIE-Crops very poor.
HUTCHINsON-Whea and oats needing
rain; corn not suffering.
INDEPENDENCE-COrn prime; wheat
one-third crop; oats and fax almost a
failure.
KINGMAN-Wheat and oats in this sec
ton almost total failure; corn pros
poets good.
LA CROssE-Whsat one-third crop; all
spring crops promise we'll; rain needed.
LARNED-Winter wheat will be only
fourth of crop; spring grains are in good
shape; corn fair
LEAvENwORTH-Less wheat sown and
more corn in northeastern Kansas. Con-
dtions favor a full yield.
LINCOLN CENTER-Wheat will be a
total failure; other crops will be short
because of drought
MANHATTAN-Wheat total failure; oats
are fourth of crop; corn good
MARION-Wheat one-third crop; corn
and oats fair prospects,
MCPHERSON and oats light
and total failure unless rain falls this
week.
MEDICINE LoDGE-Sman grain total
failure; some prospects for corn.
NEwTON-Wheat half a crop; oats
NORToN-Small grain all gone; corn
prospects good with rain soon.
OLATHE - Corn aud potatoes good;
wheat, oats and timothy damaged by
bugs.
OTTAwA-Wheat, oats and fax are in
bad condition, due to drought and bugs;
corn is backward.
PAOLA-Crops best known at this time
of year.
SALINA-Corn doing we'll; one fourth
crop of wheat expected: oats ruined by
drought.
SENECA-Corn in fine condition: also
fruit; other crops bad.
SrOCKTON-No wheat; oats fair; corn
and potatoes fair; need rain.
SYRACUsE-Alfalfa good on bottom
lands; all other crops failures.
WELLINGTON-Wh eat and oats prac-
ticaIly failures; immense corn acreage;
unprecedented drought.
WICHITA-The wheat crop for south
Kansas and Oklahoma are apractical fail =
favorable conditions. Oats will make
scarcely half crop. Corn is unusually
large, but has not grown for two weeks.
Cotton in Oklahoma is promising.
YATES CENTER-Wheat fair; oats and
fax poor; all crops about two-thirda
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