Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-07-12
TIE CROPS.
Reports to the Memphis Cotton
ENciIi,nge The Wheat III the
Northwest

MEMPHIS, July 10. The crop report
to the Memphis Cotton Exchange Tor
June embraces I'll responses, divided
~ follows: West Tennessee 81, North
Mississippi ~, North Arkansas 81.
Seventies report the weather having
been very unlavorable. with scasonable
rains; 81 report the first two or three
weeks very drv, with last week very
wet: 10 report the first week very wet,
I'm, three weeks very dry, with cool
weather; iS report the weather having
been unlavorable a. compared with
last wear; Il report weather much more
favorable; - about the same, III less
favorable stands. 57 report stands iorin'
ing and blooming very fine; 6j report
stands forming well y only moderately
good, but generally forming and bloom
ing well. Condition oi the cotton crop
-65 rrpnrt very fine; tree Oi grass anu
weeds; 66 report in good in good con
dition, though slightly grassy; report
well cultivated, hut plant small, needing
rain: IA report poor condition ami verv
grassy. AS compared with last year; W
report condition much better; ~ about
the same; -, not ~ good; abandoned
| cotton, IL reports from ] "a per cent
| al the cotton crops abandoned on ac
count Oi wet weather; grass scirct'
and labor averaging per cent OF the
entire crop; GS, reports from > To 10 per
| cent. oi the corn crops that were planted
i'm June, averaging - ) 100 per cent.
plnn,rd since hast report; 80, reporis
irons very tine, -, good both well cn-
tivalcd, -, inferior AMI not well euia-
| yatcd.
Wneat-9S, report nj wheat raised, the
Weld being IRON > To sbushels per acre.
| aver, ying d bushels IN most instances;
crop reported as being Utmost ialnir,
caused by rust.
The Damage to the Wheat Exaggerated
Sr. PArL, MlNS., July l0-Thc re-
| ports now disturbing the centres "i tue
| grain trade ot the failure 81 the WheM
| crop i'm the Northwest are founded up.
| on iacts, but the fact is exaggerated ana
| distor,.,l 50 that il j. difficult even 10 get
| AZ the facts ~ to the condition "i the
rrops. In the midst al pan'Cky rumofs
and interested pcryersion, grain dealers
/ nm II. Paul claim that the crop ~ nearly
ruined throughout the state M'hhe'
apolis millers say the wheat has no'
suffered seriously In the region tiluu'
tary to them. Every railroad company
las reports from along its line. which
in many cases l. contradicted by traH'
elers. Reports carefully siited, the aV-
| erare oi all evidence seems tn T. aoont
,Lis In the southern and river 'puntry
al Minnesota, embracing the heaviest
in the former district, IN Northefn
Iowa and Northwestern Wisconsin, The
erop has suffered seriously since the
heavy rains OF the first week IN June
This x.a,ber being followed by warm
sun. induced rust, which ~ not very
dangerous at this stage Of the growth:
and a sort OF blight oi the stalk as u
! sral1ed. which is more serious Certaln
counties, Olmsiead, Houston, Wrnons
AMI Wabash, have also Suffered from
the rsvnyes of the chinch bus. la loca =
Ties that have suffered most, thirty To
iorty per cent. is probably moderate
estiu,ate. The loss from the conblned
ranses. of coarse, average Tor the whole
section still more, for the whole State u
will be less. The western frontier coun-
Ties. including those ON the man
line of the ~. Paul, Minnesota anu
N,nitoba road, have Suffered much less
from, Wei weather aud rust and not all
from hugs, while the reports from the
\or,bern Pacific country aud ked nver
,sllsy where the rains uere not followed
Inv warm weather ss in the Souih' are
uniformly favorable.