The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-13
NEW ENGLAND CROPS.
Crop Bulletin of tho New England weath CT Service.

weather service issues the following crop bulletin for the week ending Jul, 2. 1894,
 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 ir low places on the mornings of the stt and 9th.
 All crops made a good growth in Maine during the week, as frequent | showers and warm weather prevailed Very little having has been done bu, n large crop is promised in most coun- ties. One correspondent says one. fourth more than usual; another that there Is more than for several years Grain generally looks well, though rust Is striking slightly in southern coun- ties. Pastures are good. Corn is back ward in some places, but growing well. Early potatoes promise we'll while late ones are now backward. One cores pondent from Penobscot county says the apple cron. which promised to be rapidly and will not be more than one fourth to one-haif crop. This Is the on- ly unfavorable report regarding the fruit in this state.
 Cooler weather. with frequent local showers, prevailed in New Hampshire, except in the southeastern counties. Where rain has fallen all crops are im- proving. Potatoes have made rapid growth, and corn has mostly recovered from the early cold. In southeast coun- ties little or no rain has fallen and crops are suffering. Having in this section has been pushed along and some report half done. Farther north 1t has just been begun, and little pro- gress has been made on account of the showery weather. Hay is improving and Is yielding better than was expect ed.
 At Hartford, 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 and mostly warm weather. Crops have grown extremely fast and are looking well, except where oats have been slightly rusted. Hay prom ises good crop. Some hay has been cut, but having is not general Pas lures are fuxuriant. Raspberries and currants are ripe and a good crop.
 In northwestern Massachusetts ex- cellent hay weather has prevailed dur ing the week and much has been cut. Much more is ready to be put in as it has ripened very fast, because of the continued dry weather. Western coun- ties are not generally suffering for rain, and the week was most cloudy and threatening, but throughout the great CT part of the east rain is badly need ed, and in many places many crops are already ruined. Oats are rusting and drying up. Potatoes are wilting and in some fields the tops are simply dry and dead. Feed is getting short in pas lures. The ground is so dry that late garden seed and seed for green fodder cannot be put in.
 In WoburR not enough rain has come to lay the dust since May 31. At Prov incetown there has only been .32 inch since June 1. Where any rain has come at all corn seems to be doing well, and in some places potatoes also. A blast of wind, preceding thunder shower on the 3rd, 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 of Yarmouthport sends the following: "Cranberry bogs feel the effects of the dry weather, so the blossoms are not setting we'll. I don't hear of the fire-worm having done much damage, but we have 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 up to June 1 or later. The worms aver age about one inch in length. We sug- gest that these worms be referred to the entomologist at the Agricultural college, Amherst"
 In southern Rhode Island the wealth CT has been very favorable for having, and large part of the crop has been secured. Farther north rain and clouds hoy Halo fo ble extent. Oats are rusting and apples dropping in places, but generally crops have improved and are doing well. Rain is needed, especially in the south.
 Some sections of Connecticut have been visited by thunder showers, which have supplied moisture for the top of the ground. The showers have been scattering and confined to no particu- lar locality. In other sections very light rain has prevailed for one or two days, enough to hinder having but did very little good to the crops, as the wind took up the water immediately. Parts of Hartford and New Haven counties seem to be suffering as much as anywhere. Here tobacco is still growing we'll, but corn has begun to roll potato tops are dying, ,raspber- ries are complete failure, apples are dropping badly and grain is ripening prematurely. Potatoes are being in- jured in most districts, and short crop is now in prospect.
 Corn is generally doing we'll Rye is very fine and is being harvested. Oats are improving in places. Huckleberries and blackberries promise large crop Grapes promise poorly where reported At a fruit growers meeting held in