Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-05-09

''N'A - 'iA shNe MS NplltSIftII'l-
wheat all right.
w. =, Croysdalc & Sons had the follow
Kas.. yesterday: 'Dry, hot winds ne
sgorghing our wheat; a few more days like
greatly damaged. If we don't get rain
soon our crop is gone. Farmers are al
ready blowing some of it up and planting
The Chicago Chronicle Of yesterday says:
not a car of spring wheat received at
only one being contract, while the insper-
ton showed there was withdrawn from
store @.gr bushels of winter and i2.o5
bushels of spring. The shipment blank
showel GrlGft bushels shipped, $500 beIn.
by rail, What the shipments would be IL
vessels were obtainable is a question. but
they would no doubt be much larger than
they are
The Moses Bros, Grain Company, of
Great Bend kas., wired Haywood & Co.
ont and sun going back fast. Wind high
and dry"
a.. Il. blanchard. writing to the Slmonds
Hr4in company, from BenninGton, Kas,,
The country this morning and viii take
another trip this evening l found the
or three. fields entirely gone. / believe il
Is the dry. weather that Is hurting this
section, Good rain just now is badly
,- w 4 l;,l Roll writing to the same firm
pant Of S"igw!ck county says: 'Our crop
prospects are dw!niling away fast. The
strong, dry, winds are drying UP the wheat.
| spotted. have, a number of relatives In
Oklahoma and the strip, and nearly all re-
wick, Harper, sumner and Butler counties
VIII not make half Il crop From Cole
HFItIE5 sv Hba rEyS' NfWSsbpe nhl infrq ante Of NIX
the ptst week. Chineh bugs, dry weather
P6s g 3 Saai T' Fai1 are TE!Sgins sa saa h'y 10 w wi'h
most favorable prospect for wheat a week
ago has dwindled to less than one-half,"
state Grain Inspector Clarsen said In
Fridays st. Paul Pioneer Press: seeding
IN Red River valley ~ this date during the
,ast seven years, With exception of 1852 and
the two years mentioned 1t was about hall
done at ms season. To-Day in an area
tween su,C.O.Cy1 and 9n,wD.ODl bushels of
spring wheat not to exceed 10 per cent OF
sown.Almosi constant, rains In This territory
for the past thirty days have prevented
sowing even under the most favorable cir
c~nmstances until about May % 1t re-
quircs ninety days from date OF germina-
Won 20 mature the varieties Of wheat gen
orally s9wn ~ This section, The average
Ing the past eleven years H. August 10.
The acreage plowed In the valley last fall
doc no, GS'efa 30 per cent Of hat Of prey;
! renders II Impossible to Increase wheat
AREA by, sprins blowing, The yield of
four bushels per acre against an average
yield of fifteen bushels in former seasons.
II is plainly evident that the Red River
valley cannot produce this season to exceed
80 or A per cent of last years crop.
Messrs. Irwin, Green * Co, of Chicago,
in their weekly letter Of May ., say: THE
weather has been tine In the PRINCIPAL ag-
ricultnral areas Of the United States, with
warm showers in. many places. The tenn
peraturc Of the last ten days was above
the normal In most of the states on this
side OF the Rocky mountains, but 1t was
below the average for the season on the
Pacific coast. 1t may be admitted that the
prospects for winter wheat in the eastern
half Of the United States are much better
than "A year ago, though IL should not be-
forgotten that much of the crop went into
the cold season, in poor shape, and has not
strength needed for "A really good develOp-
ment this spring and summer The outlook
in the Northwest is another matter, Plenty
of rain has fallen there, but seeding has
been delayed to a dangerously late date,
and much of what Is being done is with
out the usual preliminary Flowing, a great
percentase of The area being simply .har-
this slipshod style OF agriculture is far
from the best, but even with this the
ducel, especially in North Dakota and