The sea coast echo., 1895-09-14
CONDITIONS IN NEeRAsKA.
Corn Promises a Large Yield. Except tr
the states Garden spot.

the states Garden spot
A recent McCook (Neb. dispatch says;
On crossing the Missouri river run
ming to Lincoln, the Burlington land
agents party found 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 II. II is SO
far advanced that the uninitintcd could
be made to believe very readily that II
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 1t is still in the
shock and good deal of it has been
stacked. 1t Is thrashing out from thir-
ty to fifty bushels to the acre and will
average about forty. The wheat crop
has all been harvested, and farmers are
now busy blowing their land prepara-
tory to putting in another crop of win
ter wheat.
Leaving Lincoln the outlook is much
less promising. between Wayerly and
Fairmont, n 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 tboy
may 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 IL and all
around 1t, but the clouds refused to
give 1t a 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 q compare
tive failure. 1t will only run from n
quarter to half o crop, averaging as a
whole about one-third an ordinary
crop.
Oats have not Jared so badly. They
are thrashing out from thirty-five to
forty bushels an acre. Heavy rains fell
over this section Mt the end of last week
They came too late, however, to save
the bulk of the corn. Very much of it
wiltcd beyond redemption and good
deal of IL has already been cut for fod.
der. Wheat in this section Is thrashipg
out fifteen bushels to the acre.
West of Fnirmont the scene again
changes and an ocean of waving corn,
strong and luxuriant, is to be seen as
far as the eye can reach in every direc-
tion. The crop from Hastings to the
western boundary of the state is prac-
tically made, and nothing but killing
frost can now blight it. 1t will average
not less than sixty bushels TO the acre,
and very many large fields will yield
hfty bushels.
Around McCool is where the disas-
ters OF last year were most severely
felt. The gains of this year have more
than made up for the losses then sus-
tanned. The whole section of country
looks like vcritable garden, and the
people feel buoyant beyond expression.
Winter wheat is thrashing out about
twenty bushels to the acre and the
best fields are yielding thirty bushels.
Spring wheat is running from twelve
to eighteen bushels to the acre. Oats
average from flfty to sixty bushels, the
best fields thrashing out one hundred
bushels.
Alfalfa is new crop here with which
the people are delighted. All Kinds of
live stock eat it with relish, and it Is
proving to be fattening fodder. The
first year 1t yields one ton to the acre,
but after the third year 1t yields three
crops year, which foot up seven ana
onc-half tons to the acre. 1t is worth in
the market five dollars per ton, but to
feed cattle the results have shown it to
be worth seventy dollars per acre. 1t
is the coming crop all along the fats Of
the Republican valley.