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VOL. XXVI.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IND., JUNE 20, 1891.
NO. 25
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WEATHER CROP BULLETIN.
Of th. Xadlaaa W.ath.r B.rrle. la e»-.p.ratlon with
th. Cattail -*tat.B Sleaal S.rrlc. for th. w..h .adlag
B^tsrdar. Jas. 13, 1891.
The weather was quite favorable to
growing crops, the rainfall waa badly distributed, while excessive rains fell In some
localities, in others there fell only a few
light showers; temperature and sunshine
were slightly below the weekly average.
Numerous thunderstorms passed over different parts of the State during the earlier
part of the week; in the southeastern portion they were of great violence and
causod much damage. Wheat is maturing
fast, continuing in excellent condition for
a good crop; in the southern portion harvesting will begin next week; in some localities smut [and grain aphis are on the
wheat; corn with rain and a warmer temperature is growing more vigorously and
looks very well; even oats have improved
in some localities; pasturage is good and
fruit of all kinds still promises a large
crop.
SOUTHERN PORTIOK.
Vevay, Switzerland Co.—Violent wind,
rain and thunder storms have been of daily
occurrence and have been especially destructive to hillside crops; wheat kept up
well, corn suffered froja washing, the
greatest injury resulted to fruit, trees
heavy laden with cherries and peaches
were blown down, shade and forest .trees
prostrated and an unusual number~_f'cal.
tie and horses were killed by lightning;
large barns and tobacco sheds were swept
away; but notwithstanding the tempestuous state of the weather crops have not
suffered permanent injury.   Rainfall, 3.87
Huntingburg, Dubois Co.—Rain needed
badly; have had one shower but not heavy
enough to do much good; 'wheat is begln-
ing to ripen, some farmers will begin to
harvest within a week; grain is good;
oats and corn are behind.
Semoure, Jackson Co.—Another favorable week for growing crops and farm operations and there seems to be a decided
improvement; the wheat crop, almost
ready to cut will exceed the average both
in quality and quantity; abundant rain
and sunshine have greatly improved the
condition of all growing crops and with
continued favorable weather there will
bean average crop of corn, oats, hay and
fruit. Livestock are thriving and noxious
insects have done but little harm in this
locality.   Rainfall, 1.71.
Princeton, Gibson Co.—Harvest will
commence in a few days, wheat is tangled
considerable by wind but otherwise it is
all right; clover is being cut; raspberries
are just beginning to ripen there is a big
crop.   Rainfall, 2.10.
Mount Vernon, Posey Co.—Many of our
farmers will commence harvesting to-day,
their wheat, the Fultz variety is the earliest; on some wheat the heads have not entirely filled; all next week the song of the
reaper will be heard all over the county;
early planted potatoes look very fine.
RainfaU, 1.20.
DeGonia Springs, Warrick Co.—Much
cloudiness prevailed, little rain fell here
but heavy rains fell around us; early
wheat ia nearly ripe; the grain aphis Is
very plentiful; meadows are light; pasturage failing; corn is small but hearty looking.   RainfaU, 0.13.
Worthington, Greene Co.—The recent
rains followed by fairly warm weather
and a moderate amount of sunshine had a
beneficial effect on all growing crops; the
late planted corn Is growing up very well:
Pasturage and meadows are improving and
the wheat is maturing rapidly, the heads
we well filled and the straw is standing
well, a large portion will be ready for harvesting by the 20th; peaches, plums, cherries, peas and apples, all promise a rich
yield.  RainfaU, 0.62.
Butlerville, Jennings Co.—Corn is growing rapidly since the recent rains; wheat
is ripening and will be ready for cutting
in ten days; ths black smut Is noticed in
some fields; the aphis has commenced
ravaging the oats crop which otherwise is
doing well; early cherries are nearly gone,
the yield was two thirds of a crop. Rainfall, 0 G2.
Marengo, Crawford Co.—Wheat harvest
will begin next week; barley is already
being cut; clover is ready but it has been
too showery; oats probably will bo nearly
a failure; meadows will probably be short.
Rainfall, 1.10.
CENTRAL PORTION.
Indianapolis, Marion Co—The weather
was quite favorable and all crops are advancing, especially corn which has grown
quite rapidly.   Rainfall, 0.29.
Shelhyville, Shelby Co.—The condition
of the weather was favorable for all growing crops; the late wheat heads are filling
well and the early is hardening, the latter
wiU be ready for harvest in ten days and
promises a larger crop than Shelby county
has ever yet produced.   Rainfall, 0.59.
Franklin, Johnson Co.—Wheat is looking remarkably well notwithstanding
that there are some insects on it; oats
has improved very much and some fields
will make a fair crop, timothy and clover
are short and will yield a light crop; corn
is very uneven and now growing fast;
p-saches, grapes and cherries are very
abundant, other fruit a fair crop. RainfaU.   0.00.
NORTHERN PORTION.
Delphi, CarroU Co.—The temperature
and sunshine have been favorable to corn
and wheat; much of it which has been
prostrated by wind has come up again;
there is some complaint of smut in wheat
but it must be quite Uttle only. RainfaU,
1.37.
Angola, Steuben Co.—The weather during the week, although cool, was good
growing weather with its showers; farmers are busy working corn; wheat ia big in
straw and oats is doing better, every
thing else promises to yield a good crop.
RainfaU, 0.60.
Point Isabel, Grant Co.—The weather
has been very favorablo to all crops; farmers are very busy tilUng the corn, it is
very even and growing rapidly, with favorable weather in the future, the prospect
is very good; the aphis has made its appearance in few fields of wheat, otherwise
wheat looks fine; berries wiU be quite
abundant.   RainfaU, 0.02.
Logansport, Cass Co.—Temperature and
weather have been favorable to crops; corn
is small but of a good color; the aphis has
appeared on the wheat but in smaller
numbers than last year; the strawberry
crop Is good and early cherries very good.
RainfaU, 1.22.
Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co.—The excess
in precipitation during the first part
of the week, while retarding the
cultivation of corn for a time, has with
high temperature and much sunshine
during the latter part of the week, caused
a rapid growth of all growing crops; the
prospect for a good yield of wheat and oats
in this connty continues favorable; some
damage to the wheat is reported on account of smut; strawberries continue to be
abundant and of good quality.   Rainfall,
2.32.
H. A. Huston,
■Director Indiana Weather Service.
Per C. F. R. Wappenuans,
Observer Signal  Service,  Assistant Director.
The bodies of thousands of dead cattle,
horses, hogs and other animals are scattered along the banks of the Red river.
Beds, chairs, tables and all sorts of furniture are found in the bottoms since the
flood went down.
Washington  Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent:
The State department has placed a special train at the disposal of the diplomatic
corps, and on the 11th all of the countries
whose representatives happened to be in
town were figuratively pat aboard a
Pullman and started for Chicago, where
they will be shown what has been done
towards the great exposition. It is expected that this visit will be productive of
much good.
Director General Davis of tho World's
Fair was here this week consulting with
department officials es to the Government
exhibit at this exposition, and perfecting
arrangements for sending a commission
abroad for the purpose of interesting
foreign manufacturers and merchants in
the exposition.
If it be true that Hon. Charles E.
Mitchell, commissioner of patents, will
shortly retire, as is generally believed here
the poor inventors of the country will
lose a good friend, as he has just shown by
cbangingthe rulesof practice so as to make
it impossible for examiners in the patent
office to reject applications that ought to
be granted and then afterwards as patent
attorneys get a fee from the same applicant for getting through what should have
properly gone through on its merits in the
first place. The new rule prohibits any
person who has been employed In the
patent office, appearing as agent or attorney in any cose upon which—he has
taken any action while so employed, and
is commended by everyone except the
men it is intended to hit—the examiners
now practicing as attorneys.
President Harrison can scarcely be accused of partisanship in the appointment
of the justices of the private land claim
court, as he has appointed three republicans and two Democrats. The Chief Justice is Joseph R. Reed, of Iowa, and the
associate justices Wilbur F. Stone, of Colorado; H. C. Sluss,of Kansas; T. C. Fuller,
of North Carolinia, and W. W. Murry of
Tennessee. The United States Attorneys
are M. G. Reynolds, of Missouri and L.
W. Colby, of Nebraska.
Mr. Blaine has got the W. C. T. U. after him, and he wUl probably find it more
troublesome than the gout. The ladies
object to his eflorts for the introduction of
American beer and whiskey into South
and Central America.
For years it has been stated and restated in the columns of presumably well
informed newspapers that Sir John Mac-
donald was the only obstacle to the peaceful annexation of Canada to the United
States. Now that Sir John is dead we
shall watch with interest the movements
of the annexationists both in Canada and
the United States in order to ascortainhow
much truth there was in these oft repeated
assertions.
These words of President Polk of the
National Farmer's Alliance are at this
time suggestive: "We are not making
war on any political party, but simply
teaching the people how to get reUef as
laid down on our platform. And for
several months to come President Polk
will take a hind personally in "teaching
tho people." There are to 'be large mass
meetings held in forty States this summer
besides a corps of speakers are to be kept
constantly at work addressing small meetings in Isolated communities. Whatever
the outcome-, this certainly looks like
business.
World's Fair Notes.
Dr. James A. Ilenshall, of the Ohio fish
commission, will have charge of that part
of the World's Fair fish and fisheries exhibit which relates to fishing tackle. Dr.
Henshall is a famous fisherman and promises that visitors will see the finest display of angUng appliances ever collected.
Chief Collins, of the fish and fisheries de
partment, delivered an address la Washington recently before the National Fisheries A**sociatlon, in >» hick he said: Fisheries will receive more consideration at
ill** World's Columbian Exposition than
has ever boen accorded them elsewhere
under similar circumstances. Heretofore
there has never been an adequate and suitable provision made at any exposition
In this country for a fishing exhibit."
Chief Collins heartily approves the plans
that havo been made and says the United
States li. li^ commission will make a complete exhibit of the fishery resources of
this country. *
Lieutenant Saffjrd, special Exposition
commissioner to Peru, has secured a collection of Indian antiquities found in the
graves of the tribe that inhabited the coast
region of northern Peru before the conquest. The cjllection embraces specimens
of pottery, copper instruments and various objacts of ethnological interest.
Indiana World's Fair Commission offers
prizes.of $300, $200 and $100 respectively for
the first, second and third best plans for
the Indiana Building at Jackson park.
The building U to cost about $25,000 and to
contain about. '6,000 square feet of lloor
space. It will be constructed entirely of
Indiana material. The outside walls will
be of stone, pressod brick and terra cotta;
the roof of a rooting tile or of iron mado
iu that State. The inside finish Is to be
highly ornamental and made of plate,
beveled and looking glass, hard wood and
encaustic tile. Tho building is to serve
the double purpose of displaying, in its
construction, the building material of
Indiana, and as head quarters for an entertainment of visitors from the State and
their guests at the Exposition.
There is to bo one large room on the
ground lloor for assembly and reception
purposes, and separate ladles' and gentlemen's rooms with lavatories and all modern conveniences, a check or baggage
room, and a room for dining and lunching.
The foreign market for American bread-
stuffs is being materially broadened in different ways. Ono is the r*_ action of import duties by foreign governments on
breadstuff.. Severalcountrles have lately
taken this action, notably France, Portugal, Venezuela and Peru. The French
government has decided to reduce the
duty on wheat to 3 franct (a franc is about
20 cents) and on flaur to 6 francs per hoc-
tolito (a hectolite a 2-837 bushels). This
duty will only be enforced from August 1
to June 1, 1892, when a higer duty will be
collected. Portugal has fixed a temporary duty on flour of over $3 per sack, but
has reduced the duty on wheat and removed the restrictions which prevented
millers from buying more than one bushel of foreign wheat for every two bushels
of domestic wheat purchased, and Venezuela now admits all ceieils free, and Peru
admits wheat and corn free of duty.—
American Miller.
The London, England, "British Baker"
says: "The expenditure of $10,000,000 on
foreign flour suggests uncomfortable
doubts as to the average quaUty of Eng-
Ush makes. The popularity of American
flour must have some substantial basis, or
it would dot increase nor extend among the bread consumers of the
nation as it has done during the past five
years. It is not a simple case of foreign
competition. If English makes were preferred, we should buy what we required
from the foreigner In the form of wheat
and make it into Hour at home. The convenient parcels or quantities in which the
American Hour Is sold may have something, but can not have everything, to do
with its growing use."