Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-06-11
The weather and Crop Reports.

VIReINIA-The weather and condition OF
crops In Virginia furnished by correspondents
of the U. s. Signal service at the several points
named below fer the week ended Juno 9th. has
been received by the SPECTATOR from the
Lynchburg signal station.
Rainfall about the average except in the
Southwest where there was but little Tenn
peYature about normal with average amount
of sunshine.
Oats and other growing crops have improved.
Wheat is backward and in many places will be
below average. Corn is generally doing well
Remarks complied from the correspondents
are follows s.--a
christiansburg, Montgomery county-No
rain except in immediate vicinity. 1t is much
needed.
Marion, smyth county-OnIy slight rain.
fall, crops n need oft. ...,. s4-.
Salem, Roanoke county-Rain needed. Some
complaint ofinsect depreciation on wheat.
Liberty, Bedford county, short,
and will not be an average one.
Dale Enterprise, Rockingham county-Rain-
fall l. As inches in days. Corn in good condi-
ton. Wheat at a standstill. and will not yield
more than half a crop. Oats growing we'll:
Corn has good start.
Staunton, Augusta county-Rainful lilo In
days. Wheat has Improved.
Summit. New Kent county-Rainfall slight.
Corn and oats looking well. No improvement
in wheat.
Aspinwall, Charlotte county-No rain.
Wheat Data and clover improved. Corn
promising. No Improvement In wheat and
oats. Light fall of rain.
Mossngford, Charlotte county-Rainfall 0.56
in days. Growing crops improving.
Richmond city-Ralnfall LOG in l day. Fa-
vorable weather for young crops.
scottsyille, Albemarle county-Rainfall 90
in days: Crops doing WELL
Lynchburg-Rainfal 0.45 on the 18th.
Normal rainfall for the week about 0.SS of
inch.
Several of the sections of the State reported
grow tobacco, O specific report of which is
omitted. The usual planting season is about
over and in some localities not more than half
a crop is in the ground. Where it has been
planted it's condition is about like that of corn.
THE WESTERN AND NORTHWESTERN STATES.
The following is compiled from the report OF
the Chicago crop correspondent Of the New
York Journal of Commerce. dated June 4th -
1.-THE LIST OF June comes to the northwest with
clearer skies and a higher degree of tempera-
ture than we have enj1yed, ats at any time during
we'll as low degree of temperature has been
one OF the most striking conditions Of the
spring months which have just closed. There
has also been no uniformity whatever u the fall
of rain. For example, Illinois. Indiana, Ohio.
Tennessee and Kentucky have had an excess
Dakota and Minnesota very great deficiency,
and more or less dry weather In Nebraska,
Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. With these mix
ed conditions. the readers of the Journal of
Commerce can see how difficult it is to diagnose
the crop conditions. Up to very recent date,
in the spring wheat areas, the drouth and high
winds had reduced crop prospects greatly. This
outlook however, has been changed (marE
what / say favorabiy for the time being by
rains nothing like, however, to the extent re-
ported by the wires There are no reserves of
moisture this spring in the far northwest.
Copious rains and timely ones never were
seeded crop in Minnesota and Dakota than
during the next thirty days. The corn crop.
with the ample moisture which exists at pres
emit in the southern portion of the corn belt, is
now doing very we'll. In Nebraska and Iowa
corn is little backward. In Kansas and Mis-
souri, however, with the present conditions, we
ought to see by the 10Th inst, the corn crop of
the country brought up to fairly good aver
age. Oats have improved considerably during
the last two weeks. This is owing to the cool,
cloudy, moist weather which on the one hand
, lust the opposite effect on the oats. There will
be no winter wheat cut to amount to anything
much before the first of July. Every week sees
lower average condition than the previous
one. know this is q broad statement, but
feel confident now that the results of harvest
in Illinois and Indiana and everything in
Kansas and Missouri goes to show that the
crops have been running down steadily for the
last thirty days in those States"