Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-05
CROPS AND WEATHER.
Excessive and Damaging Rains Have
Visited Many Portions of the State.
Small Grain in the Shock Sprouting-Cotton
VIII do Well with Sunshine-COrn
Better than for Years.
Special to the Gazette.

Heavy rains have continued to fall
over the state during the past seven
days. The greater part of the small
grain Is still in the field, as there is too
much rain for threshing. Cotton is do
ing better generally than would be eX-
pected, yet it shows the need of less rain
and warmer, clear weather.
EXTRACTS ERoM REPORTS.
Pilot Point-W. L. Moore. We are
having too much rain for cotton and
wheat is likely to spoil in the field.
astroville-Herman E. Haas. Corn
and cotton look well.
Palestine-F. Fl. Fox. Too much rain
for crops. If continued it will be disas-
trous to cotton and injurious to corn.
Granbury-Jess Baker. Wheat and
oats are damaged in the field by rain
Cotton is growing too fast Some cotton
sdoing well.
b MerkeI-J. L. Vaughn. Complaint is
made by the farmers that the rain is in
terfering with threshing wheat and oats
Corn and cotton are looking fine and will
make good crop. All kinds of vege-
tables and fruits are good crop.
Cedar Hill. P. Berry. The weather
has not been favorable for cotton. The
stalk is large, with but few blossoms.
Corn will make large yield. Very
little wheat threshed yet.
Howe-W. NJ. Smith. Wheat and oats
are still5in the shock, and unless it quits
raining in the near future both crops Will
be lost, as they will soon begin TO rot E.
Cotton is looking very well under the cir
cumstances, but the crop is getting
weedy. Corn is looking very fine, but
too much rain has fallen for it so far.
Brownwood-J. T. Mayo. Wheat is
turning out well, though somewhat dam
aged by excessive rains. Oats are badly
injured by rain while IN the shock.
Corn, cotton, gardens, etc.. are growing
fast.
Lampasas-Dr G. NJ. Ramsdale. Corn
and cotton are doing we'll. Grain in the
shock and stack is moulding. Over three
inches of rain fell here on the 30th ult. in
two hours. Bridges were washed away
by the flood.
San Marcos-C. W. Gregory. Too
much rain for cotton, and farmers are
very apprehensive of worms. The whole
country around is resplendent with
lamps set in the cotton fields, and thou
sands of millers are nightly succumbing
to those burning tapers but will they pre-
vent the worms is the question How
ever, most planters here are trying the
experiment. Corn is going out of the
roasting ear.
Burnet-W. NJ. Splitter. Much of the
small grain is being badly damaged in
the fields, and grave fears are entertained
for its safety. Cotton is not doing well
on account of so much rain. Corn is as
n in %Ia
Columbus-F. B. Elrod. Rains have
been lighter than last week, but suffi-
Gent to do some damage. Some farmers
are trying to work out the grass in the
sandy lands. Cotton needs sunshine.
Corn is doing well. The peach crop is
fair.
Graham-A. B. Grant. Corn excel
lent. Cotton doing well. Grain good.
Duval-John c. Edgar. Although
less than an inch of rain has fallen in the
past week, the moist atmosphere has
prevented the drying of wet lands, and
the|effect has been injurious to cotton.
Weeds and grass have almost taken
possession, and unless we have a speedy
return of sunshine the crop will be cut
short.
Austin-Oscar Samostz. The unusual
hard rains have commenced to prove in
furious to the crops. Two weeks sun
SHINE would make the farmers happy
Prospects still fine.
Brenham-J. G. Sloan. Farmers are
gloomy on account of excessive precipita-
ton. All streams full and low places
overflowed.
Fort Worthwhile Dryden. Clear
days, 8; cloudy, 2; part cloudy, 2.
Small grain in shock and also cotton
damaged by excessive rain.
Dallas-M. E. Glass. Crops generally
were progressing fairly well until recent
rains which have been very damaging and
retarding to their progress in growth.
Belton-E "A. Sterling. Wheat fair ,oats
damaged by heavy rains. Cotton on the
upland is looking well, on lowlands dam
aged by rains. Weeds growing rapidly
and if rain continues very little cotton
will be made Corn looks fine but not as
heavy a crop as last year. Other crops
fair.
{ Longview-G W. Krech. Cotton do
ing fairly well; corn dong finely.
Gainesville-D. F. Ragsdale It is
feared that grain is greatly damaged.
Threshing and stacking have been greatly
hindered by rain. Cotton has made fair
growth. Corn is IN roasting ears and
looks wei.
Corsicana-E. L. Gibson. Too much
rain has fallen since harvest for the
wheat and oats Cotton on black land Is
badly in the grass, but on sandy land
farmers are well up with their work
Columbia. S. Rogers. Heavy rains
are reported in all parts of the county
The Brazos river is very high and rising
rapidly. Water is now within four feet
of the top of the banks.
Waco-W. H. Godber. The frequent
and heavy rains are seriously injuring
the wheat and oat crops in the shock.
The cotton crop Is being injured by the
rapid growth of grass and weeds.
Cleburne-P. j . Norwood. Too much
rain in the last three days for the grain
crop in the field. Three inches in two
hours. Five inches in the last forty
eight hours. Oats were injured before
the deluge, and now wheat viii be more
or less damaged.
Mesquite-Silas G.. Lackey. Cotton
has been doing very well until the past
two days. We are having too much rain
and unless it lets up very soon some cot
ton will be lost in the grass.
Floresville-Too wet to pillow.