Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-07-10
THE MAINE CROPS.
They Made Good Show
ing the Past Week.
THE RESULT ELSEWHERE.
A New Kind Of Worm Playing Havoc
With Cranberry Boys.
THE RESULT ELSEWHERE

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England weather service;
Another week of light local showers In
southern states aud 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 9Th and 9th.
The following amounts In inches give
. general idea OF The distribution of the
rainfall during ,'r eek: Maine-East-
port, 10; Portland, 90 wv Hampshire--
Newton. .oa; Brookllnr. j3; Oxford, / 80;
West Milan, L62; 6tratford, .T6 Vermont
-Northfisld, 81; Hartland. l.8a Mass,-
chusetts - Boston, 1T; Middleboro. .25;
Provinoetown, Tt Nantucket, .O4 Rhode
Lsland-Block Island. .ios Kingston, .23.
Conneotiout-New London. 10; Green
field Hill, 81; Lebanon, ,63 The fall in
New York city was i.70 in Albany. L54;
Montreal, LA. and Quebec. Lea
Maine.
All crops made good growth In Maine
during the week, as frequent showers and
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 10 more than
for several years. Grain generally looks
we'll. though rust is striking slightly ia
southern counties Pastures are good.
Corn 10 backward In places. but growing
well. Early potatoes promise we'll, while
late ones are now backward One cor
respondent from Pcnobscot county says
the apple crop. which promised TO be 30
full when blossoming, 10 blighting rap
idly aud will not be more than one-fourth
to one-hah crop This In the ouly un-
favorable report regarding the fruit In
this state.
Now 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, aud
corn has mostly recovered from the early
cold. In southeast counties little OF no
rain has fallen and crops are suffering.
Haying In this section has been pushed
along and some report half done. Far
ther north 10 has Just been began, and
little progress has been made on account
OF the showery weather. Hay IL improv-
Ing and 10 yielding better than was ex-
pected.
Vermont.
At Hartland, Windsor county, VT, 1 q
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
and mostly warm weather. Crops have
grown extremely fast and are all looking
well, except where oats have been lightly
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 1t has
ripened very fast, because of the con-
tinued dry weather Western counties
are not generally suffering for rain, and
che week was most cloudy and threaten
ing, but throughout the greater part of
the east rain Ia 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 IL
30 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 .82 inch since
June /. Where any rain has come at all
corn seems to be doing well, and In places
potatoes also. A blast Of wind. preceding
a thunder shower on the I'd, caused some
damage In Middlesex and Essex counties
by blowing down grain and heavy grass,
and blowing of limbs, and even break
ing down trees In Concord.
The correspondent at Yarmouthport
sends the followingi Grant berry hogs
feel the effects Of the dry weather, so the
blossoms are not setting well. don't
hear of the fire worm having done much
damage, but we have Q new kind Of
worm that some call the army worm that
has totally destroyed a good many acres.
They have appeared on bogs, mostly
where they were flowed mp to June or
later. The worms average about one
inch In length. We suggest that these
worms be referred TO the entomologist at
the Agricultural college, Amherst"
Rhode Island.
In southern Rhode Island the weather
has been very favorable for hsying. and a
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 iIn-
proved and are doing we'll Rain is
needed, especially in the south.
C<nnseticuA
Some sections Of Connections have been
visited by thunder showsrs 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 hsyins. but did little good to the
crops. as the wind took up the water I'm