The Red Cloud chief., 1897-08-06
REPORT BY COUNTIES
SOUTHEASTERN SECTION.

StCIION.
Butler-Corn crop damaged bv dry
hot weather; pastures failing badly
tame hay fair yield and good QUALITY
late hay will be short. ~
Cloy-Most small grain in stack. tbe
rest being thrashed from shock; rain
needed Tor corn, pastures and fall plow.
ing; corn rolls some, but IL not suffering
badly.
Fillmore-Hot and dry, but corn does
not seem 10 DE suffering; thrashing in
progress, yield good aud quality fair to
good.
Gage-Good week for thrashinu and
stacking: corn beginning to need rain.
HamiIton-In spots where there has
been local rain, the cOrn seems tn he do.
ing reasonably well, but generally corn
Is somewhat injured by heat; thrasbinu
in full blast.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT hot weather
this week; corn doing well; wheat good
yield and good quality.
JohnsOn-CorD has maintained n 70.
markably fresh appearance, but will be
damaged II rain does not come soon:
some fall blowing done.
Lnncaster-Corn is growing and caring
well, but needs rain, most grain stacked
or thrashed; sugar beets wilt during the
day. "'
Nemaha-Week hot, with no rain:
thrashlng and stacking wheat and oats
IN progress; corn doing fairly we'll.
Nuckolls-Cor not injured BY heat:
wheat and oats are yielding ~splendidly;
hay is fine.
otoe-.Corn Ia forming ears, and needs
RAIN badly in most OF the county: late
corn uneven and beginning to tassel.
Pawnee-The hot weather this week
rolled corn and has baked the ground.
rain needed badly for corn and for early
stubble blowing.
Polk-About finished harvesting: oats
yielded fairly well; corn has not suffered
any. vet; pastures getting pretty short,
Internationally grain stacked pxcept
what will be thrashed out of shock.
wheat and oats yielded well; corr good
but needs rain.
Saline-Good week for thrashipp and
stacking grain; rather dry for corn.
wheat good quality and turning out
iairly we'll; corn will need rain soon TO
make a good crop.
Seward--Very hot and dry: corn 10 be.
ing injured every day that this contin.
ues without rain; harvest finished and
most OF the grain in the stack; thrashiDg
progressing; oats and wheat Yielding
we'll. s
Thayor-Wheat yielding we'll; corp
slightly damaged by the heat in parts of
corutv; early planted corn in roasting
ear.
Y%ork-Corn in tassel and silk, it has
good color, but needs rain badly; stack
ing and thrashing in progress.
~NoRTnEAsTERN SECTION.
nm ,,,.I L.. ---
three-fourths OF the wheat and oats cut: |
rye bsing stacked; corn beginning to sui,
Ter Tor wan OF rain.
Burt-Wheat, oats and harley good
crops OF excellent quality; bad week for
corn, nc rain at all; corn beginning to
roll.
boyd Wheat harvest well advanced, |
viii be a good yield and excellent quail
ity; corn Is caring out well.
Cedar-Corn caring out and looks fine: |
email grain about all cut; some thrash. |
light.
Colfax-Favorablc week and all crops
doing well.
Cuming-Some small grain to cut yet;
corn is still behing and needs rain; some
good corn aud plenty that Is not good;
hay fair; sugar beets looking well.
Dixon-About thres-iourths OF small
grain In shock; wheat rather a thin stand |
but well filled; oats above normal; corn |
tasseling, needs more rain.
Dodge-Wheat thrashing going on
and oats being cut: corr and pastures
a:e needing rain; wheat and oats good
quality aud fair yields.
Douglas-A hot week and all crops
need ram; oats, rye and wheat very un.
even in yield, some good, other only
fair. "'
Holt-Oat and harley harvest almost
over; good prospect that corn will be the
best ever raised in the county; corn IN
silk. :"
knox-'small grain nearly all in shock
crop. fair 10 very good; corn IL very
good, hoy is at its height.