The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-19
CONDITIONS
FAVORABLE
TO CROPS
Cotton Is Well Advanced With
a Fair Growth.
WHEAT CROP Is GOOD
Early Planted Corn Is Being
Laid Away
WHEAT CROP is GOOD

Oklahoma City. o. T. June 1s--sectiOn
Director Strong issued the following bull
letin today:
Clear weather prevailed during the
week; light, local showers occurring on
the 18th. Day and night temperatures
were much warmer.
Temperature ranged over the section
from 101 10 50 degrees.
The conditions wee especially favora-
bic for the progress Of all kinds of farm
work. and as a result all crops were
cultivated and cleaned up, and placed in
good condition
Corn made a rapid growth and is look
ing we'll; IL is well cultivated and the
early planted corn is being laid by.
Cotton choppiDg is wen advanced. and
II is beginning to square; the plant has
wade fair growth, and is fairly well
cultivated.
Wheat is being rapidly harvested and is
in fine condition, and very favorable re-
ports as to results are given.
oats are filing and ripening, and some
fields have been cut.
Barley. rye, grass, fax, kafir and
broom corn, millet and gardens are do
ing well but some Of these crops are in
need of rain to properly develop them.
Early potatoes and blackberries are be-
ing marketed, with fair to good yields
Eardly peaches and apples are ripen-
ing, with promise of large yields.
Stock is in good condition.
Following are the reports from the diff
ferent portions Of the section, by nations
and counties:
CENTRAL DIVISION.
Usage, Kansas-Wheat harvesting in
progress. with prospect Of a large yield;
oat crop good; corn, cane and millet
looking very well
Kay-Whest harvest in fill progress;
may wheat almost all cut; wheat ex-
cellent; corn IN good condition and the
other crops doing well.
Grant-Wheat is being harvested; oats
getting ripe; corn olol1ing fire; kafar corn
in fine condition; all crops in good con-
dition; stock doing well.
Cfarfeld-Wheat harvest under full
headway; corn is making a fine growth,
smaller and later than usual; oats need
rain.
NobIe-Fine week for harvestingp; soft
wheat nearly all cut; quality is fine;
oats filling good, thin on the ground, but
better than expected; corn and cotton do
ing well; blackberries a good yield.
Pawnee-Wheat harvest in progress.
with good yields; oats and corn doing
well; cotton making slow growth; pota-
toes and stock doing well; blaskberries
being marketed.
Payne-Wheat is of a very good quail
ity and is being harvested as rapidly as
possible; corn being laid by and cotton
chopped and cultivated; corn, cotton,
castor beans. kafir corn, cane. and gar
dens doing well; pastures and hay good
Logan-Wheat harvest well advanced,
with good Yields Of a good quality; corn
and cotton growing fast; being cultivated
or laid by oats turning; grass good;
some hay marketed.
head well filed and very good; corn well
cultivated ard in good condition; cotton
doing wei, too cool nights; oats are
heading; thin on the ground; stock doing
well
vested; corn making rapid growth; all
other crops and stock in good condition.
OSlahoma-Wheat harvest in progress;
corn and cotton making rapid growth;
all crops in good condition; peaches ri
pening.
Idncoln-Theat harvest well advanced;
oats improving wonderfully; corn nearly
all laid by; cotton chopping IN pdogress
with early cotton sQuaring; some locali-
wrass; fruit dropping considerable.
Pottawatomie-W Wheat harvesting well
advanced; very good yield; cotton and
corn doing wen; some corn tasseling and
silldng; grass in fine condition; potatoes
being shipped by the carloads; stock do
ing wen.
Clevelsnd-All crops made good growth;
corn IS being laid by; cotton mostly al
chopped out: hay in good condition and
peaches are ripe.
Chickssaw-Over the northern portion
crops made good growth and farm
work is wei advanced; wheat is being
cut. corn in tassel and being laid by;
cotton growing well and is being culti-
waited the second time; hay being cut;
grfass fine; stock doing we'll; early fruit
rpening. good prospects.
over the central portion crops are do
ing wen and farm work IN rapid pjro-
gress; corn in tassel and being laid by;
cotton bekinniug to square and being
ch0r-ef. n1fIfet cane and kan7r corn and