Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 1, 1892, Page 5

NFBRASKA'S HARVEST| [CONTINUED FROM PIRST PAGE. ] Corn is looking wetl. The ctop will be about an average one. There are 92,000 acres of corn in the county. Potatoes will probably be under the average in yield, Nowrit Brxp—Prospects for good crops never wero botter. 'The heavy rain of Wec- nesday nieht has put all crops beyond danger. Corn, wheat, oats and other small grain are an fine condition. Douglas County, Miruarb—The rain insures an excellont corn crop and the outlook at present is much more favorable than last year. Oats are hardly an average crop, but’ the quality is very geod. Spring wheat is about an aver- age. Rye anda barloy are better, both in quantity and quality,” than last vear. The Tain promises to make the sugar beet orop highly satisfactory, as the stand is good and has been well fended. The outlook for tatocs is not flavtering; bugs and drouth ave been disastrous to this crop, W atenLoo—Corn will go forty-five bushels per acre, und oais thirty. No wheat, barley or flax grows here to amount to anything. Garden seed crop will average with any year. Fillmore County. Grarrox—Fall wheat harvested; part of 1t 1o the stack; finest crop ever raised in the | county, both in quality and quantity; acre- | age is larger than for several years. A few | loads murketed show a yield of thirty-seven busbels per acre. Othors estimate their crop at forly bushels per acre. Oats will nov average over half n crop; acreage less than former years. t'lax crop light, acreage below tho averago. The prospects for early lanted corn are excollent; the heavy rain of hursaay night und morning will give it vigor. Potuto crop is unusually wood. Rye, yiela good: acreage small, Barley has a small acreage; yield not known. Tamo hay, immense. >asturnge excellent. Oniowa—Winter wheat just harvested; larzestcrop ever grown in this county. Oats variously estimated at from one-half to threc-fourths of a crop. Heavy rains have revived the corn, which seems nearly up to the averuge for this season of the year. A great many farmers sre intending to thresh their wiieat from the shock and place it on the market at once, Franklin County. Fraxkrix—Corn 18 looking unusually well. Most fields are tassoling and the heavy rains Insuro a large yield. - Oats, wheat and rye are mostly harvested and tho yield has never been bettor. The acreage was unusually large this senson. Potatoes are a fair crop, but not equal to last year. Crops of all kinds have been well tended and the present year will exceed in amount of farm produce raised here any year of tho county’s exist- ence, Rivertox—Corn has never looked better than 1t does this year. Kye, winter wheat and oats are harvested and extra good. Soriug wheat and flax arc a litde better than an average, und potatoes about an average orop. ontier County. MoorerieLp-+-Crops are ten days late, but wheat, oth spring and winter, is fully up w0 the average. Corn promises good. Not many oats raised, but the crop is fair, StockviLLe—Corn 18 still a little late, but I8 growing rapidly and will be equal to crop of last yeor. Winter wheat is a heavy yiela, aud there is a larger acreago than ever bo- fore. Spring wheat will be a good average ield. Oats are not as good as last year, Vot a largo amouut of barley and flax raised In this section. but what there is will bo a go0d yield. There will be a good crop of po- tatoes, those on the market here so far are largo and of good quality. Joseoh B. Wil- on, residing six miles south of Stoekville, has threshed his red winter wheat and records o yield of over forty bushels per acre. Furnas County, Beaver City—Corn is In fine condition, perhaps ten daye late. Increased acreag: vor cent. Oats will vield a good average crop; not extensively grown. Winter wheat in shock, and a No. I crop In every respect. Spring wheat, good average. Barley and flux, httle grown, but in good condition. Potatoes promise a full crop; quality extra five. Alfalfa is in fino condition; second crop rendy to harvest. A very much in- creascd acréago of winter wheat will be 80wn by the farmers this fall, Oxrorp—Farmers are engaged in harvest- ing and threshing & heavier crop of small grain than ever produced in the Republican vailey. The berry 1s plumpand of the ve best quality. Corn was never wore prom ing. Abundant rain and warm weather sure the | reest crop ever produced in the county. A heavy rain the 27th inst. removes any possibility of damage from dry weather, Potutoes will also yield heavy and a bountiful crop of everything 1s assurcd. The acreage of crops this year is unusually large. Gage County, BLUE SPRINGS—Wheat harvest is finished snd considerablo threshing has been done. o yield is the best evor known, somo pieces going as high as forty-five bushels por acre, the averago not less than thirty-five bushels. Oats ripened somewhat prema- turely by tho excessive hoat; the probablo yield' will not exceed thirty bushels. Corn Wwill average thirty-five bushels, But little bariey 1s grown and the crop is poor this soason. Flax {s about hali u crop; probably ive or six bushels por acre. Early potatoes ore fair size and moderate crop. Late potatoes do not prowise well, although the rain may revive them enouzh to produce a partial cron. Fruits of nearly all kinds aro o tailure this scason, Gosper County, Eiwoon—Corn bas been making a very rapid growth in the past month and bias fair tobe alarger crop than lust year, The whent barvest has already begun, and whils the vield per acre is not quite ns large as last yeur, the increased acreage will give the county a5 many bushels. Oats and potatoes ure a good crop and everything seoms to in- dicate that Gosper connty will sell more pro- duce than before, We' have had copious rains in tho lust fow days and have no more fears from the drouth, Lon County, Aviors—Thera is a smull increase in the Acreage of grain in this county over that of last year. 'The crop is divided about. as fol- lows: Corn, 110,000 acre: oats, 46,000 acres; whoat, 12,000 acres; flax, 5.000 acres: rye. barloy, ote., 3,000 acres. The condition of the wheat crop is much above the average of {)rvvmus years. Corn, while about ten days ater than last year, is in splendid coudition and promises ‘an oxcellent yield. Oats is short and will not make an average yield, while other crops probably will make an av- erego production. - A good rain succeeded by cloudiness ard lower tomperature has dis- peliea all fears on the score of drouth, and t 18 now the gencral feeling that Hamilton county is assured of a splendid crop. S10ckuan—Winter wheat, a larger area than ever bofore harvested, will avernge twenty-five bushels par acre’ The first fiold threshed - this neighborhood exceedea thirty bushels per acre. Spring wheat fair crop. Oats s short, less than an average crop. Flax is less than the usual acreage and tho crop is anout the average, Corn is two weeks behind tho norma There is a good stand and the flelds are free from weeds. Tho ereat rain of Weduosday night Insuros a good crop. Tame bay is & good erop, while the prairie grass is short. Hau County, GRAND T81AND—T'he rain was of almost in- estimanlo value to Hall county. Corn is as- suming & very healthy color and a large crop 18 a certainty. Sweet corn is u good cou- dition aud tho canniug fuctory will have a ®ood run. Outs and wheat dre a hitle short, the intense boat of (he past ten days ripen: Ing tho grain too fast. Harley aud rye yielded immensely. Flax is sverage and potatoes large aud wili yield w plentiful re turn. Beets nevor ware in a finer coudilion? Harlan County. Alyi—Corn 18 in excollent conaition, fully us good us at this tmo last year, whilo | the ucreage is lureor. An abunaanee of rain | bas fallen in tho last twenty-four hours. Whoat, rye and barioy are being barvested; while the yiela will not excoed that of last your the quality 1s much better, thero being yery littlo weedy small graln in this county. Conservativo estimatos place the crop of Small yrain this year equal 10 that of last yoar, Outs is excollent, Barly potatoes are | 8 Rood 0rop: the lato oues wero sligntly 10- Jared by dry weather, Late raius wiil oring them fully up 0 tho averigo, HLEANS—Wheat will avorage 18 bushels, | oata 50 bushols aud rye # bushels ]lu‘\:u; acre. Potatoes and corn sinco the rain will | ¥leld about the samo as last yoar, KrrunLioaN Cirv—Harlan county 1s bauncr county for erops this vear. fmmense. Just bad u fioe ralo asa the Corn is everys THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ‘SUNDAY body is happy. Never In tho history of this county has everything looked so prosperous as new. Holt County. ATKrsox--Oats have about all been hare vesied and show a siight decrease in yleld under last year while the acreago was about the same. Wheat, is just being harvestea and promises to make abovta two-thirds ©roD s the borrs did not fill out well as there has not been anv rain to speak of for ovor three weeks. Barley and flux are not erown here to any great extent yet but ‘he few fialds promise u full-crop. Rye is doing the vest of all and many tlolds will turn out twenty-five or thirty bushels to the acre. Corn will bea latacrop, but will mature well unloss thero comes an early frost. The acreage is larger than evor tefore. Potatoes | promise 1o be the bestever known hero. Holt county loads them all in quantity and quality of wild hay, and the crop this year is equal to any in quality and the tonuage this year will fur exceed any previous year. Jefforson County. Famnory—The 103,720 acres planted in corn in this county 18 an increase of 9,780 acres nver the acreace of last year, and the present condition_is up to the average of the last five years. Oats is in better condition than a month ago and fully 10 per cent bet- or than last year. Tho wheat acreage. is 450 acros. in 1501 it was 16,370, In condi- tion 1t is 10 per cent above an Average year. Waent is all harvested and stacked in good condition. Flax is an average yield. Pota. toes are ALOUL AN AVOraga crop. Sugar beets are doing well and promise a satisfactory return, SteeLe Crry—Wheat s all barvested and mostly stacked. Some threshed tests sixty- four pounds to the bushel. Corn is doing nicely, tasseling out, and will make a big crop, Oats is being harvested; will not go over 75 per cent. Very littlo flax raised. Johnson County. Trcumsni—Since the heavy rains of this week the corn has begun to improve rapidly and the crop will be fully up to the average. Oats did poorly: it may run ten bushels to the acre. ~ Wheat did exceediogly well, ran- ning (rom twenty to forty bushels per acre. Little or no barley aa flax is grown hero this year, Erk Citeek—DProspects for corn aro now gooU since the rain. Oats fair; whent ex- collent; barloy and flax_good, what tnere is of it. Potatoes ouly fair. Applo orop is shim, Kearney County, MixpeN —Corn has reccived rain at tho proper time and 1s in splendid condition, Swall gram_crop will bo nearly as good s last year. Potatoes will be somewhat short in quantity, but quality will be first cluss, Wednesday night's ten-hour steady ruin puts the ground in splendid.condition and insures good fall pasture. Keith County, OaaraLLA—Corn is just beginning to tassel and looks good color and strong; plenty of rain so far. Oats short but well headed out and will make a fair averago crop. Barley is in the same fix. Wheat is above the average vield and of a suporior quality, and a lurge acreage. Povatoes, a good crop. Knox County. Niosrara—Crops ave doing fairly well, though corn needs rain in a large part of the county. Local rams havo holped portions. Oats is short. Wheat will be fairly zood, Barley 13 good. Flax, large crops of which aro sown in the cast purt of the county, need rain. Ciikranrox—Corn. fair crop; wheat, good, weil filled; oats, short; potatoes, fair crop; willet and flax, not very good. Scarcely any rain in the past month. Farmers are busy narvesting. Lincoln County, Norti Prarre—Harvesting of small grain has begun and the barley and rye are heavy and will yleld twenty bushels per acre. Spring wheat was injured by thedry weather in June ana July, aud the yield will bo light, not to exceed fifteen bushels per scre. Po- tatoes and othor root crops will be an average crov. Corn is late, but Is making splenaid progress, and recent rains make a beavy crop almost certain, as the growth is rank and in good condilion to ear. We had a heavy raiafail on the 27th inst., amounting . to nearly three inches. Logan County. GaNpY—Rye is fully upto tho standara. Wheat is good, though not so heavy gen- erally as_last year. Oats fair. Barley me- dium, Potatoes always a_good, heavy crop. No threshing done yet. Wheat harvest just beglunin CexTiaL Crry—Corn i8 late on_account of the backward spriog, but the crop will go at least 75 per ceut of an average. Oats will make about S0 per cent of an average. Wheat acreago is small, but tho yold is good, and the quality first class. Barley and rye are as good as wo have over had. Rye hus yieldod as high as fifty-two bushels to the acre. Flax was not sown very exten- sively, but will be about tho average. Pota- toes will bo short. Madison County. MupisoN—In the south half of this couaty small grain will be rather above an average crop. Harvesuing Is a week or ten days later than last year, as but very livtle graia is now cut. The late rains have practically insured tho corn crop and at present the outlook is very favorable. Winter wheat 15 haryested and an excellent yield is reported. Very little flax was sown thls year 1o this vieinity owing o the poor crop iast year. Potatoos aro of very fair sizo but the yield will bo less than usual, thero being but few in each hill. NEwMAN Grove—Thoe crops on an ayerage werc never iu a_ better condition. Wheat and oats are nearly ready for harvesting and barley is nearly all cut. Small wrain will yield equal to any crop over raised in the county. Corn is & little Iate, but if frost holds” off thore will be an'immense yiold. Hay has suffered some, but tho lato rains will insure s faircrop. Potatoos are late, but promise a medium yield, Small fruit 18 below the general average. Merrick County, Crapsax—Tho crop prospect is fuily equal to that of one year ago. Corn is uniform in color, but uneven in size: somo plantod as Iate as June 10 is doing splendidly. Fali rve is being threshed and hauled to warket and tae quality is far above that of preceding years and the yield beyond expectations. Several pieces of fall whoat were sown as a experiment and tho result has been surprising as to both stand and quality, whicn is very good. Spring wheat is up to the average and like ail crops the present yesr is late, Oats promiso good results, the acreage amounting to that of former years. The har- vest has only commenced. ~Thero is & vory small amount of barley sown and the samo may be said of flax.” Potatoes will fail far below tho yleld of last year, s the planting was small in acres and the hot, dry wind and weather of tho preceding two Weoks have done great damage. ‘The lato rain was badly uneedod. Erairio hay will be up to the aver- age. Nan Fuirsron—Corn, oats, wheat, flax, rye and potatoes were never botter. Itye is boiug threshed, showing good yield. Oats and wheat are now belng harvested in good condition and well filled. Corn has a good big growth aud is of good color. Tho hewvy Talus the last week insure a big orop of corn, Nemaha Count Peru—A heavy rain fell Wadnosday. Crops in the sastorn part of Nomaha county are good. Coru is tassoling and beznning 1o silk, with good prospects for a lurge crop. Wheat is all in the shock, the neads appear well fillod. ~ Oats Is being eut, will not bo & largo yield. Karly potatoos aro poor; late potatoes are doing excellently, Nuckolls County. Neisox—Wheat is good. Most of it Is harvested and thresbing has begun, Some flelds are yielding over thirty busbels to the acro. The quality is excollont aud the uoreage large. I'no 0ats 18 ratbor sho probably bo about half a erop. rathor backward, but will be a foir crop. The heavy rainfall of Wednesday makes prospocts much better. Surerios ~The recent ran has placed the corn boyoud all chances of & failure, The estimated acrezge la this county is 300,000, aud tho vield will be forty bushols per acre. Acreage of wheat 7,000, yield estimated at thirty bushels to the acre. Ouno farmer threshed forty-seven bushels of,wheat to the acre. ‘There aro 20,000 acres of oats aud the vield will bo thirty bushels. Prospects of a Dotato erop are good. Hauny—There will bo an immense yield of corn. Oata fell short. Thousands of bushels of whoat are bewng thresbod, the yield por acre greatly exceeding that Of last vear. Wheat tostod sixty-four pounds per bushel. But litle barley or lax was sown this year. o County, | Potato erop wiil fali a littlo below the aver. ugo yield, Otoe County, Wheat was never better than Sowe farwers repory over forty SYRACUSE this yoar, bushels to the acro. Barloy is a_little under the uverage and oats are light. The late rain makes certain the corn crop. Dussar—Corn 8 adout two-thirds of a orop, oats fair, barioy very poor. Fall wheat 1s excellent. going forty 1o forty-two bushels to the mcre, whilo spring whoat 15 not so | good. An excellent ten-hour rain has falien, which will 1usure & good corn and potato crop. Pawnee County, Pawser Ciry—Corn fs backward, but with the fine rain falling that has fallen the prospect is good for an average crop. Oats will be three-fourths of n_crop. Wheat will averago twenty-five bushels to the acre, But iittlo barloy and Hax nave beod sown. Pota- toes fair. 'The heavy rain was general throughout the vounty. Perkins County, Mipnin—Coplous, sonking rains assuro a most vountiful erop. Corn never looked as well, seventy-five to ninety bushels por acro: oats, only fair, cighteen to twenty-five; £pring wheat, eighteen to twenty-eight: win- ter wheat, twenty-cight to forty-five; rye, thirty to fifty; bariey, fifty-eight to seveniv- five. * Poatoes and all root vegetables enor- mous. In the county there is an increase of 40 por cent in acreage. Platte County, Moxnor—This county was blessed with a vountiful rain_which will revive our pros- pects for a corn crop, Corn has suffered severely with the dry hot weather and with the iost favorable weathor will not make to exceed 85 per cont of & crop. It is just com- mencing to tassel out and is fully two weoks late. Oats will make about 7 per ceny of a crop. Fall wheat, vye, barles and potatoos aro a full average crop and good quality. Husreiney—All kinas of grain look fine in this vicinity, Wheat is unearly all out and averages twenty to twenty-five bushels to the acre, barley cighteen to twenty, oats forty to forty-five, Corn is doing well and has all indications of a large crop. Potatoes promise very poorl; Duxca 1ot weather came to an end Weanesday at 2 o'clock . m.. when a heavy rain foll. "We haa three heavy rains beforo dark and at 11 o'clock 1t commonoed ralning from the northeast and rainad untii 9 o'elocic Thursday morniog. It is conceded by all that corn is now assured. Ocoxre-—-Corn is a little oackward, but since the fine showers prospects ara fine for agood yield, Wheatis fine. Some pieces will yield thirty to forty bushels per acre. Oats are light: may average thirty bushels per acre. Barley 15 very poorand will not average with last year's” crop. Pouatoes ara about a usual ero Pierce County, PrAINvIEW—Crops in this county are below the average. Coru shows about an average crop, oats about one-half crop, wheat about an averago, ryo above the avorage, Shoutd the dry woather contiuue corn will be beiow the average. 7 Phelps County, Horpreer—Whoat and_other small grain are about all harvested. Fall wheat is espec- ially fine. One farmer roalized forty bushels to the acre, and a great deal is estimatea at thirty-tive' bushels. Oats, rye, barley and flax will yield equally as gooa. Corn at present is looking fine and with tho late rain the yiold will be uoparalleloa. Earmers are greatly encouraged. Tho sugar beet inaus- try that bas been 1ntroducea will no doubt béa success, Quite a large acreage is now growing. 1k County. STrOMSBURG—Tho crops of this county will average nearly as well as [ast year, with pos- sibly o few éxceptions on small ‘grain, A large acreage of corn was planted, and although about two weeks later over prev- vious yoars tue crop will yeu be good. 1t is making a rapid growth, is”generally in zood condition and most fields are tasseling out. Harvesting of outs is in progress and tho yield is reported good, although in some por- tions damage has beoa caused by rust. The potato crop will average good throughout the county. (lonsiderable flax has been sown and looks well and prospects are thut the crop will be as good as the average. Red Willow County. INDIANoLA—The recent hot weather was torminated Woduesday afternoon by the first rain of tho season, there being a pro- cipitation of two and oue-half inches. Rye is ull cut and promises a heavy yield. Wueat is avout half cut and will fully equal the yield of last year; the quality is better, how- ever, and the acreago greater. Oats is a fair crop, but the acreage 15 small. Baurloy is not much grown but looks woll. Flax good. Tho recent heavy rain insures an enormous potato yield. Corn, although backiwara, is growing very rapaly. Most fields are now tasseling and the farmers ex pect & rousing crop. Rock County. Basser—-Wheat will not make more than one-balf or a twu-thirds crop. Oats and rye are very fair; prospects for a big corn crop aro good; potatoes and vegetables of ail kinds are looking finely. Tho hay crop is one of the largest the county has ever nad. Saline County. WiLnER—The wheat crop of Saline county will uverage thirty to thirty-five- bushels to tho acro the county over, and is tho finest in quality ever raised here. Oats will be & light crop, but of good quality, and will probably average thirty bushels. ' Very little barloy and flax raised hore. Cora is very uneven; some good, other picces very poor indeed.” With favorable conditions from this on will probavly be two-thirds of a crop the county over. Potatoes are not promising. Tame hay is tho best crop we ever had. Friexb—Generally corn has not suffored by tho dry and hot weather, but has mado a very rapid growth and is now beginning to sot ears, Tho acreage of this grade of corn will be very much below that of last year. Oats has sulored from dry woather and tho yield will be low and the quality not very zood. Wiater wheat is all harvestea and in this county is the banuer ecrop. Two ficlds in this locality show a yield of forty bushels per acre, ana a tostod weight of sixty-threo pounds to the bushol. Thero is vory little flax or barley sown. Potatoes have suffored from the hot and dry whather, and the crop will bo light. Tho drouth was broken Thurs- day moraing by one of the granaest rains ox- porienced for years. No wind bas accom- panied iv, and ub to the time of writing three inches of water has fallen and it is still rain- g quite hard. Cugte—Saline county had a thorough soaking down Wednesday afternoon and all last pight. Crops are good. Corn has boon making immense growth for the last LWO weeks., The hot winds of the last few days have done somo damage, but ot enough on the whole to make aoy sbortage of crop. which will be 8 good average. Winter whost is being threshed all over the country, and turning out from thirty-one to fifty-two bushels pec acro. E. F. Stephens had 100 ncres in winter wheat, south of this city and oast. One field, bottom land, averaged fifty-two bushels pér_acro by woight, and the upland forty-nine bushols. Ho sold the entiro crop av 52 conts por bushel taken from the threshing machine. OAts Aro being cut now aud aro 8 fair crop. Barley is . poor crop this year. Not as much flix has been sown as usual, and the crop is only fair. Potatoss aro ouly @ fow in the bill, and the rain of today 18 00 late to help tho crop out. Tame hay 1s good, Prairio bay short and light on the ground. Sarpy County. Grersa—Corn acreage is up to tho average and looks well. Johu Weetn threshed his winter wheat wbich yialded an average of wirty-five bushels nor acre. Spring wheat acroage is lurger than usual and 1s-being bar- vested: strdw is short, but heads are large and well filled. Oats is an averago crop, but varley will not yiold more than hall & crop, ‘There is a lurger acreage of potatoes than usual and the early varietiss are excellent in quality. Fruit of ail kinds is almost a total failuve oxcept grapes, Tamo and wild hay is all right, but miliet 18 very short. Rain has been falling for the past twelve hours (Thursday) continuously. PariLLiox—Since the rains of Wednesday and Thursday the corn crop 1n this county is all right and will muke s full crop. Wheat is turoing out woll. Oats is short in the straw but good heads, Lato potatoes will show up well. The sugar beets planted in this county are all looking finely, and will encourage the planting of a large acreage next season. Suunders County, Monse Brurr—Cora whilo not quite as far advanced as usual at Lhis timy of Lho year is looking good, tho heavy raln having dome in good timo to'insure a fair crop. Whoat, rye und oats are il about an average crop. Po- tatoes aro cut stort by dry weather. Fruit of all kinds will bo a poor crop, all grain is balug barvestea now. VaLpakAiso—~Winter whoat s about all harvested in this violnity and is a splondid crop; but one fiold has basn threshod yot aud thal turaed out twonty-eight bushols per o ) At cors nnd of excellant 'quality, Barly oats is ova but the later 0at Wil be lighter on ount of tha hot dry weather. Corn which bas peen rightly planted and oultivated has s100d tho drouth and With faverable weather will make a good viell, the listed corn gen- erally boMg the poorost. No barley in this nity. Karly sownflax is looking well but the late flux is poor. arly potatoes are very scarce and late ones dif' not make more than half a stand, 5o will be & poor crop at bost. This report is of tho yicinity of Valparaiso, comprising parts of Shunders, Butler, Sew- ard and Lancastor doufitios, The acrenge | compared with that of last season is about as follows: Wheat, 125; aats. 100 corn, 1103 flax, 90; potatoes, 8.’ Prairia hay will be light. Nearly two inotios of rain have fallen up t0 this time sinca 5.0'clook . m. Thurs- day, which will help tho 1ate oats and m.ke a big difference in the corn. Seward Connty, SewArp—The winter wheat crop of Sow- ard county was harvested and saved in fine shape. There was vhe largest acreage ever harvested in tho county, and the qualty the bost. A few pieces have beon thrashed, and the yleld runs from twenty to forty-five bushols per acre. The general averago will be at least thirty bushels per acre. Spring wheat is now being harvested, but the acro- age is small and the quality not near so good as winter whoat, IRyeis a fine crop, with an increased acrouge over last year. The late rains have improved the condition to such an extent that wo will have am average crop. Very little barloy or tiax is raisea in this county. The potato crop promises well. Corn 1s doing well, und the crop will ve an average one, with adecreased acrcage, our farmers sowing more winter wheat and rye and planting less corn than in former yoars, The hay crop is excellent, and most of it 1n stack in good shapo. Urica—The prospect for an sbundant crop is oxceedingly promismg. The dry, hot Wwother did somoe little damage to corn, but a heavy rain on Thursday brightened it up in fine style and it will produce an average vield. The wheat crop s very large. Outs has been shortened somo by the dry weather, but the head is well filled and will yiéld a very good ~crop. Potatoes ure looking fine and well, and will doubtloss yiold a fair LironrieLn—Corn promises an_abundant yleld. Oats is very unoven, but an average crop, Thero is not so groat an acroago of wheat as last year and tho crop not ovenly distributed, but will yield better than an average crop. Barloy and flax very littla sown; flax reports from tnose that have any are exceptionally good. Early potatoes aro scarce, but 1ate onos promiso well. Stanton County. STANTON — A coplous rain visited this county and vicinity Thursday night, which, while not badly needed, will produce a material increase in small grain and corn. FUST 1, 1892, dry woather and will maks woout throe- fourths of a crop. Spring whoat 1s good and has roceived little or no injury from the dry weather, while winter wheat is splendid, soms farmers who have already threshed realizing as nigh as thirty bushels per acro. There is much wild bay land 1n this jocality and grass was never better. Yesterday a bailstorm, probabl; extending over only & few squaro miles, struck this, tha southeast corner of Nance county, materially injuring though not desstoying the corn cron. Howert, Neb., July 20.—|Special to Tnw Bie. ] —Crops in the southwest part of Cum- ming, southeast part of Stanton and north part of Colfax counties: Corn good but threa wecks lato; oats half crop; barley good; wheat good, heavy crop; flax, fair; pota- toos, a good many planted, will be good what there is, but erop will be very small. Waico, Neb., July 20.—(Special toTus Bk | ~The flelds of winter wheat adjacent 1o this town are something to be proud of. The average vield per acro is about thirty- five bushels, and of » very fine quality, but in some cases the yield greatly nxceeds this as in the following: William Hohnbaum has threshed and sold forty-four bushels per acre: S, B. Stevens forty-six bushels from land which he bought within tho last year at loss than &30 per acre, and A. K. Brubaker from a vield of twenty-two and a half acros has marketod 1,085 bushels or about forty- oight bushels per acre. One of the throo olovators oporated hore has contracted as high as 10,000 bushels of wheat in a day. The fine rain of yesterday has assured an exoellent crop of corn and farmers and mer- chants alike rejoice over the present outlook. 5 Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for chil- dron teething produces natural quiet sloep. 5 cents a bottlo, V stiien MILITARY MATTERS. Camp Elkins, Trumpoter Colin, troop K, joined his troop recently. Privates Koutz and Price, also wvo recruits, have joined troon G, Sixth cavalry. Privates Leahy and Wallaoe, troop K, also Private Arthur Keele, Sixth cavalry, de- serted a fow days ago. Private Sullivan, troop B, and Privatos Burns, Kittlo and Homstreet joined their respective statious July 19. Lieutenant B. H. Cheever, who returned to Fort Niobrara from leave of absence re- 18 expected out here soon. Private Shiman, troop A, Sixth cavalry, was discharged per expiration of term of sorvice July 17. Shiman had been a good soldier and a saving man, so when he Wft ko carried something near $00 in his pockets. Second Lieutenants Short and Phillips, Sixth cavairy, with a detachment of five eu- listed mon, loft this camp on July 9, returned July 15, bringing with them a wagonioad of game. Harvesting has just fairly commenced in this county and farmers aro reporting pros- pects for small grain yield to be very flatter- ing. s Thayer County, Cugster—Wheat in this vicinity, which embraces the south central part of Thayer county, Nebraska, and tho north centrai part of Republic county, Kansas, is all cut and a cousiderable part of it stacked. Some of it being throshed out of the shock yields from twenty to thirty bushels to the acre and the quality 1s very fino. Oats is very poor, short straw and rusted, and will not make half a crop. No barley raised to amount to anything. There has boen very little fax sown this year, und that is not looking very . Potatoos are not doing very well, too much dry weather, butas i hasrained today the late oues may do botter. Corn, whero it was well cultivatea diring the dry weather, is doing well, although &t least two weeits behind, and will require a late fall to fully mature. There is very littlo tasseled out yot and whero 1. has tasseled the oxtrems heat of the past two weeks has damaged it some. The crop is yery uneven, both in sizo and stand, and under the most favorable circumstances cannot possily make more than two-thirds of a full erop. Rye is a full crop, but not very much raised. HenroN—The recent heavy rains make crops safo for the present. Corn very good. Oats, three-fourths crop. Wheat nover better quality, will ayerage thirty bushels to the acro. Barley poor. ¥lax very poor, very little sown, - Ry very good, Potatoes medium. Thomas County. Treprorn—Corn looks well and promises agood yieid. —Oats good, but a small acre- age. Wheat good, but hardly average with last year. Barley good, but a small acreage. Potatoes doing well; new potatoes on tho market, Rye Is excellent and promises a large yield. Valley County. Onrp—Corn is from seven to ten days late, but the stand is good and will make an un- usually large crop. Wheat is uneven in stand but will yield a moro than average crop. It israther thinon the ground but the heads are large and heavy. Oats 1s short in the stand and will make a light crop. Rye and barley aromoro than aver- age crops. Potatoes fair, not as forward as usual but bas time to make a good crop and the lute rains will help it. Wayne County, WayxE—The croos of this connty are very good, taken as & whole, and especiaily the large wheat crop, which is very fine and of an excollent quality. While there are some flelds of corn that are not in very good con- dition the crop will be an average one. The rye crop was very good. Oats and flax wiil be about a three-fourtns yield and potatoss the same. Farmers aro focling jubilant over the prospects owing to the fine rains of Wednesday night. Webster County, RED CLOUD—A big rain visited this portion of th state Thursday ovening and continued all night, Crops of all kinds are assured. A nicer rain we uave not had this year, and 1t came jusc when 1t was necded. HiLi—A vainfall of one and fthree- oighths to one and one-hatf inches assurcs a ood corn ctop. Tho acreage 1s large, the increase being about 10 per cont, About 40 cent of the wheat area 1s fall wheat, Very little threshed, but enough to show that fall wheat will go twenty-five to forty bushels per acre. Little change in the oat area, aud the crop will be a fair one, Lye is good but the average is small. Bariey, rood berry, small average and abont half & crop, Potatoes are rather late, but looking well and doing well. Flax faié, but the average is very small. Early sprlug wheat will go ten to twenty bushels; late, five to twelve, York County, Yonk—Wheat 1s splendid. Fall wheat is averaging thirty-five bushels per acra, Osats is short and thin and will bprobably make about three-fourths of aorop. No flax on account of lateness of sor.og. Barley good. Corn prospects are not 5o good as last year, but will make a fair crop if favored with a late fall. Rye is good. Potatoes are extra good, 1t is raining here and has been since last Wednesday night at about 5 o'clock. It woow 12 m. This will be a great help to the corn. In a General Way, Epaik, Neb., July '20.—The condition of all kinds of crops in Clay aud Nuckolls coun- ties is excolleut. Corn/is a little later than usual, but Is putting forth & vank und rapid growth, and with anyining like favorable weatlier for the balitice of the season the yield will be very beavy. Oats is a little short, but th qualiuy 1 good. 'The acrcage of winter wheat is fully 50 per cent greater than ever before, Some threshing of this grain bhas been dono ond the yield reported is from tweaty to forty-five bushels per ucre, the qualty bolug excellent. Potatoes will e a fair crop. Very: ltte flux or barley was sown here. SiLvek Cieek, Neb., July 20.—(Special to Ik BEE. | —In portions'of Morrick, Nauce, Platte and Polk counties, adjacent to Silver Crook, corn is in fine gondition and the late rain bus removed the danger of drouth and virtually assured a magnilicont crop. Oats has beon materiallv ivjuced by the continued Lieutenant ¥. G. Hodson, regimental adjutant of tbo Sixth cavalry, has been ap- polnted aide-de-camp to General Carr, The lieutenant will follow the general to Wash- ington as soon as he can settle up his affairs at Camp Elkins, Wyo. Fort Robinson. From tne looks of the surrounding country we expect to have the finest hay ever fed au this post. First Lisutenant John H. Gardoer, Ninth cavalry, loft to join his troop in the field near Suggs, Wyo. Coutractor Jewett has turned over, com- pleted, the new quartermaster and commis- sary store house. Tomorrow seven men, just released from the guardhouse, go to join thoir troops av Camp Bettens, Wyo. The first of tho commissary stores, from the old buiiding to the new warehouse, com- meuced moving today. ‘Tne south ward of the hospital is being re- shingled and the roof the whote building is recoiving a fresh coat of mineral paint. ‘The Sixth cavalry, encamped near old Fort, Fetterman, Wyo., get all thelr guarter- master’s supplies from this post. Kor the past ton days the sound of the mowing machine was heard on our two parades, resulting in @ surface smooth enough for a lawn tennis court. A mateh game of baseball is on the tapis between companies C and D, Eighth Iu fantry, which promises to be interesting. We wish you would send *Sandy” to write it up for us. It is understood tnat Mr. Gungle, formerly band leader ot the Twenty-fourth infantry, is to be enlisted as leader of the Ninth cav- alry band, vice Waters, dischurged on bis own application. B. S. Paddock, post trader at this place and also in the fiold with tho Ninth cavalry was at homo for a coupio of duys last week and left for “the front” Monday morning so as 10 bo on hand when tho paymaster dis- tributed a fow thousand umongst tho troops. Mrs. Dr. Tempany, tho wifc of Veterinary Surgeon Tempany, Ninth cavalry, was the recipient of an elegant carving sct at_the nhands of a committeo of the Social cluv. Mrs, ‘Pempany had built all the cake for the boys, and we undersland thers was & neat pre- sentation speech by the chairman of the com- mittee, Sergeant Mackenzie, aud a reply by the good lady. The Social club picnic eclipsed anything of the kind over attempted here. The company worked three weeks clearing out underbrush on an island of White river. The ground was as level as a billiara table, and for the dancing portion was coverad by threo tar- paulins strotched as tight as the canvas would bear. A music stand was built ana a fiagstaff erccted, on which was our starry emblem forty feet above the highest trec, A tablo fifty feot long, with an L of thirty foet occupied one side and away down in one corner close to the river was an ice cave in which reposed several kogs of Scnlitz’s best. The supply of eatables, ice cream, 1ced tea and lemonade was mexhauste ible. Tug BEE correspondent was taken in naud by the committee and forced to sample all tho gooa thiugs, such as lemonade, ica cream, etc., principally etcetera, which, by the way, was nice aud cold At 1D, m. hacks woro sent around to the houses of the married folks to convey them tothe grounds, and at 8 p. m. they were on hand to carry them bome sgain, Cuprain Corliss, the *‘Pater” of Company C, Eighth foot, was on hand nearly all aay and' enjoyed it s much as if the boys wera his own children. He was very proud of them and their conduct deserved his praise. Fort Mende, Colonel Carlton’s family arrived Wednes- day. Troop C left Friday on a ten days practice march, Private Schickuer, K troop, hus boen ap- pointed corporal. Lieutenant F. C, Marshall has left on & month’s leave of absence. Chaplain Vattmann left for Hot Springs Tuesday on & two days leave, Lieutenant J. A, Gaston leaves August 1 on & two months leave of absence. 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