Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-23
CROPS AND WEATHER
Rains are Badly Needed in Somo
tons of the State for Cotton
The Crop Generally Promises Well 49,.
Not Been Much Damaged BY Worm, q
Picking Going on.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, Aug. o.,
weekly weather and crop bulletin "a ''s
this evening by the Texas state Wa, .l''
service for the week ending Ap,,,s. =
reports as follows: -
The temperature-During the r..,
temperature has been slightly bs1,-- -
average with less than the AVERAGE 80
shine. ~'
Precipitation-Light showers
fallen pretty generally over +bo
| during the past seven days. eyca1+ s,4's
| of the ninety ninth meridian and -. ~
the thirtieth parallel, where uo1s ~ - u
| fallen. nave
General remarks-The cotton o-,-
| generally doing well. Worms o,a !
| ported from several localities hr,t ~ -
have done no damage and are barfr..--- '
to disappear. Rain is needed west - y.
ninety ninth meridian badly. ~
EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS
Burnet-William NJ. Splitter. Fsrm.-.
are happy and cheerful with the les ,-''
poets for a fair yield of cotton rt, ,os'
| the crop will not be as heavy rs If -
| had good favorable rains. We
New Braunfels-Paul WiDD~aob D.
poets for cotton are splendid O.
has never had more fine bous than =.
| present. Warm weather is needed =
make the bolls open. Picking i ~
full blast and cotton finds a rs,5-
market at from 1O011 cents.
San Mareos-C. W. Gregory III,
cotton plant Is still putting on new frri.
rapidly and will add very much n t5.
aggregate of the crop, which is alraq5-
good. A few worms are reported m.
fleeoy staple is coming into MARI.
briskly and is selling at Ol,aI05
cents.
Graham-O. B. Gaut. Cotton is III.
best ever made here. The rain on tbs
18th was timely, and covered most of the
county.
Fredericksburg Streigler. Tba
last seven days have been very hot and
dry. Cotton is suffering very much. also
pasturage would be benefited by good
rain.
Decatur-H. D. Donald. Cotton look,
well. Some localities report worms doing
damage.
Mesquite silas G. Lackey. Cotton +,
doing remarkably well and is growing
rapidly. There is considerable COM
plant of boil worms.
LOngview-S. NJ. BOughtOn. The boil
worm has made its appearance, but in
small numbers, but the prospect now is
favorable for an average cotton crop.
Palestine-F. H. Fox. SATURDAYS
fine rain viii do cotton q world of good.
The crop will be about an everage.
Corsicana-E. l.. Gibson The rain
has helped the late cotton. Farmers re-
port the crop in good condition. The
boil worm has appeared in some sections,
but have done no damage.
CastrovIIle-H. E. Hass. Cotton is
doing finely. Sales at 10 cents.
Cedar Hill. r. Berry. Cotton PROV
poets are improving this week. Worms
are not doing so much damage, and are
decreasing in numbers. The plant is in
fine condition, but is not open yet.
Columbia. S. Roger. So far worms
have done no material damage and 1t is
believed that there will be a good cotton
crop. AT the same time the crop is not
as large as was anticipated.
MerkIe-J. L. Vaughn. Cotton is
suffering from extremely dry and no!
weather. No boil worms.
Pilot Point-W. L. Moore. The boil
worm has disappeared. Cotton will
probably make half q crop yet.
Brenham-J. G. Sloan. Light rains
have not benefited cotton. Cotton Is
coming in TO market rapidly.
Brownwood-J. T. Mayo. Everything
is needing rain. Cotton Will be failure
unless it rains soon.
Brady-WiIliam H. Potter. Rain Is
needed badly for the cotton and to start
fall crops. The ground is too hard TO
pillow.
Belton-E. A. Sterling. Cotton is de-
velOping satisfactorily. Cool nights and
heavy dews are very beneficial. CoTns
made.
LaGrange-Joseph Gotham. Cotton
worms have appeared at great man!
places over the county.
Navasota-C. E. Hall. The weather
has affected crops favorably.
Lampasas-Dr. c.. NJ. Rosendau'
Some fields of cotton are not suherlng'
but most of the crop needs rain.