VOL. XXVII.
INDIANAPOLIS, INDM JULY 23,1892.
NO. 30
WEATHEH CROP BULLETIN
United Stales Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau. Weather Orop .Bulletin
ofthe Indiana Weather Service, in co-operation with the Agricultural Experiment
, Station at Purdue University, ending Tuesday July 19,1892.
The precipitation was very deficient
during the past seven daya, in many localities, no rain fell at all; the temperature was deficient in general; the first halt
of the week, a slight excess prevailed but
a sudden fall in temperature occurred on
the 16th, and since then, it has been cool
with a temperature below normal every
day; there was abundant sunshine: these
conditions were favorable to harvesting,
threshing and growing crops, although
some rain would be quite beneficial to
oorn and potatoes in many fields, in the
southern and central portions, threshing
" progresses rapidly; although much light
wheat is found in some counties, still the
general yield is good; in the extreme
northern portion, harvesting of wheat
still progresses and in many fields, cradles
have to be used. Corn continues to grow
nicely and to improve; in the southern
portion much is getting in Bilk and tassel;
the fields are now well cultivated, but the
growth varies greatly, ranging from G
inches to 5 feet. Oats, everywhere, is a
heavy crop of excellent quality; much
-hay continued lo be made and the >.-.rop
this year, is very great; the fruit crop will
be very short, the reports from all sections
are very discouraging.
SOUTHERN POBTION.
Worthington, Greene Co.—Wheat is now
coming to maiket In quite fair condition,
. quality and yield gocd; the warm weather
the first half of the week improved the ap-
• pearance of the corn crop; the potato crop
is better than for many years; frnit, especially; apples and grapes are falling off
badly; the weather has been very fine for
haymaking and the crop is being harvested
rapidly and yield good.   Rainfall, 0 26.
Jasper, Dubois Co —Wheat is harvested
in splendid condition; threshing commenced this week and the yield is about
from 20 to 25 bushels per acre; oats is all
cut and is 90 per cent; no mildew or lice
are on the oats this year and it stood well;
corn is growing very fine and the ground
is in,--riodcondition; hay is good and cutting has commenced; fruit is very small
and the crrp will be short.
Huntingburg, Dubois Co.—The weather
has been generally good for farmers;
wheat is harvested and the yield from 17
to 25 bushels per acre; corn is doing well
and there is a good prospect that it will
ripen before frost comes; pastures and
meadows are doing well a big hay crop is
being gathered.   R.infall, trace.
Mt. Vernon, Posey Co.—Much hay has
been harvested; the last seven days wheat
threshing is progressing nicely; farmers
are wanting rain hoping it would benefit
late planted corn; wheat 65 cents market
dull.   Rainfall, 012.
VevAy, Switzerland Co.—The week has
been unusually favorable to crops with
special benefits to tobacco and corn . both
of which are in the most promising condition ; potatoes fine and plenty; wheat continues to arrive for shipment and finds
ready sale at 70 cents for the best quality.
Rainfall, 0 45.
DeGonia Springs, Warrick Co.—Another week of splendid weather for haymaking and threshing; corn is doing
fairly well; beginning to need rain; oats
is ripe and cut; oats in ■ southern Indiana
is not an average crop; wheat is turning
_ ut well.   Rainfall, 0 05.
■    Seymour, Jackson Co.—The weather for
the past week has been exceptionally
favorable for wheat threshing; and oats
and hay harvest; but altogether too cool
and dry for growing corn and late vegetables ; melons excepted; wheat threshing is
about completed and the yield exceeds an
average; while the quality is superior;
oats and hay crops heavy; fruit and berry
crops light; melons are doing well now
and the orop will fully up to the average;
pastures in prime condition; and liye
stock thriving; some wheat ground is
broken, and a considerable area will be
sown during the latter part of August;
fertilizars will be very generally used;
the shipment of "nutmeg" melons has
commence; crop large and unusually fine;
watermelons will be late, but abundant
and good; no noxious insects. Rainfall,
0.19.
New Albany, Floyd Co.—Weather conditions the past week was very favorable
for growing crops; a sufficiency of rain
and sunshine with high temperature, has
been very favorable for oorn; the prospect
is very fair for a large crop; wheat threshing is progressing very rapidly; and the
yield and quality was never better; many
crops averaging 30 bushels per acre; a
conservative estimate of the average is 23
bushels per acre; we had a severe thunder
storm with heavy rain and considerable
wind on the 15th.   Rainfall, 1 59.
CENTRA!, PORTION.
--' IrvlDgton, Marion Co.—Upon the whole
the weather during the past seven days
has been favorable to farmers, a little too
dry, but it afforded an excellent opportunity for making hay, threshing and working corn, the latter needing work badly.
Rainfall, 0.20.
Franklin, Johnson' Co.—The weather
has been very favorable for all kinds of
work, with but three days hot and very
little rain; wheat threshing lively, the
yield being rather of an inferior quality;
oats is most in shock and the crop is fair;
early planted corn is in silk and tassel,
later planted is growing well, it being of
all stages from six inches and upward.
Rainfall, 0:20.
Farmland, Randolph Co.—There were
traces of rain on two days during the
week and corn needs rain now; threshing
has commenced, most of it is good wheat
but some of it is poor; corn looks well but
it is small; it is very fine weather for hay
making, very cool on the 15th and 16th.
Rainfall, trace.
Shelbyville, Shelby Co.—Wheat threshing has not advanced enough to permit
an estimate of the crop, a large per cent
will be light weight, whatever has been
marketed, averages 17 bushels at 57 pounds
in weight; the estimate for Shelby county
is l,000,000;bushe_soverhomeconsumptIon.
Rainfall, 1.40.
Cambridge City, Wayne Co.—Every day
was fair or clear with an average temperature exceeding that of last week except on
the 10th acd 17th when it was comfortably
cool; the yield of wheat will be large, on
account of increased acreage, but the quality will not be so good; one-half of the
crop will grade No. 3, a good quality of
No. 2 will be found only in smaller lots;
the straw is good; corn looks well, but
rain is needed.   Rainfall, 0.22.
Ashboro, Clay Co.—The weather has
been perfect, threshing, stacking and haying has been the order the past week and
will continue for another week; this is the
largest wheat crop ever raised in this
county, the average yield in the bottoms
is 25 bushels per acre; the hay crop is good
and being put up in good condition; corn
is growing nicely.   No rain.
Mauzy, Rush Co.—Wheat harvest done;
threshing commenced latter part of week,
but not enough yet to make an average of
quality and yield; some fields of corn
show tassels, most of the crop in good
growing condition; Friday afternoon
about 3 p. m. there was a heavy rain, wind
and thunder storm, from two to four
miles south of here (Manzy), fences, wheat
shocks were blown down; with the exception of Saturday and Sunday the weather
has been very warm; on Saturday temperature was 14 9° below normal; oats ready
to harvest and well headed; a general rain
would be of much good to corn crop.
Rainfall, 0.06.
NORTHERN   POBTION.
LaPorte, L.Porte Co.—This has been an
excellent week for making hay and harvesting wheat; nearly all the wheat is in
shock and haying nearly done; timothy
is a good yield but clover is not so good;
corn is growing fairly well on uplands
and is unpromising on low and flat lands.
No rain. • |
Point Isabel, Grant Co.—Farmers made
good use of the favorable weather during
the past seven days; corn has been well
tilled and is growing rapidly, but it is yet
small, a half crop is only expected as
there are only but few good fields. A
large crop of hay has been put up in the
very best condition. Wheat is about all
threshed, the yield Is much better than
anticipated but the quality is not near as
good as last year, the average is from 20 to
25 bushels per acre and there was a large
acreage - sown; barley is yielding well;
the fruit crop is very light, there are no
cherries and there will be no apples; the
yield of berries is fair; as there has been
no rain for two woeks, rain is needed. No
rain.
Warsaw, Kosciusko Co.—Wheat is all in
shock in good condition although some
damaged by milk-rot and mo3t of the hay
is all made; the weather was the finest of
the season for vigorous work and farmers
made the best use of it; oats is heavy and
promises well where not drowned in
the spring; corn is doing well under a
hot sun and warm nights, in some fields
it stands from 4 to 5 feet, in others from
6 to 10 inches; most fields will be worked
this week and in fine shape; a good rain is
needed for corn and pastures. Rainfall,
0.33.
Haw Patch, LaGrange Co.—The weather
has been perfect; harvesting continues; in a lide across the county, I
found many cutting wheat because the
low fields have been too wet, binders mire
and more cradles are used this year than
in tbe last fifteen years; threshing com-
menceuontUs 18th, fair weather contln-
using; the corn crop is very uneven,
there fire some fine fields, but many are
small with a poor stand and weedy; possibly there will be only half a crop. Rainfall, 0.32.
Hatch's Mills, LaPorte Co.—Wheat
nearly all cut and judging from the heavy
shocks that stand very thick on many
fields, the crop is fine, threshing just commenced, do not know as to how it yields;
oats growing nicely, and on the prairies
they are gocd, they are still green; corn
doing well, potatoes beginning to need
rain; not much fruit of any kind; a few
peaches, but apples have nearly all fallen
off, although we had the heaviest bloom
this spring we have ever had. Rainfall,
0 25.
Angola, Steuben Co.—It has been a very
busy week with the farmers, the weather Is
all that could be asked for; need rain before long; some corn wants r* irking bad,
other is in good shape.   RainA |, 0.08.
Marion, Grant Co.—The past week has
been quite warm, the most of the time,
with no rain thus furnishing splendid
haying weather, the corn and other
growing crops need rain very badly.
Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co.—Rainfall
below average with average sunshine favorable to threshing and
crops; the wheat yield is fair. Riinfall,
0.41. *
H. A. Huston,
Director Indiana Weather Service.
Per C. F. R. Wappenhans,
Local  Forecast  Official,   Assistant  Director. U. S.  Weather Bureau.
Peaches In Florida.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
I see in the Farmer of the 4th inst. that
our friend Dr. A. Furnas, of California,
has had some new experience with peaches
—"a record that he never saw before," and
of course he never would if he bad remained in Indiana. Bat he must remember that there is one other State in the
union besides California that has the
"finest climate in the world" and that is
Florida.
I would like to compare notes with the
doctor and give him some of my experience in West Florida. Two years ago last
March I set 500 yearling trees in a clearing. The ground was In bad condition,
but they did vory well" and 12 months later
some of them were loaded with peaches.
I took 50 to GO off each tree and left 50
each on some of them, then they matured
and ripened in good shape and we were
eating them in May, just 14J_; months
from the time they were planted. I have
seen yearling trees set in January produce
a few specimens the same year, but tho
quickest work for a peach I ever saw was
fruitproduced the same season from seed.
Some seedlings came up alongside of a
barn lot and grew rapidly till about 4 feet
high, when a horse inside the lot kept
them nipped off. Some ef them bloomed
and two of them ripened a peach apiece
seven months from time of sprouting. 1
have set fig cuttings six to eight inches
long in the spring and had them grow several feet high and produce fruit by fall.
Peaches have brought a good price with us
this spring. Mr. Arris commenced shipping May 25th at ?6 50 per bushel. Mr. Everett sold his early crop delivered at depot in baskets at $6 50 per busbel. I retailed
some at the samo price. The grape crop is
very heavy, Niagara taking the lead. We
are shipping melons now. One Indianapolis man has 50 acres here.
A. G. Chandme.
Chipley, Florida.
The Windmill Country.—Great flapping sails all over the land make Holland
look as if flocks of huge sea-birds were just
settling upon it. There are said to be at
least ten thousand of these windmills in
Holland. They are employed in sawing
timber, beating hemp, grinding corn, and
many other kinds of work; but their principal use is for pumping water irom the
lowlands into the canals, and for gaurding
against the inland freshets that so often
deluge the country. Mauyof the windmills are quite simple affairs, but some of
the new ones are admirable. They are
so constructed that by an ingenious contrivance they present their fans or wings
to the wind in precisely the right direction
to work with the requisite power. In
otber words the mille** may indulge in a
quiet little sleep, and leave his mill to
study the winds and make the most of
them without assistance. If there is only
a little wind every sail will spread itself to
make the most of it, but if a big "blow"
should come they will all shrink up and
give it only half a chance to move them.
If you want to see windmills in all their
glory you must pay a visit to the land cf
windmills.—American Miller.
"Yes," said the sensible girl, "she's an ■*
heiress, but I'm afraid she doesn't know
how to husband her resources."
"Oh, yes she does," was the reply.   She's
engaged to be married now."