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VOL. XX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUG. 1,1885. NO, 31 THE CROPS. i From Onr Correspondents antl Other Sources. As is our custom, we will not attempt to secure estimates on the actual yield of wheat on the basis of tho threshermen's report till later in the season, when the data will be fuller and ■ reports on the amount threshed can be had upon which to base the yield for the year. We give below, ho wo ver, the reports so far as we - have them to date from the threshers and others. In nearly every instance .we find that the yield per acre is a little above the previous estimates. One reporter from Boone county, Ind., states that a 60-acre field of wheat which was estimated at 16 to 18 bushels per acre, threshed out a little above30 bushels peracre. A 40-aere field in Hendricks county estimated at eight bushels made 12 peracre. An 80-acre fold in Johnson connty estimated at six bushels made ten per acre. Similar reports come from Gibson, Shelby and Henry counties. Our correspondents state that -the wheat was thin on the ground and • hence1 the.JQW(ar'erttm*{e9y*ti]ay;in these ■> cases the exeess * in yield was m ade"" lip'T)^ the well-filled heads and heavy berry, the wheat weighing heavier than expected. There are, on the other hand, an equal number of counties in the central find southern sections which report threshed fields at only five to eight bushels per acre . only, but nearly agree that the grain is fine, weighing better than expected and that the yield will be a little above previ ous reports. .-"'-' INDIANA. ■ " Reports from 16 counties state that the yield of wbeat will be 15 to 20 per cent better than heretofore estimated. In 18 counties the yield was 10 to 12 per cent higher than estimated. Corn is reported in good condition for a large crop. Many local rains are reported from nearly all quarters, but complaint comes from other places that rain is needed badly to make the corn crop. , ? Oats and hay fine in all sections, and hay well saved. / ohio7 .,' The reports on wheat from Ohio are not so favorable. Nearly all of'our correspondents stato that the yield will be about as heretofore estimated, a few fields threshed Indicating this situation. Corn promising fine, though needing rain in many sections. Oats and hay crops good. ILLINOIS. One reporter, near Shawneetown, in the extreme south, reports the wheat far better than expected, yielding from the machine 10 to 16 bushels per acre. In other southern counties correspondents state tbat while the grain is good the yield will be very low per acre. In more northern sections the yield is about as heretofore estimated in some counties and 10 to 12 percent bettor in others, so far as threshing has revealed it. Corn in good condition. Many local rains of late, but other sections needing rain. WHEAT CROP OF INDIA, 1884-5. The following is the latest and most re liable information in regard to the wheat crop in India for the current year. It is from the Agricultural Department of the Government of India: "The harvest being now completed, it is possible to estimate with some approach to accuracy the area under wheat and the outturn during the year 1884-5, In the Provinces of the Punjab, the northwestern Provinces and Oude, the Central Provinces, Bombay and the Berars, which, taken together, comprise in ordinary years nearly three quarters of the total area of wheat cultivation in India. For the remaining one-fourth which is contained in Bengal and in the Native States of tho Rajputana and Central India Agencies, Mysore, Kashmir, and the Baroda, the figures are less trustworthy, owing to the absence of any organized agency for testing area or outturn. "The normal area under wheat during tbe last few years in India is believed, according to the latest estimates, to be about 26,000,000 acres, of which the average ontturn Is estimated roughly at 7,135,000 tons. The whole area cultivated in tbe year under review, which was exceptionally favorable for, -wheat, la estimated, to &sv**b©en.*«r«^^ with a yield of about 7,7J3,T>30 tons. The following table compares the actual area and outturn of the Provinces enumerated above, vylth the area and outturn of average years:'' Acres, Punjab-...*..._ .....7,000,000 North westernProvinces and Qnde .'. 5,500,000 Central Provinces 4,000.000 Bombay „....l ,600,000 Berara 700.000 ,. Total .". .18,900,000 19,868,489 6,500,900 "With regard to the prospects of the several provinces, the reports for April have added little to the information given in the previous months, from which the conclusion may be drawn that the wheat harvest has on the whole yielded a fair average outturn. There is, however, reason to fear that injury has recently been caused to the wheat on the threshing floors in the Punjab, where the wheat harvest Is later than elsewhere, by the abnormal rain which has fallen in May. "The following table shows tho countries to which the wheat was exported. The increasing exports to the Mediterranean are worthy of notice, and are understood to be due in a great measure to the suitability of Indian wheat for macaroni: 1881-2. Cauntr ea. Tona. United Kingdom...'ia l«31 Belgium ......131.361 Prance „ .265,403 Holland 35,619 Italy _ 17,966 Egypt 45,954 Othtr countries.... 28,012 THE CORK WEB WOBM. Acres. Tons, 7,181,400 2,857,099 5,298,036 2,100,000 3,700,000 817,857 2,670,000 590,183 819,057 135,770 1882-3. 1881-4.' 1881-5. Tons. Tons. Tons. 828,758 525,413 372,249 72,914 129.678 86,934 178,385 169,895 165,748 28,912 9,8*7 4,6.*7 8,806 22,270 35,0 ti 39,977 165,299 H0.575 19,438 25,636 ■ 17,530 Total .....993,176 707^20 1,017,824 792,714 On the 14th ult. lightning killed five hogs for Richard Goldsmith and a fine four- year-old mare for Seth Loomis, of Noble township, and two horses for John Troy, of Union township, Laporte county. It burned the latter'a stable. Mr. Loom is was insured with the Ohio Farmers. Lightning also struck a fence on the farm of Jno. Fultz, in Lincoln township, and killed 22 out of 53 sheep that lay near it. _ha_3* Editors Ind ana Farmer: I send you a cut of the corn web-worm. The cut also illustrates the method of work oh corn./Of course it is too late to do anything with Itthis season, but I wish to learn »of localities whe**e it has been^U w.ork Uittpresent.Beasori, in order talit*>>w' where to expect it next spring. ■ This is the insect mentioned by rne in my note in the Farmer of July 4th. It is known as Omnibus zeclits. I find it has done considerable damage*- in the State, and I hope yon will urge your readers to report, either to you or me, any localities where they know it has been doing any injury. F. M. Webster. Lafayette The description given by Prof. W. in the Farmkr of July 4th is as follows: The adult insect is a moth, probably of the genus Crambus, the larvso of which affect corn somewhat as the cut worm does. They may be easily known by their being found about hills of corn in a loose cocoon »r sack of .silken threads, like spider web, covered with loose bits of the soil, just below tbe surface. The worms retire to these and remain therein when not feeding. DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT. Demonstrations of Respect at the Capitol. From out regular correspondent: The National flags are at half mast over all the Government offices in honor of ex- President Grant deceased. The Departments were closed on Thursday noon out of respect for the illustrious dead, and on the day of hia interment they will be closed again. If, as is expected, he will be buried at Arlington or Soldiers Home, there will be the grandest funeral pageant ever seen in Washington. The President and his Cabinet will attend his funeral, and Mr. Blaine, though he and General Grant were not friends, will bo at the grave, where all enmities are buried. The remains will probably lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol, where they will be viewed by thousands who were familiar with his face in life. Gen. Grant's death was generally known in this city beforo nine o'clock on Thursday morning. The President was among the first to receive the sad intelligence. He was sitting in his library persuing the morning papers when an alarm was sounded on the executive telephone. Col. Lamont who at that moment arrived at his desk, answered the call, which came from the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The news that Gen. Grant had died was immediately conveyed to the President. He appeared deeply moved and expressed his unbounded sympathy for the General's family. A few minutes later the President received a dispatch from Col. Fred Grant, stating that his father had died at eight o'clock. The President thereupon sent a dispatch of condolence, which was transmitted to Mrs. Grant. By nine o'clock nearly all the daily newspapers had issued extras, and the church bells throughout the city were tolling. Flags upon the White House and all the public buildings and many private establishments were displayed at half mast. A messenger was detailed to notify all the Cabinet officers that a special meeting of the Cabinet would be held at eleven o'clock, to take action in regard to Gen. Grant's death. When all were assembled around the cabinet table the President formally announced the death of General Grant and read a copy of hia < dispatch to Mrs. Grant. A proclamation which had previously been prepared at the State Department,"- was submittea*' approved and imiK*;dl*>'jJly afterward issued. At dawn of day 13 guns will be'fired, and afterward, at intervals of 30 minutes between the rising and setting ofthe sun, a single sun, and al the close of tho day a national sainte of 33 guns. The officers of the army will wear crape on the left arm and on their swords, and the colors of the battalion of engineers of the several regiments of tho United States corps of cadets will be put in mourning for tho period of six months. It was the universal opinion that the interment ought to take placo here. Soldiers' Home and the Arlington Cemetry have been suggested as appropriate places for his final resting place. Col. Wilson, commissioner of public buildings and parks, called on the President this afternoon in relation to draping the front of the White House. When he concluded his Interview with the President he stated that the building would bo draped "just as General Grant would do it himself, were he in the White House. I have told the designer tovmake an elaborate and artistic job of lt." The decorator waa at the White House late in the afternoon and laid out his work under the personal direction of Col. Wilson, The result is that the White House has been handsomely draped, the emblems of mourning being equal to those on the White House at the time of the death of President Garfield. They are over and around the windows and door facing north, and the great pillars of the portico at the north entranceare also covered with black. Lou Sheptery, of Tippecanoe county, aged 12, inspired by a boyish freak, concealed himself in tho weeds in front of a mower. He was caught by the machinery and horribly cut up, there being 51 separate cuts on bis body and limbs. The sixtieth anniversary of the marriage of Rev. W. C. Wilmore and wife was celebrated Jnne 21 at his residence near Winchester. He is on« of the leading citizens of the county. One hundred. and ten persons were present, 73 of whom were relative.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1885, v. 20, no. 31 (Aug. 1) |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
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Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Transcript | VOL. XX. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUG. 1,1885. NO, 31 THE CROPS. i From Onr Correspondents antl Other Sources. As is our custom, we will not attempt to secure estimates on the actual yield of wheat on the basis of tho threshermen's report till later in the season, when the data will be fuller and ■ reports on the amount threshed can be had upon which to base the yield for the year. We give below, ho wo ver, the reports so far as we - have them to date from the threshers and others. In nearly every instance .we find that the yield per acre is a little above the previous estimates. One reporter from Boone county, Ind., states that a 60-acre field of wheat which was estimated at 16 to 18 bushels per acre, threshed out a little above30 bushels peracre. A 40-aere field in Hendricks county estimated at eight bushels made 12 peracre. An 80-acre fold in Johnson connty estimated at six bushels made ten per acre. Similar reports come from Gibson, Shelby and Henry counties. Our correspondents state that -the wheat was thin on the ground and • hence1 the.JQW(ar'erttm*{e9y*ti]ay;in these ■> cases the exeess * in yield was m ade"" lip'T)^ the well-filled heads and heavy berry, the wheat weighing heavier than expected. There are, on the other hand, an equal number of counties in the central find southern sections which report threshed fields at only five to eight bushels per acre . only, but nearly agree that the grain is fine, weighing better than expected and that the yield will be a little above previ ous reports. .-"'-' INDIANA. ■ " Reports from 16 counties state that the yield of wbeat will be 15 to 20 per cent better than heretofore estimated. In 18 counties the yield was 10 to 12 per cent higher than estimated. Corn is reported in good condition for a large crop. Many local rains are reported from nearly all quarters, but complaint comes from other places that rain is needed badly to make the corn crop. , ? Oats and hay fine in all sections, and hay well saved. / ohio7 .,' The reports on wheat from Ohio are not so favorable. Nearly all of'our correspondents stato that the yield will be about as heretofore estimated, a few fields threshed Indicating this situation. Corn promising fine, though needing rain in many sections. Oats and hay crops good. ILLINOIS. One reporter, near Shawneetown, in the extreme south, reports the wheat far better than expected, yielding from the machine 10 to 16 bushels per acre. In other southern counties correspondents state tbat while the grain is good the yield will be very low per acre. In more northern sections the yield is about as heretofore estimated in some counties and 10 to 12 percent bettor in others, so far as threshing has revealed it. Corn in good condition. Many local rains of late, but other sections needing rain. WHEAT CROP OF INDIA, 1884-5. The following is the latest and most re liable information in regard to the wheat crop in India for the current year. It is from the Agricultural Department of the Government of India: "The harvest being now completed, it is possible to estimate with some approach to accuracy the area under wheat and the outturn during the year 1884-5, In the Provinces of the Punjab, the northwestern Provinces and Oude, the Central Provinces, Bombay and the Berars, which, taken together, comprise in ordinary years nearly three quarters of the total area of wheat cultivation in India. For the remaining one-fourth which is contained in Bengal and in the Native States of tho Rajputana and Central India Agencies, Mysore, Kashmir, and the Baroda, the figures are less trustworthy, owing to the absence of any organized agency for testing area or outturn. "The normal area under wheat during tbe last few years in India is believed, according to the latest estimates, to be about 26,000,000 acres, of which the average ontturn Is estimated roughly at 7,135,000 tons. The whole area cultivated in tbe year under review, which was exceptionally favorable for, -wheat, la estimated, to &sv**b©en.*«r«^^ with a yield of about 7,7J3,T>30 tons. The following table compares the actual area and outturn of the Provinces enumerated above, vylth the area and outturn of average years:'' Acres, Punjab-...*..._ .....7,000,000 North westernProvinces and Qnde .'. 5,500,000 Central Provinces 4,000.000 Bombay „....l ,600,000 Berara 700.000 ,. Total .". .18,900,000 19,868,489 6,500,900 "With regard to the prospects of the several provinces, the reports for April have added little to the information given in the previous months, from which the conclusion may be drawn that the wheat harvest has on the whole yielded a fair average outturn. There is, however, reason to fear that injury has recently been caused to the wheat on the threshing floors in the Punjab, where the wheat harvest Is later than elsewhere, by the abnormal rain which has fallen in May. "The following table shows tho countries to which the wheat was exported. The increasing exports to the Mediterranean are worthy of notice, and are understood to be due in a great measure to the suitability of Indian wheat for macaroni: 1881-2. Cauntr ea. Tona. United Kingdom...'ia l«31 Belgium ......131.361 Prance „ .265,403 Holland 35,619 Italy _ 17,966 Egypt 45,954 Othtr countries.... 28,012 THE CORK WEB WOBM. Acres. Tons, 7,181,400 2,857,099 5,298,036 2,100,000 3,700,000 817,857 2,670,000 590,183 819,057 135,770 1882-3. 1881-4.' 1881-5. Tons. Tons. Tons. 828,758 525,413 372,249 72,914 129.678 86,934 178,385 169,895 165,748 28,912 9,8*7 4,6.*7 8,806 22,270 35,0 ti 39,977 165,299 H0.575 19,438 25,636 ■ 17,530 Total .....993,176 707^20 1,017,824 792,714 On the 14th ult. lightning killed five hogs for Richard Goldsmith and a fine four- year-old mare for Seth Loomis, of Noble township, and two horses for John Troy, of Union township, Laporte county. It burned the latter'a stable. Mr. Loom is was insured with the Ohio Farmers. Lightning also struck a fence on the farm of Jno. Fultz, in Lincoln township, and killed 22 out of 53 sheep that lay near it. _ha_3* Editors Ind ana Farmer: I send you a cut of the corn web-worm. The cut also illustrates the method of work oh corn./Of course it is too late to do anything with Itthis season, but I wish to learn »of localities whe**e it has been^U w.ork Uittpresent.Beasori, in order talit*>>w' where to expect it next spring. ■ This is the insect mentioned by rne in my note in the Farmer of July 4th. It is known as Omnibus zeclits. I find it has done considerable damage*- in the State, and I hope yon will urge your readers to report, either to you or me, any localities where they know it has been doing any injury. F. M. Webster. Lafayette The description given by Prof. W. in the Farmkr of July 4th is as follows: The adult insect is a moth, probably of the genus Crambus, the larvso of which affect corn somewhat as the cut worm does. They may be easily known by their being found about hills of corn in a loose cocoon »r sack of .silken threads, like spider web, covered with loose bits of the soil, just below tbe surface. The worms retire to these and remain therein when not feeding. DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT. Demonstrations of Respect at the Capitol. From out regular correspondent: The National flags are at half mast over all the Government offices in honor of ex- President Grant deceased. The Departments were closed on Thursday noon out of respect for the illustrious dead, and on the day of hia interment they will be closed again. If, as is expected, he will be buried at Arlington or Soldiers Home, there will be the grandest funeral pageant ever seen in Washington. The President and his Cabinet will attend his funeral, and Mr. Blaine, though he and General Grant were not friends, will bo at the grave, where all enmities are buried. The remains will probably lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol, where they will be viewed by thousands who were familiar with his face in life. Gen. Grant's death was generally known in this city beforo nine o'clock on Thursday morning. The President was among the first to receive the sad intelligence. He was sitting in his library persuing the morning papers when an alarm was sounded on the executive telephone. Col. Lamont who at that moment arrived at his desk, answered the call, which came from the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The news that Gen. Grant had died was immediately conveyed to the President. He appeared deeply moved and expressed his unbounded sympathy for the General's family. A few minutes later the President received a dispatch from Col. Fred Grant, stating that his father had died at eight o'clock. The President thereupon sent a dispatch of condolence, which was transmitted to Mrs. Grant. By nine o'clock nearly all the daily newspapers had issued extras, and the church bells throughout the city were tolling. Flags upon the White House and all the public buildings and many private establishments were displayed at half mast. A messenger was detailed to notify all the Cabinet officers that a special meeting of the Cabinet would be held at eleven o'clock, to take action in regard to Gen. Grant's death. When all were assembled around the cabinet table the President formally announced the death of General Grant and read a copy of hia < dispatch to Mrs. Grant. A proclamation which had previously been prepared at the State Department,"- was submittea*' approved and imiK*;dl*>'jJly afterward issued. At dawn of day 13 guns will be'fired, and afterward, at intervals of 30 minutes between the rising and setting ofthe sun, a single sun, and al the close of tho day a national sainte of 33 guns. The officers of the army will wear crape on the left arm and on their swords, and the colors of the battalion of engineers of the several regiments of tho United States corps of cadets will be put in mourning for tho period of six months. It was the universal opinion that the interment ought to take placo here. Soldiers' Home and the Arlington Cemetry have been suggested as appropriate places for his final resting place. Col. Wilson, commissioner of public buildings and parks, called on the President this afternoon in relation to draping the front of the White House. When he concluded his Interview with the President he stated that the building would bo draped "just as General Grant would do it himself, were he in the White House. I have told the designer tovmake an elaborate and artistic job of lt." The decorator waa at the White House late in the afternoon and laid out his work under the personal direction of Col. Wilson, The result is that the White House has been handsomely draped, the emblems of mourning being equal to those on the White House at the time of the death of President Garfield. They are over and around the windows and door facing north, and the great pillars of the portico at the north entranceare also covered with black. Lou Sheptery, of Tippecanoe county, aged 12, inspired by a boyish freak, concealed himself in tho weeds in front of a mower. He was caught by the machinery and horribly cut up, there being 51 separate cuts on bis body and limbs. The sixtieth anniversary of the marriage of Rev. W. C. Wilmore and wife was celebrated Jnne 21 at his residence near Winchester. He is on« of the leading citizens of the county. One hundred. and ten persons were present, 73 of whom were relative. |
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