Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-11
MAINE WAS FAVORED.
All crops Made Z Good Growth During Inc
asst Week.


last Week.
Boston, July 1o-Ths following crop
bulletin was issued to-day by the New
England weather service:
Another week of light local showers In
southern states and general showers IN
northern sections has just passed. IL
has been cool all the last part OF the
week, with dangerously near frosts In low
places on the mornings Of the Sth ana s.n'
The following amounts in inches give
a general idea of the distribution OF the
rainfall during the week: Msine-East
port, .l6; Portland, .O6 New Hampshire
Newton, .02; Brookline, SO; Oxford, Loo;
West Milan, lS2; Stratford, &c. Vermont
Mortified. 81; Hartland. 1.6S MASH
chusetts - Boston, IL; Middleboro, .so'
Provincetown, T; Nantucket. .O Rhode
Island-Block Island. 10; Kingston, .2S.
Conrecticut-New London, 10; Green
| field Hill, 81; Lebanon. So The fall In
New York city was 176; in Albany. L5A;
Montreal. LA. and Quebec. liza.
All crops made good growth in Maine
| during the week, as frequent showers ana
generally warm weather prevailed. very
| little haying has been done. but large
crop is promised in most counties. One
correspondent says one-fourth more than
| usual; another that there is more than
| for several years. Grain generally looks
| we'll, though rust is striking slightly In
southern counties. Pastures are good.
Corn is backward in places, but growing
,ycaS
late ones are now backward. One cor
| respondent from Penobscot county says
the apple crop, which promised to be so
| full when blossomingp is blighting rap
| idly and will not be more than one-fourth
to one-half crop. This is the only I'M
favorable report regarding the fruit in
| this state.
| New Hampshire.
| Cooler weather. with frequent local
showers, prevailed in New Hampshire. ex-'
cept in the southeastern counties. Where
rain has fallen, all crops are improving.
Potatoes have made rapid growth. and
| corn has mostly recovered from the early
cold. In southeast counties little or no
rain has fallen and crops are suffering.
Haying in this section has been pushed
along and some report half done Far
| uQer uOrlu IL HAS JuSt pecu ucSuu, anu
| little progress has been made on account
of the showery weather. Hay is improv-
ing and is yielding better than was ex-
| pected.
| At Hartland, Windsor county, Vt, 1.27
inches of rain fell in the shower of the
9th, doing some damage by lodging oats
and soaking hay that had been partly
cured. Rains were general. with cloudy
1 and mostly warm weather. Crops have
grown extremely fast and are all looking
well, except where oats have been slightly
rusted. Hay promises good crop. Some
hay has been cut, but haying is not gen.
eral. Pastures are luxuriant. Raspber.
ries and currants are ripe and good crop.
| Massachusetts,.
| In northeastern Massachusetts, excellent
hay weather has prevailed during the
week and much has been cut. Much
more is ready to be put in, as it has
ripened very fast, because of the con-
tinued dry weather. Western counties
are not generally suffering for rain, and
the week was most cloudy and threaten
ing, but throughout the greater part of
the east rain is badly needed, and in
places many crops are already ruined.
Oats are rusting and drying up. Potatoes
are whiting, and in some fields the tops
are simply dry and dead. Feed is get
ting short in pastures. The ground is
so dry that late garden seed and seed for
green fodder cannot be put in.
| In Woburn not enough rain has come
to lay the dust since May 81. At Province
town there has been only 80 inch since
June l. Where any rain has come at all
corn seems to be doing we'll, and in places
potatoes also. A blast of wind preceding
| a thunder shower on the Sd. caused some
damage in Middlesex and Essex counties
by blowing down grain and heavy grass,
and blowing off limbs, and even break
ing down trees in Concord.
| The correspondent at Yarmouthport
sends the following: Cranberry boys
feel the effects of the dry weather, so the
] BLOSSOMS are not setting well. l don't
hear o. the fire worm having done much
| damage, but we have new kind of a
worm that some call the army worm that
has totally destroyed good many acres.
| They have appeared on boys, mostly
| where they were flowed up to June or
| later. The worms average about one
inch in .ength. We suggest that these
worms be referred to the entomologist ut
Rhode Island.
In southern Rhode Island the weather
has been very favorable for haying, and
large part of the crop has been secured.
Farther north rain and clouds have de-
| layed operations to considerable extent.
Oats are rusting, and apples dropping in
| places. but generally crops have i'm
| proved and are doing well. Rain is
| needed, especially in the south.
Connecticut.
Some sections of Connecticut have been
visited bythunder showers, which have
supplied moisture for the top of the
| ground. The showers have been scatter
ing and confined to no particular local
ity. In other sections very light rain has
prevailed on one or two days, enough to
hinder haying, but did little good to the
| crops as the wind took up the water i'm
mediately. Parts of Hartford and New
Haven counties seem to be suffering az
much as anywhere. Here tobacco is still
growing well, but corn has begun to roll.