The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-07-10
WEATHER AND CROPS.
Frequent Showers Had a nost Bene-
ticial Effect.
Weather Was Generally warm-Pros-
poets OF q short Apple Crop In
Maine.


Bv The Associated Press.
BosroS. July 10-The New England
weather service issues the following crop
bulletin for the week ending Jusy 0. 1894;
Another week of light local showers in
oouthern states aud general showers In
northern sections has just passed. 1t
has been cool all the last part OF the
week, with dangerously near frosts In low
places on the mornings Of the sth and 9th.
All crops made good growth in Maine
during the week, as frequent showers and
generally warm weather prevailed. Very
little hayinx 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
woll. though rust Is striking slightly in
southern counties. Pastures are good.
Corn IL backward in places. but growing
we'll Early potatoes promise well, while
late ones are now backward. One cor
respondent from Penobscot county says
the apple CROP which promised to be 30
full when blossoming. Is blighting rap
Idly and will not be more than one-fourth
70 one-half crop. This is the only un-
favorable report regarding the fruit in
this state.
Grain Affected by Rust.
Cooler weather, with frequent local
+ showers, prevailed In New Hampshire. exc
sept 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
ther north 1t has just been begun. and
little progress has been made on account
Of the showery weather. Hay is improv-
Ing and il yielding better than was ex-
pected-
Crops Doing Finely.
At Hartland. Windsor county. Vt, 127
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 slightly
rusted- Hay promises a good crop Some
hay has been cut but haying is not gen.
ersk Pastures are luxuriant. Raspber-
Eiss and currants are ripe and good crop.
Rain Would Bs Welcome.
In northeastern Massachusetts, excellent
hay weather has prevailed during the
week and much has been cut Much
more II ready to be put in, as IL has
ripened very fast, because OF tho COM
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
tho east rain is badly needed. and in
places many crops are already ruined.
Oats arc rusting and drying up. Potatoes
are viking. and in some fields the tops
ars simply dry and dead. Feed Is get
Ting short In pastureA The ground is
% dry that late garden seed and seed for
green fodder cannot be put in.
In Woburn not enough rain has come |
20 lay the dust since May 81. At Province
town there has been only .s2 inch since
June 4 Where any rain has come at all |
eorn seems to bs doing we'll, and In places
potatoes also. A blast of wind. preceding
q 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 Cranberry bogs
Aecb tno euecC8 Oh the ory Weatner, 50 the |
blossoms are not setting well. don't
hear Of tho 6rs worm having done much
damage, but We have q new kind of
worm that some call the army worm that
has totally destroyed good many acres.
They have appeared on bogs. mostly
where thsy were flowed up to June or
later. The worms average about one
Inch in length. We suggest that these
0orms be referred to the entomologist at
Me Agricultural college, Amherst"
Good Haying weather
In southern Rhode Islari the weather
has been very favorable for hsying, and q
large part of the crop has been secured.
Farther north rain and clouds have de-
|ayed 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.
Not Encouraging.
Some sections Of Connecticut have been