Show NATIONAL CROP PROSPECTS Whfnlllrn mul Iliiiiiocft Not Hair IIl > to use vtruce Cmey so August 2TIus following crop report will appear in this weeks issue of tho Gunners Itnirw Ihe prolonged and serious hAoS ous drouth which i has materially shortened tho spring wheat crop mid caused serious menace to tho corn crop was partially broken this week copious rams having fallen in Kansas IJo portions r Missouri F fie injury which corn has received cannot jet be determined from the reports lullv one third of thin conntiesof Illinois Missouri and Kansas report that corn while showing this cllects of tlio drouth has not yet been seriously injured and will have n fair yield l ll should ram como in time Ihe remaining counties report mets or Icssinjury the tenor of the reports being very discouraging de during that man fields hnvo already felt the blight and predicting not to exceed one half an ordinary yield Iho outlook is reported especially gloomy throughout tIm entire cor belt for nil Into planted corn One hilt tho Iowa counties report that serious injury has already bo f it diI tr r fallen the corn fields and that tho yield for the Stub will fall Uiort of nn average by from 25 to 40 per cent In Jinigolu anil I Warren counties the corn does lot promise ono half an ordinary yield limo corn outlook in Minnesota in most favorable with prospects of nn aver oils yield with continued ruins In Wisconsin Wiscon-sin the tenor of the report docs not indicate to exceed two thirds of an ordinary yield In portions of tho Stnto there has been no rain for six weeks nnd nil the crops are n bad failure In Ohio Indiana and Michigan the outlook is still favorable for nu nverngo yield of corn In Fnribnilt Slower and Wheeler counties in Minnesota the reports indicate I better wheat yield than predicted in previous reports but the remaining counties indicate that the total jield for the Stale will exhibit n material shortage e In Houston and Shcrbown counties less thnn hal tho usual yield is 1 indicated in-dicated Hnrv esting is progressing rapidly in Minnesota und Dakota Mmnehaha county and Bomlliommc count Dakota wheat is i threshing out twelve to fifteen fif-teen bushels to tho ucro In Faulk count over half the crop was cut for fodder In Nebraska nnd Iowa the wheat > icld will bo considered short of tho average f Ucports indicUo a very short flax yield mid in tho entire western and northern belt thin outlook for n > olato crop is wry poor |