New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-09
npy WEATHER FOR WEEKS.
rrrrcr OF THE DRoUTH ON CROPS

,,rcr oF THE DROUTH ON CROPS.
.ur DAMAGE LESS THAN IF 1T HAD COME EARlih"-
p ,.rr cAsBAGEs AND TuRNIPs HURT.
.o,,trv around New-York is beginning to
- rusty look, owing to the dry weather wnicn
,'s,,ov lasted about month: The trees are SUN
ns .n Init the grass, weeds and some OF the shrub
-, are turning brown. and pastures arc FURNISHING
peiy for cattle. 1t is now too late for drouth
- a. sucb damage as would have followed IL IL hao
w. w. az the usual time in juno or midsummer
ss,theess its effects are being felt in the market
's.ns Of Long Island and Jersey City. Treading
g. wav among barrels of potatoes. piles OF
',,,oe crates of big ruddy tomatoes and
,ts Of carrots turnps and beets
Tr,.rvr rsportcr went about Washington Mar
-. rs.terday making inquiries about the effects OF
~ .nrr, Yes. dry as DUST but it came too late to
,,t most OF the crops" said Long Island farmer.
rha only vegetable that is threatened with failure
..hs late cabbage crop and If we do not have rain
I'm n will hardly be worth the gathering. Now
40 cabbage patches may look green and healthy
sr,o the road but you go into the held and touc
,asn and they ere like sensitive plant Inc
,ooves drop rlght off They ought TO be beginning
20 head now, but it is so dry that they cannot Inc
late cabbage was set in June, and 1t got spendid
,,r but now it has got setback. AS for turnips,
thew will be poor crop. too, ON account Oh
srv weather. Turnips can't grow without
stsr because that's what they are made of largely
Well other crops are dong fairly. The dry spell Is
,,pening the late green corn too fast. though, and
= ia had for string beans. Celery isn't growing
,nncb either. though it had good start before the
droutb. Farmers on Loug Island will make
little money this year. Potatoes sold so cheaply-
o,lv n dollar a barrel-that the season was dis
.ouragine TO begin with Then we hoped to make
n N, on cabbage and now that crop is likely TO
fail Tomatoes are fine, but they arc only 80 cents
acra;e As for carrots, beets and onions they ala
fairly They bring 81 barrel. Cabbage Is from
50 so to IS a hundred; turnips 80 cents to $l a
barrel. tell you farmers that have hired their
farms as most of them do on the eastern endot Long
Island, will lose money. and those that own their
land will barely get through"
dealer showed the reporter some heads OF Long
Island cabbage. They were small, soft and worm
eaten, while the cabbage brought from Albany
County was large and solid. He said that the farm
ers both on Long Island and in New-Jersey were
beginning to be extremely anxious about the RAIN
Melons, he thought. had ripened already Tor the
most part and so would not feel the effects OF the
droutb. The late cabbage he SAID, was serlI,usly
threatened and it looked as II sauer kraut Woa %
dear dish for the German populatio,, VINO p9y
said 1T was year that favored consumers OF Tege-
tables rather than the producer or dealer MOst
kinds had been plenty owing to rains early IN the
summer and that made cheap prices, when meant
small prof to dealers as well as farmers
The lrut-trees are evidently beginning to feel the
effect of lack of rain. peach grower who lives up
the Hudson said Yes we are going TO have some
reaches but we will have more IT we have some
rain As il is they are not enargng as fast as they
should ana are dropping from the trees. Perhaps
the droutb will moi affect their quantity so much
as their quality. Except a little shower or two we
have not had any rain up there for over a montn:
The leaves hang the late peach trees pretty we'll
though and they say that while the leaves hang
the peaches Will rpen we'll. Ine leaves
did not hang to the early peaches
and the crop was poor. There so many
trees that have the blight now that 1t affects
crop good deal. Our horticultural Society has
been wrestling with the blight and the cause oil It,
but each man has different theory about IT. AS
for other fruits plumq are scarce anyway ana what
there are are dropping good deal. It's the same
swi.h apples-no crop at all TO speak of Pears have
done well, but they are not so plentiful as tney
were and are bringing good prices to-day"
The parks have kept their good looks longer tnis
season than for many years. The fohage IN the
groves is still dark green, and the grass mas Kept
its color longer than usual Ii IS beginning 10 grow
brown on dry spots. Along the railroads leading
out of the city there is generally parched look 10
the country The grass drv, and the SPARKS froIn
sha looo,notivas silv kIn6le in.