Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-06
Crop Reports.

Ou lu0 WuOl0 uu1dVOidO1o. w Illus,
dust and sandstorms have done
considerable damage in several
States, including Missouri, Hi
nois and Kansas. Growing crops
in the last named State have,
| however, been benefited by rain,
which was badly needed The
Government report from Kansas
was favorable, particularly corn.
In most Of the States corn IS
doing as well as could be ex-
pected with so much cold wealth
er last month. It is making
headway slowly, Texas promises
to produce a good crop, as usual,
A week or two Of warm weather
would be of immense benefit to
corn in Missouri, Illinois and ad
joining States.
Wheat prospects have changed
very little in the last week. A
light crop will be harvested in
the vicinity of St. Louis, but a
little farther north the yield will
probably be nearly up to the
average. In Northern Illinois
wheat is reported to be in fair
condition. The yield for the
entire country is not likely to
fall much below the average
Reports from the big wheat
fields of the Northwest are favor
able, and so are those from the
Pacific Coast States.
Cold weather has retarded
vegetation of all kinds in Ar
kansas. Wheat, corn and oats
in that State are in fair condi-
ton, but cotton has suffered con-
siderably. Similar reports come
from sections of Texas In many
portions of the State all kinds of
grain seem to be getting along
splendidly, while in other sec
tions a good deal Of damage has
been done. Taken as a whole,
the outlook in Texas is promis-
ing for cereal, particularly corn
and oats. Cotton, however, is
not doing SO we'll. Rain, hail
and weeds have all helped to in
jure the crop in a considerable
portion of the State. The latest
reports are more encouraging,
and with good weather Texas
may yet produce her usual % per
cent of the worlds entire cotton
crop.
The most interesting portion
Of this weeks crop report re
lates to fruit. Missouri, Illinois,
Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and
about every other State in the
Mississippi Valley promise a big
yield Of fine fruit this year.
There will be apples, pears,
peaches, plums, apricots and
cherries in abundance. Vege-
tables, too, are doing we'll Where
replanting was made necessary
by the freeze a couple of weeks
ago, the new crop is reported in
good condition. In the vicinity
of St. Louis comparatively lit
tie damage was done by the
! freeze.
Unusual Number OF New Southern
Industries.
BALTIMORE, May 3O.-The
Nanagacturers' Record reports the
past week to have produced 6
greater number of Industrial en-.
terprises in the South than il
any one week for years. While
there is no let up in the cotton
mill building spirit, the Recore
says, there is quite a marked
revival in iron aud steel matters
Furnaces that have been idle fo1
many months have gone into
blast at Florence and Sheffield
Ala, Arrangements have beer
completed for starting up the
big furnaces steel plant at Mid
dlesborough.
A large steel plant will bt
built at Bessemer, Ala. A stee
plant is also to be built at Bir
mingham by the Birmingham
Rolling Mill company.
In cotton mill matters this has
been one of the busiest week:
since the revival in this industry
commenced, several new mills
have been contracted for.
Arrangements have been com
pleted for the building Of th'
$35O,O00 beet sugar plant a
Bowling Green, Ky., by German
canitaliStS Contracts have beel
let for the machinery for $500,
900 sugar mill in Louisiana, t.
be the largest ever built III tha
State,