Show The Crop Report I CHICAGO September 4The Farmers Re fol View in this weeks issue will print the fof lowing crop summary Frost which prevailed pre-vailed throughout a portion of the corn belt during one night of the past week caused very little damage to growing corn Reports Re-ports indicate that while drought and continued con-tinued hot weather seriously injured the general prospects of corn it also accelerated the ripening of grain and in sections of Missouri Kansas Iowa and Minnesota a portion of the crop has sufficiently matured to be beyond danger from frost Report indicate that as a whole the corn crop will be out of the way of frost within fifteen days if not attacked prior to then and a large proportion of the crop cannot be seriously seri-ously menaced even now The general prospects for the output of corn show no marked improvement The tenor of reports re-ports from all States except Ohio Indiana Michigan and Minnesota continue to predict pre-dict a short crop In the four States named prospects continue favorable for a full average aver-age yield while a majority of the counties estimate the yield at from 45 to G5 per cent Twentysix Ohio counties estimate an average I aver-age of 61 per cent Kansas Missouri and Wisconsin give promise Of about onehalf the usual yield Reports indicate that pastures I pas-tures are rapidly drying up though in portions II por-tions of Illinois and Iowa late rains have served to renew grass somewhat I |