, 1890-03-06
ON WINTER WHEAT.
Unfa vorable Prospects for
Next Seasons Crop.
REPORTS FROM ALL SECTIONS.
The General Conditions All Point
to the Early Resumption OF
Spring Work.

spring WORK
--
ichiesso THbnnel
The country seems TO he running
into much the same groove, So far
rs the weather Is concerned, as we
went through u year ago at this
date. February, lsso, closed up
with u low degree OF temperature,
an absence OF snow and rain, and
for the season OF the year with the
ground decidedly dry for all spring
operations.
The winter wheat crop then was
practicoilv nt o stondstill Uerr
ma ,Lara i,,,ht anoy.G,lI. y,oro ro-
"'', ',' "sn, 7no" '"''o w.
Po'.e ou' 'i'c 'o"'P''''"'' va"
such tllat the snow renamed on thc
ground only for short time.
During the last fourteen days we
have had the first freezing and
Wv" i's "'"''''' W "'''"',, W "'N
Tborc Ia thia dipnrcncn bct,vron Tho
surroundinys to-day of the winter
wb,ot cron and ,hnsc or a voor ogo,
All through Fcbrunrv md wc
con saw trutb fnllv during March.
thorc nrohaLlv nrvor yos n season
whom tho vintor wheat cron yvns
subjected TO les wide ranges OF tenn.
per.tturc than I'm the spring of 1859.
These conditions told mvorably
upon the final outcome of winter
wheat The pr.sent week uarticu.
Inrly has been exceedingly trying.
and ns the ground over the entire
length and breadth of the winter
wheat belt Is thoroughly sutur.
ated with moisture II viii hc
the order OF the day IN the near
iusirV uo near T, -, liiorv OF ~ VIII
me- H. ,ha ,rosont si,uation which
ouyht tn be REGARDED nj thi. time
and that il that the wheat has been
making little growth, If any, since
the Irlbune's report OF the SIN INST
,,u, ,m
'' ''
The largest percentage ot the
winter wheat crop W'll'l 'o-''aN i
Jo'n''o Is ,ouilu III ne s'',yea " i',', IL,
nessee ana heh'uckS' FARMERS u,
hehtucky are hluci' co'''trmv'' WIN
regard 10 the present cul,.''''"" "'
the crop IN that state Inc warm
weather has put the wheat so far
forward that late frosts would in.
evitnhlv destroy IL. ON stronu
Ground wheat to-day is as forward
as II should bc sixty days from now.
Tho season i'm this state has been
-, v,rar,iin,r, n,, ,r,u,,,,,,
un eN''''I' , '''"'' ,..,i,'
We"'h'r "ii''"S' 'oh''i'"'iN S'"'c
the wheat was planted.
In Tennessee the ground has been
bare all winter. Wheat to-day Il
f,rthcr advanced than in ANY prr-
,.,on. ,,oar NJ, or th. ,,rnund c,r
-, -, 80 go. 4. L.,,,,a,, o,,d a.
,,ra','an,. r., ",' n,, , or a i,rnoiy tncreasnd
pros GUS ',i' =" " '''s''S 'n'''"''',
acreage FARMERS are wen advanced
with their work.
The main trouble to-day Is the adj
vauCed stage of the growing crop of
.,yinter >yhnnt and the pro-p octi,
',,,.,.,.,, ,,a.tLor botuo.n u,,v and
''''
April
An old whcat-groWer III leniies-
see says that a good many years ago
the entire crop of wheat was de-
strnyed in that slate by freeze
after iointing, butan ordinary freeze
would not Kill the " heat. Ns far as
The stock ~ concerned, when once
inhircd hv frost II il gone for uopd.
hut IL will grow up again from the
roots, and while the yicld may not
' 50 larRe, VIZ ~ploIiuil'."1 ~ e,t uil-
lyss ,'.' a'Uiu lii o''.,,i, a,-i1'tmli,
SS The c,rlv iointed wheat hns brcu
cut down already. Others seem to
think that II not injured 10y II freeze
the wheat vii! have exhausted Itself
when warm weather comes, nhl IN
stead oil maturing II WIN urn SrlloW
ailu i'3t ,a mcna 'uu Ptui%ii'S S.,d oori,.
li,,- v" poa"i ir,. snall migLt n,nltc
a mod cron hut n wet. warm snriup
would ruin il.
Until the present week Texas has
reported continuous warm weather
and the growing wheat crop IN
fiOutishlng condition, lhere Is not
much fear OF the late irost dong any
considerable amount OF damage;
Farmers have gcnefnily pnStufed
their growing wheat, and thus Kept
1t down. Consequently little, II any,
has jointed,
Considerable wheat Is now being
brought into Texas from the states
of Kansas and Missouri.