The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-04-12
COL j. FROST BIT !
Reports 10 The Chronicle Show That
He Was in Ii.
All the Eastern Part Of the State Wilted
at His Visit.
GRAPES ARE SAID TO BE ALL RIGHT
reaches and Other Fruits, as Well as Veg
etables, Go Down Before His Stern
and whitening Glance.

ttaDiek, 10 Down Before His stern
and withering Glance.
The State Chronicle this morning con-
tsins the following: Sundays cold snap
was quite extensive and the frost of Sun
day night affected vegetation in marked
degree. Private kilograms from Florida
report great damage to fruit and truck.
The folio wing specials tell the story:
| COLUMBIA, S. c., April 1.-THE truck
crops around Charleston have not been
injured as yet by The cold snap.
WILMINGTON, N. c., April 11.-There
| was frost and ice in this section Sunday,
but truckers think that the damage
faround Wilmington is slight. In Duplin,
Sampson and counties north of here the
damage to vegetation has been severe
| New BERNE, N. c., April 11-There
! was light freeze here Saturday night,
but the frost of Sunday night was heavy.
/ Beans, cucumbers, cantaloupes, squashes
and watermelons are nearly all killed.
Truckers are now blowing up and re-
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of frost and are killed to the ground ;
they will survive but are seriously in
jured. All peas in bloom much hurt.
Looses quite heavy.
| AT RALEIGH.
| Saturday night was cool and there
were fears of frost, and the temperature
was low. Luckily the wind blew sll
night and there was no frost, though
ice formed and the ground was frozen
The wind blew all day Sunday and it
was quite like March, but soon after
nightfall ceased. Yesterday morning
there was a sharp frost. The temper,
atuTe Sunday morning and yester.
! day morning, as taken by the official
instruments en- the roof of the agricul.
tural building was 80 degrees, or de.
grees below the freezing point. The
cold winds did damage to truck and laid
the Irish potato plants out Sunday morn
ling. The frost put in some more work
on these and also did damage to the peas
and all other tender vegetables above
lground. There was naturally much so
licitude as to the extent of the damage
done the fruit. The peaches and plums
are badly injured. This is ascertained
from many sources. The really warm
weather OF last week had forced all veg
etables and rendered it particularly sus
ceptible to the cold Mr.. Bilyeu, who is
an expert as to grape culture, says the
damage to the vines is small, as far as be
can now see. He says the fruit crop is
hurt badly. Mr.. Robinson, commissioner
of agriculture, says he fears the truck
crops are greatly damaged by cold winds
and frost, particularly on farms neal
streams or bodies of water. Irish pota
toes, once hurt by frost, do not amount
30 much. Saturday night there was nc
moisture. The wind kept the air dry
Sunday night there was moisture.
Capt. B. p. Williamson spent several
hours during the afternoon yesterday al
his farm and carefully inspected his fruit
trees. He said 10 reporter Il neve,
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down and scalded the clover and grass
and the peculiar smell of the latter was
observable as sosn as entered the fields
They look as if fire had swept over them
AS far as l can see the peaches, cherries
and pears are all killed. The plIms are
not quite all killed. The potatoes, beans
&c, are literally cut down. The damage
is very severe, and declare | felt really
sad as l walked through my orchards and
saw what had been done by the frost.
Mr.. II. Mailer, whose vineyard south
east of Raleigh is so we'll known, said
Il have made an inspection of my vine:
and | estimate that about one third of the
crop of grapes is killed. Really the dam
age is not so great as l feared, for the
weather was very cold"
AROUND DURHAM
The general impression of the fruit
growers in and around Durham, mum
Der of whom The GLOBE has interviewed
to-day, is that the peach and small fruit:
are entirely ruined, so far as this crop i:
concerned, and that tender plants of al
kinds are seriously injured by the colo
snap
Col. Robert Carr, who came down to
day from Hillsboro, reports the orchards
at Occoneechee weary waste of blightec
hopes, with the single exception of th'
apples, which still hold out against tnt
elements and defy the remorseless hant
of Jack the Napper.
Col Charley Whitaker says that spring
watches and watch springs are badly
bitten and predicts in consequence
short crop.