The record-union., 1892-06-14
THE GROWING CROPS.
Their Condition, as Shown by the
Observers Reports.
It is Thought There VIII be Only {
Two-Thirds Hop Yteld-Peaches
are Doing Well.


conditions for the week ending last night,
as reported to Director Barwick by the
numerous voluntary observers scattered
throughout the State, and issued by the
State Agricultural Society, in co-opera-
ton with the United States Agricultural
Departments Weather Bureau Branch:
Humboldt County reports favorable
outlook for most all the crops. In some
portions of the county the peach trees are
dropping their leaves.
Shasta County reports the fruit pros
poets as very good in Happy Valley.
The Sacramento Valley, generally
speaking, reports all crops as doing quite
well. The hay crop viii be good one,
although slightly damaged by the local
rains of the 8th and 9Th.
Red Bluff reports the fruit crop as
abundant, and of excellent quality, but
from some cause or another probably
late frosts) the raisin grapes are dropping
badly.
The same report comes from the
Fresno vinyards, the cause of which IS
unknown.
There has been some damage by the
high winds threshing the grain and
barley from the heads in the fields that
AS general rule, the week ending last
night has been an extremely cool one for
so late in June, and the weather has re-
tarded the rapid ripening of grain, fruits
and berries, and prevented Cutting OF
the markets, which certainly is good
thing for the grower, If not for the pur-
chaser.
About all the fruit that will be more
than an average yield will be peaches.
Reports from all over the State generally
speak very favorably Of the prospects.
That the season for hops is peculiar
one is generally admitted by all people.
Conservative and competent judges do
not venture in giving an approximate
estimate of what the yield will be, owing
to the peculiarities of this season, which
are something unknown to growers of
long experience The coming weather
may materially change the present pros
poets, either for better or worse. Under
the present circumstances and conditions
the prospective yield may now be esti-
mated at about two-thirds Of a crop
throughout the entire hop-growing dis
tricts of the State.
The cry generally goes up all over the
State for warmer and more settled
weather. Harvesting has begun in
few localities, and will be general over
the great wheat belts of the State during
this and the coming weeks. Stanislaus
County expects to have new wheat on
the market by next Saturday, the 18th.
In the MonteZuma Hills (Solano
County, section the grain will be some
what shrunken on account of the recent
hot wave.
Napa County reports that warmer
weather is needed to develop the fruits,
and that cherries are being shipped East
by the carload lots.
Alameda County reports barley
slightly injured by the hot wave. Hay
lz4,z Il Il
Peaches and prunes are doing well.
Pears are scabby andapricots rusty.
In Santa Cruz County cherries and
prunes were greatly injured by the frosts
late in May, and barley by the hot wave
in May, but late crops were benefited
greatly by the late rains. The wheat and
barley yield will be below the average
but oats will be good crop.
In Monterey County the cool weather
has been beneficial to grain. The hay
crop is light, but fruit promises a good
yield.
Nevada County reports the cold weather
as retarding haying, on account of the
slowness in curing.
San Luis Obispo County reports the
heavy trade winds as doing damage to
beans by blowing them down or break
ing them off.
The heavy thunder and lightning storm
IN San Joaquin County on the Sth did no
dppobA bASLAt IteiuldsS W nay OTdlH Is SLOWLY
ripening, and harvesting will be, Of
course, later than usual.
Stanislaus County expects an average
yield of grain. Rye harvesting has been
going on for some time, but the grain
ripened in spots, thereby making har-
Yestlng slow process.
In Tulare County the continued cool
and rainy weather has damaged all crops
in the vicinity of Visalia, but there will
be lair crop OF peaches and prunes. All
other fruits are short.
Glenn County, in the vicinity Of Will
lows, reports peaches ripening, and the
crop will be an unusually good one.
Amador County reports continued cold
weather, with streaks of thunder and
lightning, which struck in several places
in the county. Frosts near Coyoteville
have nipped the vegetables and fires are
glowing in the CRATES. 1t seems more
like autumn than summer. The hay
crop in Amador Is generally good The
sheep and dairymen are leaving daily
with their stock for the mountain ranges,
where they will remain for the next three
or four months.
The following dispatch from the OBJ
server at Los Angeles shows the condi-
ton in Southern California: High west
erly winds on the 9Th injured the bean
crop, necessitating the replanting of the
same. The wind blew off some fruit,
while the rain IN some localities injured
slightly the hay that was lying in the
fields. Generally the weather has been
fair and fav blo