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VOL. XXI INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MAY 8,1886. NO 19 THB CHOPS. Acreage and Condition of the Crop- in tbe Central West—Condition of the L.ive Stock. Our crop reports for May 1st, it will be noticed are quite favorable. The early days of April were not favorable, bnt the last three weeka of that month ushered in an early spring. The old saw, late Easter, a late spring, has been quite unreliable this year. The first of May found the spring season about two weeks earlier than an average. The wheat plant, the grass and all vegetation is fully two weeks growth in advance cf the average - pring season. Even here in central Indiana ■ome corn fields were planted during the last week of April. Since our April report the condition of the wheat has advanced in all three divisions of Indiana, as well as in Ohio and Illinois. It will be noticed that in Indiana for the whole State the advance is three per cent. The general outlook for crops thus far has rarely been better at this date. WHEAT SUMMARY. Indiana—Fer cent of condition 94; same r0 date last year it was 64. exac. Ohio—Per cent of condition 96; same She is *»t~ *—. y**r ~4- governs-Hinois—Per cent of condition 94; same dairy-w.8 last year 59. Such a ast year at this date there were but should b;n counties in Indiana which reported custome condition of wheat up to the average is relieve1 "0. Now there are 42, ten in the and free ;hern, 13 In the central and 19 in the slavery tbern d ivisions. About the same ratio cause miiproved condition exists in Ohio and T Illinois compared with last year, indeed considerably better than in the latter State. Thus far it is seen that good wheat crops are promised this year in the three great winter wheat States. OATS. Indiana—The area is 92 per cent, as compared with 94 last year. Ohio—Area 90, last year 97. Illinois—Area 97, last year 98. The reports from all the States give the plan t considerably more advanced than at same date last year, and this is equal to two points more, as it is the early maturing crop that is always the best. CLOVER AND TIMOTHY. Indiana—Clover, condition 88, timothy 94. Last year, clover 71, timothy 94. Ohio—Clover, condition 87 timothy 93. Last year, clover 87, timothy 64. Illinois—Clover, condition 84, timothy 94. Last year clover 79, and timothy 93. APPLES AND PEACHES. The per cent is considerable above that of same date last year on apples. In Indiana it is 89, Ohio 88 and Illinois 87. The per cent of peach buds alive is low in all three (States, 26, 24 and 23 respectively. RYE AND BARLEY. It will be noticed that the three States are reported nearly alike for condition of these crops, all well up toward a good average. Many counties grow but little cf either. Altogether it is seen that the May crop outlook isa decidedly good one, better than for several past years at this date. Many of our reporters state that a large crop of corn will be planted this season, that planting has commenced, and all conditions so far very favorable. INDIANA—AVERAGE BY COUNTIES AND DIVISIONS, The following table gives the averages in per cents compared with a fnll average area and oondltlon at same dale In other average years, and not of any particular year: Indiana Counties. Xarlhern l»l» l.l-n Adams Allen Kenton _ Carroll Cass DeKalb Klkhart Fulton Huntington Jasper— KtlSCill3_0 I .in:range Lake Laporte Marshall Miami Newton— Noble - Porter Pulaski Starke Ht. Joseph Steuben Wabash Wells White Whitley Average Ventral Dlvlelon llliic-kti.nl Boone „ Clay Clinton Delaware Fountain Grant Hamilton.. Hancock Hendricks Henry Howard— Jay Johnson - Madison Marion..- Montgomery Morgan.._ Owen , Parke Putnam Randolph. Rush Shelby Tippecanoe Tipton Union Vermillion ... Vigo Warren Wayne - Average •iciiillcc.nl I.i, Lion Bartholomew , Brown Clarke Crawford Daviess Dearborn.— Decatur Dubois. Favettc Floyd! Franklin Gibson Greene Harrison „ Jackson Jefferson..— Jennings- _ Knox Lawr -nee Marti n„ Monroe Ohio Orange Perry— Pike Posey Ripley Boot. *_ A fi S|>encer Sullivan Switzerland.. Vanderburg., Warrick Washington.. Average.. MO 100 IKI IK' We 95 ■ 9S lew WI 7 ao wi IKI ■ WI 95 ■ 95 95 * 95 IKI 95 wi KM £ e -a ». fi M 101 W) IKI IUJ !V> fill M6 MO 100 wo 96 76 90 110 100 90 75 95 70 Iii Ml lex WI n 7*. io vi im NO IKI IKI IKI H 75 SO 90 100 90 106 Du 100 1(10 Del 90 100 90 7.ri ■ li" HO Si 100 1(«) IKI M Wl WI 1110 100 86 IKI K IKI IKI IK) SS IKI IKI IKI m wi so ■ IK' Wi 100 120 101) let) IK) IOO 100 80 »i 86 100 100 75 Jt to 75 IKI Wi W5 IKI IKI ■ M HO 75 Wi W' WI lit! IKI Ml ll» MU SO IK) IKI IK) IK. IK) Wi W5 IK) IKI IKI IKI lim IKI |KI NO ■ S5 WI 9i N II" 95 H ■ ■ IKI 10 1511 Itm IKI Wl 96 95 Wl Il>l ■ n _ = A 6 o 96 100 ■ Wc ts Hi IKI IKI 11W 100 100 100 100 DM IKI M ■ 10C) lew 01 Wl Wl Wl Sll Wl lt,t) IKI i-a It 611 IK) IKI IKI IKI 75 IM IK) IKI HO 90 IO 100 IK. SO 100 100 100 90 ae IK IKI l»l IKI IKI 100 IKI 85 m so ■ W) Wi IKI .VII IKI IKI HO H 7c I Si a 81 HO IKI IKI 9u 96 IKI 9S IKI IK) MO 95 95 95 IKI IKI IKI IKI IKI 8. 95 Ik. IKI lim Ic itm lcm HO 95 96 Hi 75 ■ Wl 100 MO 95 ■ 75 Ml) um UO ICO ion 10; wi 93 86 100 90 -3 4 95 lcm lcm !«5 IK) IK) lcm M0 lcm at lcm so lcm 95 wj 95 lcm ao IK' lcm IKI um IKI um Itm lcm 95 ao H IKI Me 65 aa IKI tfi lcm SH um IKI IKI 95 Id lcm lim wi sic 75 W) Wl Wl Wl Wi Wl w. H lcm HO IKI lcm •*) -i, 5ci 90 100 90 an IK) Wl .so IKI Ik) IKI al IKI lcm 1110 I'll) W) M loll 85 lcm 75 60 Wi IKI 85 IK) UO SCI 75 um 100 Mil 80 70 100 75 100 80 sic NO lilO 2d IH) W) 7s 90 IKI 9S IK) IKI um lcm State, and Ohio two points lower. Indiana stands a little better than either Ohio or Illinois in the oondltlon of the hogs, and the same is true as regards sheep. These comparisons will be found in the condensed table of averages by States: 811 Wl IKI 50 ai IK) 75 Wl 80 Ino +l lcm W) I'll H Um M 95 IK) SC) IH) HI 96 100 100 100 100 100 100 90 80 10) 90 100 LIVE STOCK. In condition of live stock the three States stand very close together also. In horses Indiana reporta it two points higher than either Ohio or Illinois, while in cattle Illinois is one point higher than this AVERAGE BY STATES. J _ _ q Wl M 91 es <M aa ■x set M 97 97 94 H _ O 95 W) Wi 87 9:t 88 24 M at H 98 w 91 a* O a 94 Oats, average per cent of crop sown. Oats, per centof condition Apple buds, per cent alive _. Peach buds, percent alive ... Barley, per c ent of condition »7 96 81 91 87 23 91 91 90 95 89 90 MAY 1.—REPORTERS' NOTES.—INDIANA. Putnam Co.—A few peach blooms here. Owen Co.—Farmers pretty well up with their work. Howard Co.—Corn planting begun. Warren Co.—Planting oorn haa begun. Grant Co.—Vegetation more forward than usual. Tipton Co.—Everything flourishing. Union Co.—Some corn planted. Randolph Co.—Hog crop short one quarter or more. Parke Co.—Wheat and grass in prime condition. Hamilton Co.—I never saw better Bhow for good crops. Montgomery Co.—Wheat shows great vitality. Posey Co.—The whole vegetable creation in prime condition. Seedling peaches full average crop, budded not so .'good. Apple trees too full of blossom. Qibson Co.—Much plowing for corn done. Lawrence Co.—Some peach trees full of bloom. Fayette Co.—Very few stock hogs. Deaitorn Co.—Farm work well advanced. Floj d Co.—Some corn planted, potatoes coming up. Jackson Co.—Wheat never looked better. Jefferson Co.—Old meadows 50 per cent better than new. Monroe Co.—Some corn planted. Perry Co.—Earliest spring for 20 years. Harrisen Co.—Overflow of Ohio river makes seeding late. Kosciusko Co.—Everything blooming that grows. Marshall Co.—Small fruit prospect good. Cass Co.—Season two weeks earlier than last year. Wabash Co.—Distemper considerable among horses. Huntington Co.— Fruit prospect excellent. Jennings Co.—Large number of mares and colts lost in foaling. may 1.—OHIO. Fairfield Co.—Work progressing finely; no complaints. Lucas Co.—Very few peach trees alive. Hardin Co.—Wheat suffering from drouth. Auglaize Co.—Oats not quite all sown. Licking Co.—(.round never in better oondltlon. Clinton Co.—Wheat winter killed on undrained land badly. Putnam Co.—Rain needed here. Miami Co.—Fruit crop will be a good one. Hocking Co.—All flne for good crops. Jackson Co.—Fine crop outlook on all hands. MAY 1.—ILLINOIS. Clark Co.—Promising crop outlook. Edgar Co.—Spring farm work well advanced. Crawford Co—Too wet to plow here. Sangamon Co.—Everything looking fine. St. Clair Co.—Wheat is being damaged by chinch bugs. Washington Co.—Chinch bugs destroying the wheat. She. by Co.—Good prospect for abundance of small fruit. Union Co.—Dry; corn planting going forward. B >nd Co.—Fine farming weather, but cool. POTATO CULTUEE. The following suggestions on this subject by a writer in Vick's Magazine for May will be valuable at this time. Potatoes are becoming more and more a farm crop in this State, and it is important to be posted in the most approved methods of cultivating them, "Potatoes do well on corn land that has been manured for the oorn crop. Good sod land can also be used. A deep, mellow seed bed should be secured by deep plowing and thorough pulverizing. Manure and moisture are essentials. Old manure can be plowed in. Some of the bast crops are raised with commercial fertilizers. "Plant in drills or furrows, from four to six inches deep, according to the soil, light sandy soils, deeper, heavier soils more shallow. Drop the sets and cover them with a couple of inches of soil, and then sow the fertilizer in the rest of the soil. "(lo over the field with a common harrow, running lengthwise of the rows, just before the plants push their noses through, and thus destroy all the weeds; afterwards cultivate flat through the season, using only the common cultivator. "One of the best ways to use stable manure for a potato crop Is to plow it In in the fall. "Planting whole potatoes gives the best yield, according to the trials of the New York Experiment Station; half tubers are next best; quarter tubers next;single eyes yield least. Trials made at the Rural New-Yorker grounds favor cutting to two eyes; other trials correspond with both of these results. The best way Is not yet known. "Paris green or London purple to destroy the potato bng, is more economically applied with plaster or ground gypsum than with water, and the results are better. Mix one part of poison with one hundred parts, by weight, of plaster. Too much of the poison injures the foliage. If sufficient care is nsed in the thorough mixture of the substance, Paris green can be used in the proportion of one to one hundred and fifty." Three little children at South Hope, Maine, obtained some pills, and playing they were sick swallowed several. < )ne of the girls, aged six, died in great agony. The others are very sick, but will recover. The pills are supposed to hava contained strychnine.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1886, v. 21, no. 19 (May 8) |
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VOL. XXI
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, MAY 8,1886.
NO 19
THB CHOPS.
Acreage and Condition of the Crop-
in tbe Central West—Condition
of the L.ive Stock.
Our crop reports for May 1st, it will be
noticed are quite favorable. The early
days of April were not favorable, bnt the
last three weeka of that month ushered in
an early spring. The old saw, late Easter,
a late spring, has been quite unreliable
this year. The first of May found the
spring season about two weeks earlier
than an average. The wheat plant, the
grass and all vegetation is fully two weeks
growth in advance cf the average - pring
season. Even here in central Indiana
■ome corn fields were planted during the
last week of April. Since our April report the condition of the wheat has advanced in all three divisions of Indiana,
as well as in Ohio and Illinois. It will be
noticed that in Indiana for the whole State
the advance is three per cent. The general outlook for crops thus far has rarely
been better at this date.
WHEAT SUMMARY.
Indiana—Fer cent of condition 94; same
r0 date last year it was 64.
exac. Ohio—Per cent of condition 96; same
She is *»t~ *—. y**r ~4-
governs-Hinois—Per cent of condition 94; same
dairy-w.8 last year 59.
Such a ast year at this date there were but
should b;n counties in Indiana which reported
custome condition of wheat up to the average
is relieve1 "0. Now there are 42, ten in the
and free ;hern, 13 In the central and 19 in the
slavery tbern d ivisions. About the same ratio
cause miiproved condition exists in Ohio and
T Illinois compared with last year, indeed
considerably better than in the latter State.
Thus far it is seen that good wheat crops
are promised this year in the three great
winter wheat States.
OATS.
Indiana—The area is 92 per cent, as compared with 94 last year.
Ohio—Area 90, last year 97.
Illinois—Area 97, last year 98.
The reports from all the States give
the plan t considerably more advanced than
at same date last year, and this is equal to
two points more, as it is the early maturing crop that is always the best.
CLOVER AND TIMOTHY.
Indiana—Clover, condition 88, timothy
94. Last year, clover 71, timothy 94.
Ohio—Clover, condition 87 timothy 93.
Last year, clover 87, timothy 64.
Illinois—Clover, condition 84, timothy
94. Last year clover 79, and timothy 93.
APPLES AND PEACHES.
The per cent is considerable above that
of same date last year on apples. In Indiana it is 89, Ohio 88 and Illinois 87. The
per cent of peach buds alive is low in all
three (States, 26, 24 and 23 respectively.
RYE AND BARLEY.
It will be noticed that the three States
are reported nearly alike for condition of
these crops, all well up toward a good
average. Many counties grow but little
cf either.
Altogether it is seen that the May crop
outlook isa decidedly good one, better
than for several past years at this date.
Many of our reporters state that a large
crop of corn will be planted this season,
that planting has commenced, and all
conditions so far very favorable.
INDIANA—AVERAGE BY COUNTIES AND DIVISIONS,
The following table gives the averages
in per cents compared with a fnll average
area and oondltlon at same dale In other
average years, and not of any particular
year:
Indiana Counties.
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Klkhart
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Huntington
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Marshall
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Clay
Clinton
Delaware
Fountain
Grant
Hamilton..
Hancock
Hendricks
Henry
Howard—
Jay
Johnson -
Madison
Marion..-
Montgomery
Morgan.._
Owen ,
Parke
Putnam
Randolph.
Rush
Shelby
Tippecanoe
Tipton
Union
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Vigo
Warren
Wayne -
Average
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Brown
Clarke
Crawford
Daviess
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Favettc
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Franklin
Gibson
Greene
Harrison „
Jackson
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Monroe
Ohio
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