The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-08-30
conrlrIoNs IN NEsRAsxA.
Corn Promises . Large Yield, Except In
Wv the States Garden Spot.

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A recent M cCook tNeb. ! 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 it, 1t is so
far advanced that the uninitiated could
be made to believe very readily that 1t
is past all harm from any source. Not
withstanding it's 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 it 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 prepare
tory to putting in another crop OF win
ter wheat.
Leaving Lincoln the outlook is much
less promising. Between Waverly ana
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. 1t has rained
copiously on all sides Of it and all
around it, but the clouds refused to
give it 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 compare
tive failure. 1t will only run from a
quarter to half crop, averaging as
whole about one-third an ordinary
crop.
| Oats have not Jared SO badly. They
are thrashing out from thirty-tive to
forty bushels an acre. Heavy rains fell
over this section at the end OF last week.
They came too late, however, to save
the bulk of the corn. Very much OF "
wilted beyond redemption and good
deal of it has already been cut for fod
der. Wheat in this section is thrashlne
out fifteen bushels to the acre.
West of Fairmont the scene agar
changes and an ocean Of waving corn
strong and luxuriant, is to be seen a!
far as the eye can reach in every direc
ton. The crop from Hastings to the
western boundary of the state IS prac
tically made, and nothing but a killing
frost can now blight it. 1t will average
not less than sixty bushels to the acre
and very many large fields will yiei'
fifty bushels.
Around McCoolx is where the disas
. tiers of last year were most severed.
felt. The gains of this year have NOR
, than made up for the losses then sus
, tanned. The whole section OF countr
: looks like veritable garden. and tn
r people feel buoyant beyond expression
Winter wheat Is thrashing out abou
, twenty bushels to the acre and tn
a best fields are yielding thirty bushels
Spring wheat is running from twelv
!. to eighteen bushels to the acre. Oa'
i average from fifty to sixty bushels, tn
a 0eSt ueluS tnrdSAinS Ou' onS
4 bushels.
Alfalfa is a new crop here with whic
the people are delighted. All kinds
live stock eat it with relish, and it
a proving to be fattening fodder. III
first year it yields one ton to the acr
q but after the third year it yields thrf
= crops year, which foot up seven an
a one-half tons to the acre. 1t is worth
q the market five dollars per ton, but
; feed cattle the results have shown it
v be worth seventy dollars per acre.
,. is the coming crop all along the flats