Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
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NEED RAIN.
Farming Interests Of Many States
Suffer from Drought
Safety Of the Spring Wheat Crop
Seriously Threatened-Light
Yields Expected.


the Press from Portsmouth, o., says:
The continued drought has caused seri-
GUS loss throughout Scioto and adjoin-
ing counties. The tobacco crop is al
most total failure, and fall wheat is
i'll bad shape, great deal of it having
been killed after sprouting. Water
sells at rs cents per barrel ut West
Union and Wellston. and 40 cents per
barrel at Winchester. y number of
furnaces and brick works in Scioto,
Lawrence and Jackson counties have
been compelled to shut down. Cattle
are being sold at the first price offered,
owing to scarcity of feed, as the hay
and corn crops have been an almost
total failure in many localities.
Rain Badly Necde,l.
Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 26.-Farmers
throughout Indiana have awakened to
the fact that the spring wheat crop is
seriously threatened by the prevailing
drought. In this state the weather bu-
rcau records show that the earth has
received only one-third the normal
rainfall. Several showers shortly after
the sowing season served to sprout the
wheat, but since then there has not
been enough rain to nourish the tender
| plant and the stocks are now furnishing
for water. The water courses through
out the state are lower than at any time
i'll years with the exception of last Win
ter, when the low water mark was
broken.
Along the upper waters of the Wa
bash, White, Eel and Alississinniwa
rivers the streams are all so shallow
thnt child can wade them. Mills that
depend OH water power are shutting
down, as the water has ceased to run
through the races. In some localities
the farmers are beginning to haul wa
ter from the creeks for their stock
Unless rain comes within n few weeks
and of sufficient amount to thoroughly
soak the soil the next wheat crop will
be shorter by several million bushels
than last year, when it was only half
crop.
Wheat In a Critical Condition.
Lansing, Mich, Oct. 2G.-For the first
time in it's history Michigan has expert
enced successive spring, summer and
winter without having rain enough to
make mud. Since winter wheat was
sown only sufficient rain to lay the dust
has fallen, the ground not having been
wet to the depth of an inch. The result
is-winter wheat is in u very critical con,
dition in this state.
l. Wheat Dying In Nebraska.
Omaha, Heb., Oct. 26.-Fall wheat is
i'll a very bad way. There has been nc
rain for nearly month, and what fal
wheat has been sown i'll the southern
portion of the state will die withou
rain the next week.
Missouri's crop VIII BE Short.
st. Louis, Oct. 2G.-The effect q
drought ON winter wheat i'll Missouri
is not SO great in some sections as il
others, but on the whole it may be sal,
to have lessened the chances of full
crop next year anywhere from Is to 9
per cent.
Marshall, Mo-, Oct. sG.-Ncver befor,
at this season of the year was drough
SO great as it now is in this section
Cisterns are dry, stock suffering fo
water and farmers are in constan'
dread of fire. The Chicago & Alton ha:
to haul water from Glasgow to Slater
for use in their shops, roundhouse, etc
business is generally depressed.