Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-05
from now on the crops will not be ma
terialy damaged.

| iieVes he had the biggest yield of straw
berries from & fouraere patch, this
season. of any one in the state. He
marketed over nine thousand quarts
and is convinced that over four thous-
sand quarts rotted on the vines. If
| they netted him ten cents a quart he
Would have a fair per cent on his in
vcstment.
TAlbia Union.l
Mr. A. C. Watson, of Bluff Creek,
lodged n fine branch of one of his
dozen Ragg cherry trees in our office
last Friday. 1t is q fine bearer and
in connection with the early May aud
English Morella gives him ripe cherries
for two months. He has ~ trees In all
and has u fairly good crop.
davenport Lea,ier.l
When asked for facts concerning the
fruit and berry crop this season, .. c.
Woods of the Martin Moods company
gave q Leader representative the fol-
lowing facts: We are now having
the windup of the strawberry crop,
which was somewhat short. and the
Yield was slightly over half of what
would have been considered heavy
crop. Raspberries are plentiful in gen
eral, altho they have been scarce dur
ing the past few days on account of
the large amount of rain and conSe-
quent lack of sunshine to hasten their
ripening. There is q good crop of
raspberries, and they will be on the
market for ten days or two weeks yet.
The blackberry crop. which follows the
raspberries, promises a heavy yield.
Locally there will be but a light yield
of apples. altho reports from other
couraging nature. Ii this vicinity
a total failure.
[Des Moines Register and Leader.l
Irreparable damage to crops has been
done by cold weather and rain in
southwestern Iowa. according to Chair
man John Cownie of the board of con-
troll. Mr.. Cownie has recently returned
from inspecting the state institution
at Clarinda. He says that all the way
from Van Vert in Decatur county to
Clarnda, in Page county, distance of
about seventy-five miles. he saw but
few good pieces of corn. THE most of
the corn 1 saw said Mr.. Cownie, was
not more than five inches high, and 1t
will never make crop. In many neids
the farmers have not been able to pillow
the corn a single time and the weeds
are choking it out. l tell you, the con-
dition of the corn in that part of the
state is serious matter. Here IN CEN
trail Iowa the corn is looking we'll. On
the institution farm at Clarinda found
the crops good. There is much diff
Guilty in getting in the hay on account
of the wet weather. There has been
so much rain that the oats have be-
gun to lodge in many places"
New Sharon Star.1
The early planted corn appears to be
strictly in it, is in much better con-
dition than that which was planted
later. Last year the early planting
suffered most from the hot winds
Somehow you can't tell which is best
until after you have tried 1t, and then
1t is too late to mend mistakes.
Fairfield Ledger.]
Harvest opera tons, just fairly COM
menced, have been seriously interrupt
ed and threatened with much damage
by Il week of rain. Some fields OF
wheat and rye have been cut in various
portions of the county and most OF
these grains would have been out of the
way had the weather permitted. I'm
less clear skies come within q day or
two, they will suffer serious injury.
The ripening of oats has been delayed
by the damp, cool weather but much OF
the crop would be ready for the har-
yester with few days of sunshine. In
some localities the oats are down be-
cause of continued rains, but 1T is the
general opinion that they are not yet
seriously damaged. Clear weather must
come very soon, however. If small grain
crops do as we'll as they promised the
middle of June. Jefferson county corn.
as a rule, has not yet been hurt. Much
of it had been laid by" when the wet
weather came. But warmer and clearer
weather is needed If it is to do its