The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-09-12

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The Weather Crop Bulletin for
August, Just issued by the United
States Weather Bureau, is import
ant as affording a means of deter
mining the yield of the years har-
vest.
1t shows that the past-month was
warmer than usual on the Atlantic
coast, in the lower lake region.
Michigan and in all the States on
the Pacific coast, but was cooler
than the average temperature for
August throughout the central val :
leys." The excess in temperature
amounted to about 2 degrees per day
in Southern New England and
Southeastern New York, while on
the Pacific coast the excess ranged
from 2 to 4 degrees. The Bulletin
states that frosts occurred in the
extreme Northwest at about the
usual time (near August 20.) But
the wheat crop was so well advanced
that it sustained only several damage
in the extreme northern portions Of
Minnesota and North Dakota,
though the frosts were quite injur-
ious in the exposed localities of this
region.
1t is worth while to note that
with this somewhat peculiar distri-
button of temperature the rainfall of
August was generally above the
normal for'the month. The excep-
tions were chiefly in the cotton belt,
where the precipitation in most dis
tricts was decidedly deficient.
Although cotton is sun plant
and can stand much dry weather
without very serious detriment, the
drought from which it has been re-
Gently, and is still, suffering is APP
parently serious. Should the rain
lessness of August continue through
the larger part of September the re.
suit may be disastrous in considera-
BILE portions Of the cotton producing
region. The official Bulletin states
that reports from this region indicate
that the unfavorable weather has
resulted in permanent injury to crops
IN some sections, especially in Ala
bama, where shedding will material.
ly reduce the yield, while in Texas
the yield may remain the same as
last year, owing to the increased
acreage" The weather may speedi-
ly improve in the dry districts. but
1t now seems improbable that the
cotton crop will come up to or very
near the average.
As to Indian corn, the outlook is
still somewhat indefinite. As the
Government Bulletin says. the crop
sis late, and will probably require
about two weeks more of favorable
weather to place it beyond injury
from frest." This does not apply.
however, to the condition of corn in
the area from Southern Kansas east.
ward to Tennessee and Kentucky,
where the crop is more advanced.
and is much less liable to severe
frosts than in more northern parts
OF the cotton growing region. A
line drawn from Central Colorado.
north of Kansas, MISUNDERSTANDING
to Chicago and thence to Detroit
marks the average southern limit of
frost prior September Is. But this
limit may be exceeded and frosts
injurious to vegetation sometimes
extended before the middle of Sep
TENDER into Northern Kansas and
eastward to Illinois and even to
Ohio. Middle Ohio on the 18th of
September. In September. 1880,
the first general and killing frosts
were reported in Iowa on the 9th, in
the northern half of Illinois on the
4th and 9Th, and the first local kill
ing frosts in Indiana on the 18th
and IN Kansas between the 9Th and
10th.
1t is therefore somewhat too early
70 forecast the yield of the corn
harvest north of the lower Missouri
and Ohio rivers. The ''cold wave"
which was reported in Montana and
,he Dakotas, with minimum tenn
'erature of thirty-eight degrees
Fahrenheit at Fort Assiniboine and
Helena, Mont, was at first of a
threatening character. But last
nights weather dispatches from the
Northwest indicate. that it's frosts |
will not be killing over an extensive
Irea of the corn producing region if |
Killing at ALL
A study of the data bearing on the
vield of this years crops not vet
harvested leads to the conclusion
hat there will he an abundance of
Wheat, but the corn yield, if not be-
ow, will not be above the average.
While the cotton harvest will proba-
ly be short The meteorological de-
elopments Of the next ten days may
tier the outlook somewhat. But
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