The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-04-05

| views with Farmers Reports From
| G.e Eastern Part of the state.
! A SENTINEL reporter has inter
| viewed a number of farmers from
various sections Of this and adjacent
counties relative to the extent OF
damages to crops by the recent cold
wave.
TOBACCO.
The general opinion is that the 30
b&cco plants are all more or less in
jurcd. Where they were sown in a
| protected place and well covered with
plant bed cloth, the damage is not
near SO great. The injury, however,
is greater in some sections than
others.
Ir. V. Thompson, of this city, who
conducts an extensive farm just out
from the western suburbs of Winston,
says that the damage to his plants is
very slight-in fact he is of the opin-
ion that he will not have to resow at
all The damage is not, he thinks, as
great in this immediate section as in
some others.
Eir. Nj. Markland, of Advance,
Davie county, said that the tobacco
plants in that county were severely in
jured. Where the beds were not
covered with cloth, and in exposed
places where cloth was used, Il new
sowing will be required.
S. d. Yestal, Of Stony Ridge, Stokes
county, said almost the entire crop Of
plants in his section were killed.
The report also comes from West
field and other parts of Stokes to the
effect that the plant crop is total
loss. 4 new sowing will be required
which VIII necessitate late crop.
This will Indicate u scarcity of wrap
perS in the 1891 crop as u late planting
rarely ever produces wrapper crop.
WHEAT.
Early wheat is almost if not total
ly ruined. Where iG is sown on high
ly improved ground the sap was well
UP and the plant was jointed. In
such cases an exceedingly poor crop
will be gathered.
However, wheat that was sown
rather late on not so highly improved
land is but slightly injured.
DR.. Thompson said that his crop
was seeded late and was consequently
injured but little.
The farmers interviewed by the re-
porter were of the opinion that the
great bulk of the crop was not so bad
ly damaged as was at first feared.
Only small per cent. of the crop
was joinGed and susceptible to serious
damage by cold.
OATS AND RYE.
These small grains are injured to
some extent. Oats to greater de-
gree than rye. Where the oat was
lately planted and was not yet up, but
q
probably killed. The bulk of the crop
was in that stage of development
that made it susceptible to no
very serious damage.
FRUIT, ETC.
Peaches and cherries are all killed,
so are also those varieties of apples
and pears that were budded or bloom
ing. There may be half crop Of ap-
pies if there are no further freezes.
Reports from several North Caro-
lima towns are as follows:
ROCKY MOUNT.
Reports from farmers as to the dam
age TO tobacco are conflicting. Some
say it is considerable and widespread;
others, that il is slight. r. II. Kicks,
the largest producer in Eastern North
Carolina, says the plants are not dam
aged at all.
The killing frost has nipped the
buds and caused the blooms of fruit
trees to fall, and the gardens will
have to be replanted. So far as heard
from the tobacco plants are unhurt,
where they were covered with cloth,
which is generally used in this sec
tion.
ASHEVILLE.
The mercury went down to- II de-
greeS. 1t scored Is Sunday night.
Peaches have been killed, and it Is be-
lieved that the apple crop has been
badly injured. A good many tobacco
plants have been killed, and some
planters are buying seed for resolving
crop OF plants. No great permanent
injury to tobacco is feared. 1t is
| much milder now.
HENDERSON.
The cold wave has played havoc
with the fruit and other crops in this
section. The peaches, apples and
vegetables are all killed. Some of
! the wheat and oats are killed. Clover
| is lying en- the ground black. All to-
| Dacco plants in exposed places are
destroyed, and some in beds with
| cloth covers on them. Only the very
small plants under covers are consid-
cred safe: The leaves on the trees
are killed.
| VIRGINIA.
The following from Danville pa-
per indicates thatthe same conditions
exist in that section OF the tobacco
| belt:
Information from the surrounding
l-Section is TO the effect that the cold
snap has done great damage to to-
bacco plants.
The plants were far advanced in the
beds and very susceptible to the cold
While the use of cloth coverings fol
the beds afforded protection from
the frost, the hard freeze has beer
very disastrous, and there is great ap
prehensfon among farmers that the
scarcity of plants will be- very seri
GUS matter.
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