Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-12
BPS AND WEATHER.
.rv Rains Have Damaged Small
'S cain and Retarded the Cotton Crop
,.om;ses the Heaviest Yield Since 1880.
(0iD c.4ton will Come Out All Right
with Warm Weather

COMMUNICATIVE temperature OuEIuE
81 seven days has been below the
'n' are for this season OF. the year. The
g. for the season, from jan
- 70 July Il, is from 2 to 4 deg. be-
U'-' ..o.onable normal. The sunshine
10" I'm q little less than an average and
pa LaeD given out through broken
clouds. poinfo11 during the mast
-,-a1 DAYS has been about an average
.be season, except in few localities,
~ Ntara there is an excess. The greatest
W., VIZ * reported from Dallas county
60 - the amount which fell during the
~, ranged from two to seven inches.
W.. ~ rofnfall for the season is from two to
- inches in excess of normal.
4O'' GENERAL REMARKS.
nj. r,aatber has been more favorable
,-- -,i during the past seven days than
~ time during the previous four
.. - Small grain has been damaged
' .be shock. The corn crop is made
n15 is heavy yield. Crops in the low
III have been damaged extensively,
"nd in some instances ruined by over
e-rs Cotton, while injured, will come
Ut yet with favorable weather.
O'' EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS.
r,noview-G. ". Krech Too much
clondy and rainy weather. Cotton not
Soinr well. Corn only fairly well. Fruit
and vegetables in abundance.
Tuiiug-W. H. Raider. We have had
m much rain for cotton, but if it ywIll
anti now and be followed by exceedingly,
spnshinv weather there will be a heavy
crop Of cotton made.
''T RsoTas-M. E. Glass. Crops are pro-
crossing as well as could be expected
9fter so much rain. The damage to
crops in low lands is quite extensive from
high water
Nesquite-Silas 6. Lackey. Wheat is
badly damaged, sprouting and growing
oil over the shock. Corn is little hurt,
Init the yield is immense, greater than
fine heavy Weld of 1880. Cotton is badly
damaged from excessive rain, is full of
weeds and is a very poor crop.
CastrOville--Herman E. Haase. Cot
ton looks fine. Corn good.
Cedar Hill. P Berry. The rain
ceased oil the night of the Sd. Since
then the weather has been favorable for
CROPS. The oats crop is damaged 80 per
cent. o.: wheat 20 per cent. Cotton is be-
ginning to look better, but the stalks are
growing very large. Corn viii make
good ears. Wheat in small shocks of
from twelve to fourteen bundles is
damaged very little, while that in large
shocks of from fifty to sixty bundles is
half ruined.
MerkeI-J. L. Vaughn. Small grain
crops have been threshed. Wheat aver
aged about eighteen bushels per acre.
Oats not a very good crop.
Torscana-E. L. Gibson. The past
SCI day. have given very favorable
weather for farm work, and has given
farmers q chance to clean their cotton
and save their grain. Hay and millet
very fine Grapes not doing well on ac-
count of too much rain Other fruits
and vegetables are doing well.
Columbia. S. Rogers. Corn and
cane are looking well. The weather is
too showery for cotton. The Brazos
river is in about three feet of the top of
banks, and Is at stand.
Pilot POint-W. L. Moore. Crops not
so coed as they would have been if less
rain had fallen.
Colorado City,. R. Blount. Grain
sthe best for years. All crops doing
well.
La Grauge-Joseph Gotham. Cotton
badly in weed but looking well. Very
few cotton worms so far.
GaineSville-D. f. Ragsdale. Wheat
and oats badly damaged in the sheaf.
Belton-E. A. Stirling. The corn crop
is au average; very good acreage, about
10 per cent. less than last year. Cotton
on bottom lands IS in bad shape, while
on the uplands it VIII do well with warm,
bright weather. If it continues to rain
very little cotton will be made. Weeds
are growing rapidly. Wheat and oats
are cut short by rain. Other crops fair.
Howe-W. NJ Smith. Wheat has
sprouted some in the shock during the
late continued wet spell. No estimate.
has as yet been made as to the amount of
damage Oats has been damaged very
little, about p of per cent. Corn looks
wei but needs dry weather. Cotton is
DONG very well but needs dry weather
and:Sunshine.
Flores7ille-Goldstein & Lilly. Cotton
never Gld look better, and if worms do
Not appear the crop will be above an
average.
New Braunfels-Paul Wipprecht.
Cotton is being overrun with weeds on
account of continued rams. Cotton
o.ooms freely but produces no bowls, the
VgomS dropping Ton account of rain.
puVal-John c. Edgar. Farmers have
~aen advantage of the fair weather,
ana except on wet land, cotton is look
a. clean and healthy. With dry
..a cotton viii probably make a
~" average crop. Grass and forage
crops luyuriant.
San Narcos-C. W. Gregory. The
.Isl part of the week very little rain
,7"' which was favorable TO cotton, but
was succeeded by heavy rains. Cotton
growing too fast and if the rain con-
,--ues II viii cause the plant TO throw out
-'-S vigorous limbs devoid OF fruit
burhett-Wiiliam Splitter. Consider
Us the amount of rainfall the cotton
S'p on average has improved a great
.'1' during the past week in some por-
o .,.ls OF the county. The cat crop is
a-1iosJ entirely wasted, and the wheat
lt,'p is badly damaged. Farmers are
'lgsFiul. The outlook is very good.
Dfeuham-J. G. Sloan. Continued
,@'as have badly damaged the cotton
crop. Corn good. y
-AA.1Stu-OScar Samostz. The last rain,
aIAs superfuous, has not done much in
.-'y TO the cotton crop, and the outlook
remains fine. -
=, Columbus-T. B. Elrod. In mshy
ia. the cotton crop is in bad coRdi-