The following, from the town of Rome, is in response to the request we made two weeks ago for reports of crops in various towns of the county. The columns of the Press were much too crowded to give it room last week. Small grain in Rome, both in quantity and quality, is a little ahead of the average crop. Many pieces of wheat have far exceeded the expectations of their owners. One field of spring wheat on W. W. Burhite's farm produced thirty-two bushels per acre, and the average yield on the same farm was twenty bushels. James Craney, T. W. Horton, O. G. Canck, L. Finch, and others, all harvested pieces of very fine wheat. Oat is about a common yield. Potatoes and other vegetables are doing well. Corn is as good as other years, except a few fields destroyed by hail in the neighborhood of Greenough creek. Another year the area of small grain will be largely increased in this vicinity. Mr. Horton has broken fifty acres this season, and Mr. Russell a piece somewhat smaller. These enterprising farmers intend to sow the greater part of their new land to winter wheat. After a few years the boys who leave our county to seek employment in the harvest fields of Minnesota and Iowa will have plenty to do at home. This and other reports demonstrate that we live in a land where honest toil receives its just reward, and that our county is as productive as any of its boundaries. One more such harvest as the one recently garnered, and the common verdict that Adams county is a waste of barren sand, will be numbered among the things of the past. --E.R. Wiley
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