Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-14
THE wEArHEs Avn rHE CroPs.

The stormy weather of the past week has
aroused feeling OF anxiety as to the condi-
ton of the crops Unusual anxiety is expe-
rienced in reference to them this season,
because the failure from drouth last year
has made the continuance OF good trade
dependent upon the yield of the present
season. The condition of trade and finance
at this time is such as to cause one of our
best business authorities, the New York
Public, to say: Excellent crops and good
foreign demand for our surplus products are
becoming every day more necessary to re-
store domestic trade to a condition OF decided
prosperity" The New York Herald, jour-
nal that gives special attention to meteoro-
logical matters, says that a careful examina-
ton of the Delaware peach orchards shows
that they have sustained no material damage
from the late frosts. AS the. peach is per-
haps Of all other crops the one most
sensitive TO unfavorable weather in April
and early May, if they have escaped injury
it may reasonably be concluded that the
season has been generally favorable to other
crops. There has been much rain this
spring; the spring of 1880 was also wet
one, and that year was one of the most aus
picious to agriculture the United States has
ever known. Although the present spring
has hitherto been colder than that of 1880,
still it has been on the whole nearly as favor
able to most crops. In our own part of the
country the rains have caused some of the
low lands to be flooded that have only re-
Gently emerged from the invading waters of
the great inundation of 1882. In many
places the young corn and cotton have been
washed away or covered with soil. The cold
has caused those pests, the cut-worms, TO
abound, and the army worm is also causing
alarm. The slight appearances of rust have
brought no damage. Both corn and cotton
have in many instances been replanted in
consequence of unfavorable weather, and
now a third planting is required in spots,
which is a cause of trouble, not only from
the extra labor but on account of the scarcity
of seed. We will now glance at what the
weather forecaster, Vennor, has to say OF
the weather of the week beginning to-
day, not that we regard him as in
fallible, although he has been more
correct than most of the weather al
manac people, but to give our readers OPP
portunity OF comparing his estimates with
the results, so that they may know how to
credit or discredit him in the future. His
last weeks predictions of miserable weather,
storms. and rains again toward the close of
the week with stormy weather we're correct
He also said "there may BE- brief intervals of
hot weather." Those intervals did not occur,
but as they were only "may be" that does not
make against him. OF the week now begun
he says: Generally wet and stormy; bleak
and fall-like, with wet weather in most dis
tricts up to Thursday-altogether very
variable weather." The succeeding days will
be more settled and warmer. decidedly hot
in some portions of the United States. The
week after this is to have cold rains again
changeable, windy, hail, thunder, and, in the
West, wind storms, closing unsummer-like
and more unsettled. Altogether the forecast
is discouraging to the farmers, who are
already delayed in their operations by a sort
of weather which, according to this writer, is
not to an end vet