The Monticellonian., 1895-08-30
CONDITIONS iN NEBRASKA.
Corn Promises a Large Yield, Except h
 the States Garden Spot.

the States Garden Spot.
 A recent McCoolx (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 1t. It 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, it 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. It is thrashing out from thir- ty to fifty bushels 10 the acre and will average about forty. The wheat crop has ell been harvested and farmers are now busy blowing their land prepara- tory 10 putting in another crop of win ter wheat.
 Leaving Lincoln the outlook is much
 
 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 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. It has rained nround it, but the clouds refused to give it drop of moisture until too late to savo the corn crop. For stretch of country sixty miles long and sixty miles wide the corn crop is a compara- tive failure It will only run from a quarter to half a crop, averaging as a whole about one-third an ordinary crop
 Oa53 have not f ed so badly They are thrashing out from thirty-five to forty bushels an acre. Heavy rains fell over this section at the end of Inst week They came too late, however, to save the bulk of the corn. Very much of 1t wilted beyond redemption and a good deal of it has already been cut for fod- der. Wheat in this section is thrashing out fifteen bushels to the acre.
 West of Fairmont the scene again changes and an ocean of waving corn, stron., 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. It will average not less than sixty bushels to the acre, and very many large fields will yield fifty bushels.
 Around McCook 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- tained. The whole section of country looks like a veritable 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 fifty to sixty bushels, the pest ueidS thraSnlnP out one hundred bushels
 Alfalfa is E. new sroP here with which the people are delighted. All kinds of live stock eat it with relish, and 1t Is proving to be fattening fodder The first year it yields one ton to the acre, but after the third year it yields three crops q year, which foot up seven and oue-hnlf tOns tO the acre IT Ia worth in the market five dollars per ton, but to feed cattle the results have shown it to be worth seventy dollars per acre. It is the coming crop all along the flats of the Republican valley.