Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-02


Des Moines, July Through inter-
views with men in attendance upon the
republican state convention who are
IN close touch with the crop conditions
IN their portion of the state it was
learned today that beyond doubt
iowa VIII have almost normal yield
OF corn this year. the crop being over
loo per cent better than it was last
season. General reports are to the eff
feet that hay. small grain, pasturage
and small fruits We're never better.T The
yield is good and the quality is excel
lent. Barring any fearful storms or
sudden change in the weather, Iowa
viii have prosperous crop of all that
the average farm affords.
On an average throughout the state
hardly more than 10 per cent of the
corn was replanted this spring. There
was great deal of late planting and
some of the acreage will not be planted
at all this summer.
| Taking it all in all,' as Colonel A.
Alternately of Mitchell county said this
morning, Il look for the promise of
golden harvest at the close of this
state convention remember when I
attended the first republican conven-
ton in 1856 the greatest topic of con-
versation was the crop outlook. When
came to the convention that year
| corn was about knee high. This year
| it is little shorter than l have ever
noticed 1t, and | have been measuring
1T by my knee ever since that conyen-
ton. Btu the stand is good The color
is good. The corn is surprisingly clean
and free from grass and weeds, when
the wet weather is taken into consider
alton. If the sun keeps on shining as
it has been l feel that by the time the
convention is over corn will be as high
as it ought to be in July. In Mitchell
county there will be lots of small
fruit
The opinion of Colonel Alternately
tallies with that of most of the men
who are now in the city. A few of
the expressions received from different
parts of the state are as follows:
L. L. Caldwell, DEBORAH, Winneshiek
county-"Co is little backward.
but the stand is good The color is
good and of late has been steadily i'm
proving. l hardly think 10 per cent
was replanted in my county We will
have little wheat, lots OF flax and oats
and pasture to burn. The yield of corn
| is more promising than it was at this
time last year."
John Campbell, Fort Dodge, Webster
county-"The Hon M. ID. O'Connell.
who has just toured the country for
the purpose of studying crops, says
| that we will have from rs to 80 per
cent of the average crop. In the low
lands corn was drowned out. This is
mostly confined to places where corn
ought not to be planted. The acreage
is good. Late corn is growing so fast
you can almost see it rise, In 1892
we had wet year, and at this time of
| the season corn was not so promising
as it is now. Much corn was not plant
| ed till June. Yet remember that corn
matured in less than ninety days. The
weather alone will fix the Yield. 1t
will be undoubtedly greater than last
year. never saw SO much timothy"
H. B. Hancock and P. L. Green, West
Union, Fayette county-"The outlook
at present would warrant the state.
ment that we will have nearly 20 per
cent more corn than last year if the
weather continues warm Corn will be
late, but it is growing rapidly. We new
er had such fine hay. About 10 per
cent Of the corn was replanted."
| Charles H. Talmadge, Fayette coun-
ty-"There is not more than two-thirds
of the full acreage. Corn is about a
foot high now"
DIR. ]. M. Davis, Cass county-"Th
outlook in Cass is not SO good as in
other parts of the state. Half the corn
is in bad shape. The floods knocked
out the crop. The corn on the high
lands is amazingly good, however, and
| look for the yield of last year at
least. ! would say that we will not have
over fifty per cent the regular crop of
apples. Small fruit has done we'll"
| George c. Call, Sioux City, Wood
I bury county-'There is good stand