| Show V CONDITIONS IN NEBRASKA Corn Irnmlies s tjitgt lltM I tttpl In I tlin Mates Unrtlen at ou McCook Neb Aug 06Un crossing the Missouri liner running to Lincoln the Burlington lan l agents party I found n protpert wnlcb from an agrl tiltural standpoint could not to excelled ex-celled Corn Is luxuriant and sturdy I And every talk shows largedied cars sticking out Irma It It Is I to far danced d-anced that the uninitiated could be I made to believe very readily that III la past all harm from any source Not I wlthtlaiidlng Its line appearance however how-ever It In not let out of danger of frost I and t will 1 not be for nt coat oo wicks I A tlno crop of oats has been reaped In I this section Much of It If I itlll In the Chock and a good diet of It has been Hacked It la I thrashing out from I thirty to fifty bushels to the ncr and will average about forty The wheat I crop boa all been harvested and farm era nro now busy plowing their land preparatory to putting In another crop of winter wheat leaving Lincoln the outlook li I much lets promising Between Vncrly and 1alrtnont n distance of sixty 111110 la ft stretch of country which has usually been described ON tho garden spot of Nebraska Crops have always been abundant here however poorly they may have been In other parts of the Mate Last year and thin year have lien the only known exceptions to this rule Somehow this belt has suffered severely this year It has rained copiously copi-ously on all sides of It and all around It but Ibo clouds refuted to glvo It a drop of moisture until too Into to save tie corn crop For n stretch of country coun-try sixty miles long and sixty miles wide the corn crop Is I n comparative failure It will only run from a quarter to half n crop averaging na n whole about onethird nn ordinary crop Oils hats not faired so badly I They ore thrashing out from thlrlylUa to forty bushels nn acre Heavy rains fall over this section nt the end of last weak They como too late however to save the bulk of the corn Very much of It Is I willed beyond redemption and n Rood deal of It has already been cut for fodder fod-der Wheat this section Is thrashing out fifteen bushels to tho acre West of 1alrmont tho steno again change and on ocean of waving corn rtrong and luxuriant Is to bo seen afar s a-far as the eo can reach In every dlrec lion The crop from Hatting to the western boundary of tho stale Is practically prac-tically mate and nothing but n killing frost can now blight It It will average noli lets than sixty bushels to the acre nnd very many largo Melds will > lcM titty bushels Around McCook la hero tho dlsis tera of lOll year were most merely felt The gains of this year Imvo moro than made up for the losses then sustained sus-tained Tho whole section of country looks like a veritable garden and tho people feel buoyant beyond expression Winter wheat Is I thrashing out about twenty bushels to tho aero and the best fields are lcldlng thirty bushels Kprlng wheat Is running from twclvo a to flithlfo bunheli to the acre Oats average from ntty to sixty busiclt Ibo test fields thrashing out 100 bushels Alfalfa Is n new crop hero with which the people ore delighted All llnda of live stock cat It with relish end Ill Is proving to ho fattening fodder Tho first year It yields one ton to tho ncr but after the third year It yields three cropa n year which foot up coven soil onehalt tons to the acre It It 1 worth In the market J5 per ton but to feed cattle Ibo results have shown It to bo worth 570 per ncro Ill Is Ibo coming crop all along Ibo tho flats of tho Ito publican valley |
