Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-06-19
FARMERS ARE JUBILANT
LARGE CROPS INSURED ALL OVER
THE INLAND EMPIRE.
Pests and Vermin Are Dying and
the General Rains Give JOY to
the Wheat Rnisers.

Spokane, June 16.-Special dispatches
to the Spokesman-Review show that
rain has been general and the farmers
are jubilant. Walla Walla reports that
fall sown grain is beyond possibility of
damage from hot winds. There is the
largest prospective crop in the history
Of the valley. The rain will also give a
wonderful impetus to spring grain
hitherto somewhat backward Har-
Vesting commences in two weeks if
warm weather prevails between now
and then. The Palouse correspondent
wires: Fall grain was headong out
too short, threatening a short crop, but
the rain has saved it, and farmers are
jubilant. Spring grain has not been
injured materially, being fate and small,
but 1t needed rain. Crop prospects
are so per cent better today than any
time this season" From Cheney comes
the following: Fall grain was not in
immediate need of moisture, but the
rain is of inestimable benefit to spring
grain, also to timothy, damaged by
grasshoppers. Prospects for an i'm
menSe yield were never better this time
of the year. Grasshoppers had COM
menced to die. The rain will probably
accelerate their destruction" Cakes
dale reports: "A great deal of the late
sown grain has not yet sprouted but
with the soaking which the ground
has just received, there is no doubt but
what 1t will yet mature in time to be
harvested" This is the news from Col
fax: Late spring grain was needing
rain badly, and will now make a fair
yield. Farmers and merchants are in
splendid spirits. The rain being cold
las killed many young grasshoppers.
This rain, says the Chewelah CORE
SpOndent, assures the farmers of good
crops this summer and fall. Some of
the hay and grain on clay land was in
Jured by the dry weather, but is now
looking much better. Strawberries are
just coming in market. The yield will
be heavier than last season. The rasp-
berry crop promises to be very good
this year also" The rain will be a
great blessing to the Potlatch country,
as grain was beginning to suffer for
lack of rain Considerable uneasiness
was beginning to manifest itself con-
corning the crop prospects, but that has
given way to joyous smiles. The prom
Use still seems good for a larger crop
this year than last" Davenport re-
ports: Fall grain and early sown
spring wheat will now make a good
crop without further moisture, while
one good shower two weeks hence will
be sufficient to assure a large yield of
the late soWn grain. The farmers are
delighted" RitzVille reports: To-day
the prospects are better for a large
yield of wheat than ever before in the
history of the country at this time of
the year. About an inch of rain has
fallen here in the last "a hours. which
appears to be the salvation of many
thousand acres OF spring wheat
throughout the county. 1t is now be-
lieved that fall wheat will yield al least
40 bushels to the acre, and spring sOwn
will probably produce 25 on an aver
age" Rain is also general throughout
the western part of the Big Bend,
which will assure the largest crop ever
harvested in that section.