VOL. XXII.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1887.
NO. 20
CROP REPORT.
Condition of Li ve Stock and Staple Crops.
Tin- very dry and unfavorable weather
for the lirst pan of April did more barm to
the growing wheat than the usually bad
March weather iliil thia year. Itis generally felt that if tin' plant can escape the
sudden changes of the freezing and tint win;.'
March temperature*, it is safe. Hut this
year the first part of April was exceptional,
and (he plant suffered more in April than
in    March    from   cold dry   weather.    For
temperature  alone   April was not bad on
wheat,   but rather   was it   the dry  period
mentioned,   lt will be remembered thai
the crop of 1879 was one of the largest ever
grown,and the mean temperature of April
for that year was exactly that of this
year, viz.: 52.3, but the rainfall was normal that year, and the plant grew rapidly.
The damage accruing was chiefly in the
heavy clay lands. In the bottoms and
black loams little or no damage ensued, as
they always stand more dry weather than
the uplands, as they are termed. But reports in the past few days show that the
wheat plant is improving in condition in
lands where it was supposed to have been
seriously damaged, and that the outlook
for the crop is even better than it promised
tin the lirst of May, anil is rapidly improving under the present favorable weather.
A large area of oats has been sown this
year. The small rainfall left the ground
in the finest possible condition for spring
crops. Both oats anil corn ground were
in the very best condition to receive the
seeding, and corn planting is now going
forward rapidly and promises a large ana.
W UK AT  S I'M MARY.
Our April report showed an area of 93
per cent irTlndiana, Itt in Illinois and us in
Ohio. The condition of the plant then was
a? in Indiana, 84 in Illinois and 86 iu Ohio.
Our May report shows the condition in Indiana to l'i' s:i, Illinois 83 and < >hio I'.K So
it is seen that for the entire State the average condition remains tbe same in Indiana, while in Illinois it is one point lower.
and in Ohio six points lower than in April.
If the present favorable weather continues
the June reports will show considerable
recovery from these points and a better
condition of the crop.
TH K BRASSES.
The dry weather in April also retarded
the growth of the grasses, and as a result
while the condition of clover was reported
87 per cent in April, it is now but st in
Indiana, in Illinois 89, and in Ohio but 80.
Timothy meadows is 92 per cent for condition in Indiana, against 94 in April, and
in Illinois s'.i and Ohio st, a slight reduction from the April reports in both.
I  111   IT CHOPS.
li was feared that trull was badly damaged by the April cold weather, which at
one time •bowed a temperature of 28°.
But subsequent examinations showed that
this wasa mistake generally. Bothapples
and peach,-are reported in tine condition,
and now promise a better crop than for
several years. Small fruits also promise
an abundant yield. The grape crop will
bean immense one if nothing hinders
from now on. The condition of the minor
crops will be noted by the small table of
averages by States.
1.1VF   STOCK.
The condition of horses,eattle,sheep and
swine is reported well up for the month
which always brings changes from winter
to spring. There has been much leas complaint of loss by swine plague than prevailed during the fall and winter, bnt this
is always the case in the spring season.
XIHAXA—AVKHAUKS BY  COtNTIES   AXIl DIVISIONS.
The following   table gives  the   averages
in per cents compared with a full average
area anil condition at same date mother
Average years, and not of any particular
year:
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mi      8ii     mi
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Huntington	
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mi
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Jasper	
85
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Marshall	
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110
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Hamilton	
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105
Ml         75         IV,
Hancock	
100
mi
90       7o       Mi
Hendricks	
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Henry	
90
80
70         80       100
Howard	
90
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80         9I>       100
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80
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90
106
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Morgan	
100
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98
88       80
91
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ItHMAltKsol    Ill'.I'dltl •Mmm      l\l'l\N\.
Franklin Co.   Apple crop vary good yet.
Bpeneer <».- Wheat oomlng out.
Qlbaon < 'o.    Win at  is thin.
Jefferson ('<>. Wheal has improved much
owing to rains.
Switzerland Ob, Hogs dying with cholera.
Dubois Co.—Wheat doing well; some
bog cholera.
Martin Co. Horses high and hogs a good
price.
DeoaturOo.   Stock ol all kinds In good
condition.
Daviess Co. -Heavy rains injured the
oats.
Harrison Co.—About  tin- fourths crop
nl peaches.
Randolph  Co.—-Last   fall   boga aU per-
ished and fear same for this apring.
.lay CO—Some disease among horses;
\\ heat looks had.
Shelby   Co.—Poultry    excellent;   fruit
binds better than common.
Delaware   Co.—Everything   baok ward;
wheat looks poor.
Henry Co.—Farmers   well   advanced in
plowing.
Hush Co.—Hut few hog! in county; died
or cholera.
Parke Co.—The outlook for present year
is good.
liraiit Co.—Wheat and clover damaged
by cold weather.
Montgomery Co.—An increased interest
ill raising line horses.
Miami Co.- Seventy-live per cent of
cherries killed.
Fulton Co.- -Wheat doing Well since late
rains.
Whitley Co.-Small fruit all right
Steuben Co.—Dry weather hurt wheat.
Kosciusko  Co.—Cool   dry   weather hurt
wheat badly.
POrter Oo.—All April dry for wheat.
Hancock Co.—Clover, frozen out.
OHIO.
Brown Co.—About three-fourths of breaking for corn done.
Ijogan Co.—April cold; vegetables back-
Ward.
Fairfield Co.—Much rain; ground too
wet to work.
Putnam Co.   Flowing hurt wheal.
Auglaize Co.—Large per  cent of  wheat.
plowed under and sown in oats.
Deliance ('o. -Too dry for wheat.it looks
had.
Lueas Co.—March dry and cold.
ILLINOIS.
Montgomery   <'o.    -Wheat     much     im-
|iro\ e.l; backward spring.
Madison Co.—Everything growing;large
potato crop planted, early ones coming up
nicely.
Hiatt Co.—Hogs scarce; no disease.
Washington Co. i nils all iu, and corn
about half.
Wayne Co.-    Krafts of  all kinds  plenty;
sol  hilleh  lillgs.
Wabash Cb. Too much rain for farming.
Clay Co.—>Wel weather; no oorn planted
yet,
Kllinghani i'o. Prospect good on all;
cherries plentiful; health g I.
Perry Co.—Proapeots are very favorable.
Cumberland   Oo.    Since rains,   wheat is
Improving; pasture still short.
DeWitt Oo.—Apple crop will be -hurt.
IVKKAQE 11V si \ I 1 -.
linliitiuvoiiio. Illinois..
Wheat, DM nol "I  iililion .11! 7li 81
Oats, per cot at acreage  97 98 104
I In!-., |i. I■ <-i'ill of ciinililii.il  Nl 89 80
flcviT. |,,-r i'i'iii ul i liliioi. M (10 89
Tililiitlo jii'i'n luiif.'iuiiiiliiiii Bl 84 W
A i |.l, >. per cent nf Im,Is uliv,' S7 71 80
Peachee,percefr4 ,,f liiiilsulivi. ,;■! 59 02
H> c. per cinl nl ii.iHliliuii  89 78 81
Barley, par cant of i llUon si 07 70
I              . per cinl ul condition Mi 9:( 94
Oattle, par sent of i Ilttoo. iv, mi 91
II,.      . |,,l CHI  ilfilllMlllillO... 9.' 10 m
Sheep, par oent of 1 dittoo. 111 9:1 89
Written lot the Indiana Fanner,
Northwest Arkansas.—No. 3.
hy \v. 1.. osnoitx.
I w ill take up the prices of   lands, in an-
■Wer to all enquiries.   We bave land hare
that can be had as low 11s rj.", per acre, good
land, probably well timbered, often with
some Improvements, and of course good
water, which is never failing everywhere.
The reasons for selling are various, probably lo get a larger tract, or go to some
other oountry, or for other reasons. Prices
vary from S.itn ST.", per acre. Those at the
higher rales you will find highly cultivated, iu good position, in good locality,
probably near a booming town, for onr
towns and the surrounding country is on
a big boom. Perhaps the owner is satisfied and don'l care about selling. I have
answered some thai lands are not much
higher Ihan fSS per acre, but will have to
admit that prices are on a big boom near
the principal towns, and I did not know
how much.   •'Mineral   fever" is raging all
over   tin-   county   and    land   has   1 me
higher. We have had such trading as this
since my last :    Some    Kansas   man, e.g.,
( es to Mr. A.   who has   aline   farm, all
level aud in cultivation, and asks what he
will take for his farm. A is nm earing to
sell, so he asks a high price, say ?-r>0 per
acre.    To  his  surprise   he is   taken up, A
then goes to  tua nlghber, C, who hasgot
nearly as good a farm as A, and buys him
out at s.i-5 per acre, fn the same manner
in which he sold, C in order to stay ill the
county, buys a tract on the other side of
town. You can get vacant government
land by home-steading and in other different ways, but the most of this land is
rocky, and is hardly worth having for
general farming, but all such land will
make a splendid pasture, or will bring
fruit of most any kind.
W. W. Sullivan in the Farmer of April
tSd, says that "about the 32° of north latitude, or a hundred miles north or south of
that running across Hi nntry   from the
eastern shore of North Carolina to New
Mexico, is the region so far as the climatic
Influences are concerned for you to locale."
Thai line strikes this region exactly, and
il is evidently line. The locality which
ber found is different from this, hut as he
did not visit this portion I will not dispute his statements, but judging from his
letter this section is evidently ahead of
that.
lingers.  Ark.
The communion table from which
ileorge Washington received the sacrament on the Sunday before his death has
just been restored to Christ church Alexandria, by Miss Sally Stuart, who received it from a near relative by bequest.