Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-29
BELIEVE BUMPER GRAIN CROP
WILL BE HARVESTED NEXT
FALL.
RAIN NOT NEEDED AS YET
BUT WILL BE SOON
Ground Declared to Be in Splendid
condition-Webster County Farmer
Says Small Grains Escaped Mater
iaI Damage in Freeze-other Iowa
News.

Fort Dodge, April ,29.-"The pros
poets for bumper grain crop were
never better" said Webster county
farmer, in the city Wednesday after
noon on business IT have heard some
discouraging reports but they do not
come from the man who is in the field
all the time, figuratively speaking.
Some of these rumors would make one
believe that the small grain crops were
in danger because of the apparent
dryness, but that is just plain talk. The
ground never was in better condition
for small grains and vegetables. We
farmers could ask for nothing better,
provided we have a little rain soon.
Rain has been needed badly, but the
snow fall of last week and the week
before helped us out nicely and was
really more beneficial to the crops than
a good coating Of fertilizer. The
weather can't hold off much longer. l
think everything is getting ready for
a good rain right now. That, Of course,
would be almost welcome, but so far
as damage from dryness and from the
. -
the small grain crops are far from be-
ing ruined They are further along
than usual, and everything is doing as
we'll as can be expected, and even
better"
Vegetable Crop is Safe.
The same view as taken by the ag-
riculturist in speaking of the small
grain crops may be held in regard to
the vegetable crop. The frost and
freezing temperatures, without doub BIT,
wrought some damage, but not the If
reparable kind Vegetable gardens
that had lourished thru the mild
weather of the early spring, in many
cases weathered thru the two cold
spells The more tender things sue
cumbed to the frost, but they were i'm
mediately replaced and with good
weather from now on there is little
doubt but hat the season in most
things will be just as early as usual.
While most of the vegetables Will
be in the market in as liberal abund-
ance as usual and just as early, the
frost shortened the season OF some OF
the earlier things.
Potatoes in Abundance.
well, we will have plenty OF po-
tatoes anyway" is remark that Is
heard quite frequently now. The po-
tato crop is indeed promising and the
frosts failed to injure it in any way
last week and the week before. There
was an abundance of potatoes last year
and the acreage in Webster county this
year is just as large and conditions are
even more promising.
Some cabbage plants were out when
the second cold spell came and they
WERE of course, frozen to the ground.
There is an abundance of plants and a
weeks difference in time when the
plants are first set out will not serious
ly delay the local product on the mar
ket
Farmers Arc Optimistic
Notwithstanding the wholesale des-
truction Of the fruit crop, which, in
Iowa, it is believed was exaggerated
in the reports circulated, the farmer
is optimistic. The fruit crop is partly
ruined and many gardner lost con-
siderable during the cold and frosty
weather, but the farmer thus far has
escaped. The ground is in splendid
condition and up to this point the dry
ness has not stopped the growth of
oats.
Rain is bound to come soon. 1t can
not hold off much longer and by the
time the crops are in condition where
it is needed, rain will fall-at least
this is the scheme of things which the
optimistic farmer has arranged.