VOL. XXVIII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. JULY  8, 1893
NO. 27.
WEATHER CHOP BULLETIN..:
Department of Agriculture United States
Weather Bureau. Crop Bulletin of the Indiana Weather Service in Co-operation
With the Agricultural Experiment Station
at Purdue University, Tuesday, July 4,
1893.
The precipitation was near normal in
the southern portion; much below normal in the northern; average temperature
prevailed and much sunshine. The
weather was exceedingly favorable to the
crops, to harvesting and farm work. In
the southern portion the; wheat harvest is
ended in some, localities, while tn the
northern portion the harvest is just beginning; the crop in shock is average and
above in quality as well as in quantity in
most fields. Large crops of clover and
hay have been secured in fine condition
without rain. Corn is growing very rapidly and stands well under good tillage.
Rye and oats are nearly ready for harvesting, except in the northern portion where
oats ripen slowly. All crops, especially
potatoes and tobacco, are In very good and
advanced condition. There are plenty of
berries but no tree fruit.
SOUTHERN rORTTON.
Switzerland Co.—The weather has been
unusually favorable to the wheat harvest
and much of it is Becured in the best condition; the average yield is from 18 to 30
bushels—to- the acre; tobacco is-in-fine
growing condition and not affected by the
fly.   Rainfall, 0.50.
Jackson Co.—Even temperature, generous sunshine and light rainfall have been
favorable conditions for wheat harvest,
which is now completed; threshing has
commenced and the yield is excellent, in
all respects above an average; hay, corn,
oats, potatoes and vegetables promise good
yields; fruit almost a failure; melon prospect excellent; live stock in prime condition; no noxious insects.   Rainfall, 0.25.
Dubois Co.—Wheat is nearly all harvested in good condition; the grain is
good, but the yield will be less than last
year; oats will be heavy aud the harvest
will commence this week.   Rainfall, 0.75.
Greene Co.—A large portion of the
wheat is in shock in good condition; head
well filled and the grain plump; corn is
doing remarkably well and the fields are,
generally clean; potatoes are promising
and meadows are .fairly good; cherries
and blackberries are scarce and nearly all
tree fruit has dropped off.   RainfaU, 1.07.
Warrick Co.—Wheat is all cut; it is not
nearly so good as last year; the heads are
short and a great deal was thia, but the
grain in general is plump; oats are late
but fairly good; corn is small but healthy
and good.   Rainfall, O.G0.
Perry Co.—Wheat is all harvested; corn
is doing well; late, potatoes are all planted
and farmers are well up with their work;
the rainfall is very beneficial to pasturage.
Rainfall, 0 00.
Vanderburgh Co.—Wheat is all cut and
in shock; well filled and the grain good;
clover is all cut and in the barn; corn
looks well and oats are in fine condition;
apples are falling oil fast and the crop will
be light.   No rain.
Posey Co.—The abundant rains were the
making of early potatoes; oats, timothy
and grass will be harvested next week.
Rainfall, 1.56.
Franklin   Co The  weather was  very
fine for corn, potatoes and for harvesting;
most of the corn looks well; wheat along
the river is harvested, also a large crop of
clover hay; fruit of all kinds is scarce.
Rainfall, 0.90.
Jefferson Co.—This has been a splendid
week; wheat, clover, barley and rye are
nearly all cut and saved; tobacco is in
good condition; a good crop Of berries are
ripening; potatoes and vegetables are a
large yield; grass and hay are fine and
stock in good condition.   Kainfall, 0.86.
Gibson Co.—Pine weather for farmers
prevailed; wheat harvest has be6n the
order of the day; much of tho wheat will
be light; corn is growing very rapidly.
RainfaU, 1.25.
Crawford Co.—The weather was very
favorable to the wheat harvest, and the
harvest is nearly ended with a crop in
good condition; oats are looking well; but
very Uttle haying has been done yet;
health is good.   RainfaU, 0.50.
Brown Oo.—The weather has been very
favorable and crops look fine; wheat is being cut and is well fiUed.   Rainfall, 1.00.
Bartholomew Co.—Wheat is all in shock
in good condition; threshing will commence next week; corn, oats and potatoes
are in good condition, but there is very
little fruit.   RainfaU, 1.00.
Clarke Co.—The weather was fine for the
wheat harvest, which is about completed;
the grain Is of good quality and there will
be a good yield; threshing will begin in
the southern part of the county next
week; corn ia looking weU.   RainfaU, 0.40.
Decatur Co.—The favorable weather has
enabled farmers to do much work; corn is
well tilled and clean-: we-sre hrtlie midst
of a fine wheat harvest which promises a
yield above average in quantity and quality, so also does oats and grass; apples
have nearly aU fallen off; the raspberry
crop is about half picked and marketed;
two-thirds of the strawberries; blackberries promise about half a crop but cherries are nearly all killed the yield will be
about one eight of a crop.   Rainfall 0.61.
Dearborn Co.—On account of damp,
cloudy weather the wheat harvest progresses slowly and much is to be cut yet,
the yield will be apparently good; all
all grow ing crops are coming on very fast;
potatoes are in good condition. Rainfall,
0.85.
Lawrence Co.—The wheat harvest is in
full blast; farmers are getting the wheat in
shock in good shape; oats and corn look
well.   Rainfall 0.20.
Sullivan Co.—Good weather for farm
work; wheat is nearly all cut; the harvest
will be finished by the Sth; corn is in good
condition, with the soil moist and warm;
some clover has been cut; all crops aro doing fine; I have never seen them in better
condition at this time.   Rainfall, 2.00.
CENTRAL PORTION.
Marion Co.—AVith much sunshine, average temperature and but very little rain
the harvesting of a fine crop of wheat proceeded uninterruptedly; corn is growing
rapidly and stand clean and well. Rainfall 0.21.
Hendricks Co.—Another week ot splendid growing weather; clover is curing in
good shape; wheat is ripening nicely and
some will be cut the coming weok; there
was a fine shower Thursday night.
Montgomery Co.-Good growing weather;
corn in good condition.   Rainfall 1.50.
Randolph Co.—The corn fields are in
splendid condition and the corn is growing rapidly; a fine crop of clover is being
saved; a good crop of wheat will be cut
from the 5th to the 10th; timothy will yield
only two-thirds of a crop.
Wayne Co.—The wheat harvest commenced on Tuesday; corn is freo from
weeds; a considerable quantity of clover
hay was cut and stored away before the
rain came; oats will make a good crop;
blackberries are abundant.   Rainfall, 0.56.
Rush Co.—The weather has been very
favorable for the hay harvest and much
hay has been put up; corn is in good condition.   Rainfall, 0.93.
Boone Co.—Corn and garden products
are suffering from drouth in some parts of
the county.
Fayette Co.—The wheat harvest has
commenced; the crop in general good.
Rainfall, 0.79.
Clay Co.—The week has been a favorable
one with the harvest well under way; corn
is growing rapidly and is generally in good
condition.   Rainfall 0.14.
NORTHERN PORTION.
Tippecanoe Co.—The weather has been
very favorable for wheat, but it is so badly
affected with rust that it is ripening very
slowly only; the corn could not do better.
Kainfall, 0.38.
Allen Co.—Clover is cut and put up in
good condition; timothy is beiDg cut; the
crop is not so good as last year; wheat is
ripening fast, there is some scab on it; the
harvest will begin on the 6th; the acreage
is not as large as last year and
some fields stand thin; early oats are good,
late, less so; a larger acreage of corn is doing well; potatoes are splendid, never better, no bugs yet; early apples are a failure:
fall and winter apples, a half crop only;
pasturage is good yet but it is getting dry.
No rain.
Whitley0.r=Wheat is a fuU average
crop; the harvest will begin next week;
the weather was fine for haying; oats look
weU; it has been too dry for early potatoes;
there is a good prospect forall crops. RainfaU, 0.50.
LaPorte Co.—The weather was fine for
farmwork and crops, are doing well; a
large hay crop was put up in barn and
stack; potatoes look very good this year;
they are covered with blossoms more than
usually and there are less potato bugs
than generaUy; the white clover crop is
the greatest for many years. Rainfall,
0.16.
Stuben Co.—The weather has been all
that farmers could desire for work and especially hay-making, but being too dry
it was not beneficial to oats, corn and early
potatoes; wheat will bo cut next week.
Rainfall, 0.08.
Pulaski Co.—Harvesting has begun of a
large acreage of wheat and a very heavy
crop.
Cass Co.—High temperature prevailed,
very beneficial to hay-making; clover hay
was all made without rain; corn looks
very fine; wheat is very promising, large
heads well filled; the harvest commences
next week.   Rainfall, 0.03.
Kosciusko Co.—The weather was finest
for corn-tending, and clover haymaking
in the best condition; the wheat harvest
will commence in the middle of next
week; oats are maturing in fine condition
and all crops are promising. Rainfall,
0.75.
Porter Co.—The weather was very favorable for making hay and for the wheat
which is ripening fast; it has been too dry
for potatoes, late planted corn, raspberries
and blackberries.
H. A. Huston,
Director Indiana Wenther Service.
Per C. F. R. Wappenhans,
Weather Bureau Assistant Director.
The Washington Forests.
"To the average Easterner, the forests of
Michigan and Wisconsin seem to offer an
inexhaustible supply of timber. Yet these
two States taken together have barely one-
quarter as much timber as is standing in
the forests of Washington," writes Hon.
F. I. Vassault, in The Forest's Last Strong
hoid, one of the attractions of the June
Now Peterson.   "That great timber belt
extending along the western slope of the
Alleghanies from the Gulf to the Lakes,
and covering twenty times the area of the
timber belt of Washington, has to-day less
standing timber than is in this far Western
State. The Government reports place this
timber at 389,365 milUon feet. At the average rate of their work, the saw-mills of
Washington will require four centuries to
convert the forests into lumber.
"And one would say that, if any instrument of human ingenuity could accomplish this feat in less time, it would be the
modern steam saw-mill. The thing that
most impresses the stranger who visits
one of these institutions, after he has recovered from the shock of seeing the immense waste that is around him, is the
marvelous ingenuity with which human
labor is dispensed with, and the wonderful
perfection of the labor-saving machinery.'
London.
London has 700,000 dwellings, 10,000 new
ones every year; 37,000 marriages annually.
Its 30,000 streets would reach from New
York to San Francisco.
More Scots than Edinburgh, more Irishmen than Dublin, more Jews than Palestine.
One million souls or more who are oc-
casionaUy objects of charity.
Burns 6,000,000 tons of coal per year.
Shelters 30 persons whose incomes are
over $500,000 a year each.
Spends $6,000,000 daily.
-  Has 99 banks.   One—the Bank of England—turns  out  $96,000,000  in notes per
week.
The clearing house business is $40,000,-
000,000.
There are 400 newspapers in all languages, circulating 30,000,000 copies per
week.
Ten million letters aro delivered weekly,
6,000,000 telegrams yearly.—New York
Recorder.
Mixtc Qcxos.
Beecham's Pills for a bad Liver.
Union City has recently had a $75,000
fire.
Ross Huffman, a small child of Waterloo, was drowned by falling in a tube of
water.
Henry Kinneinan, of Madison county,
fell dead whilo loading hay. He was a
man of family.
Guy Laudig, son of Mrs. Lizzie Laudig,
of nuntihgton, stepped on a rusty nail
and died of blood poisoning.
The people of Jonesboro held a mass
meeting and hung the Governor of Illinois in effigy becauso of the pardon of tho
anarchists.
Many farmers in Orange county, particularly those where the soil has a limestone foundation, are claiming a yield of
30 bushels of wheat to the acre.
The smallpox has been stamped out in
Elwood. AU tho cases are convalescent.
The reported cases east of that city are
also convalescent. The gas belt had a narrow escape from a general spread of this
infectious diseases.
Christian Rose, of Jefferson township,
Allen county, whose death is reported at
the ripe old age of 81, settled in Allen
county when it was almost unbroken
wilderness. Ho aided materially in
building the Wabash canal, and also the
Pittsburg and Wabash railways.
William Ransdell, of Lebanon, while
handling a bunch of bananas, was bitten
by a tarantula, but he was copiously
served with whisky and escaped fatal consequences. The bananas were examined
and a nest of young tarantulas was found.
One hundred and more were kttled.