Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-01
CONDITIONS iN NEBRASKA.
Corn Promises Large Yield. Except in
 the States Garden Spot.
A recent McCoolx (Neb.) dispatch says:

thc 5bate's GbrQeu 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 it. 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 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 prepara- tory to putting in another crop of win ter wheat.
 Leaving Lincoln the outlook is much less promising. Between Waverly and Fairmont, a distance of sixty miles, is 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 Ivy S1,S- TA copiously on all sides of it and all around 1t, 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 compara- tive failure. It will only run from a quarter to half crop, averaging as whole about one-third an ordinary crop.
 Oa6s have not fared so badly. They are thrashing out from thirty-f1ve 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 it 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, 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 prae- tical1y 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 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 best fields thrashing out one hundred bushels.
 Alfalfa is 6 new sfop 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 it yields one ton to the acre, but after the third year it yields three crops year, which foot up seven and one-half tons to the acre. It 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. It is the coming crop all along the flats of the Republican valley.