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THE SOUTH is BURNING.
Brief Reports-Crop Conditions From all
Southern States.

Brief Reports-Crop Conditions From all
Southern States.
WASHINGTON, May 19.-Weather
and crop statement of the agricultural
department.:
VIRGINIA.
Observation-Disclosures of rain and
high, dry winds have caused deterio-
ration of wheat, oats and grasses from
previous condition; chinch bugs still
on wheat, but not spreading much /;
peanuts, cotton and tobocco being
planted; berries ripening.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh-Excessively warm, dry
week, injurious to all crops; drought
damaging to wheat and oats, and has
killed some young corn and cotton
and delayed tobacco transplanting till
plants have become overgrown; bulk
of corn and cotton crops standing
drought we'll; gardens much injured !;
fruit dropping more than usual.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Columbia-Urgent need of rain;
drought has ruined spring oats and
garden truck generally; also retards
and prevents completion of planting
corn and cotton; excessive tempera'
ture and drying winds prevails; crops
that have attained stands doing fairly
we'll crop conditions best in western
and northeastern counties.
GEORGIA.
,.Atlanta-Week extremely hot and
dry; except in few favored localities,
all crops and vegetation suffering for
rain; gardens and pastures drying up;
some complaint of cotton lice and
and bud dworms injuring bottom land
corn.
FLORIDA.
Jacksonville-Week unfaverable ex-
cept in some gulf counties and limit.
ed sections, where local showers fell
on the 14th and 18th; drouth severe
over large section of west and north
districts in cotton, oats, rice and vege
tables, with orange trees showing i'll
effects.
ALABAMA.
Montgomery-Warm, sunny week,
except scattered showers Thursday !;
cotton making good growth and chop
ping nearly completed: early corn
beginging to tassel, and late corn and
cane healthy, but need rain ; early oats
being cut and minor crops doing well !;
early peaches ripening, but fruit bad.
ly damaged by insects.
MISSISSIPPI.
Vicksburg-Continues generally ia.
vorable weather; timely rains were of
inestimable value to all crops; cotton
growing and some well. ll.cultivated
corn in silk and tassell and being laid
by; more rain needed in few sections
and local complaints of worms and
potato bugs.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans General improvement
in crops since showers of the 18th,
14th and 18th, but rains badly distrib-
uted and more needed; week warm and
sunshiny; corn being laid by; cotton
chopping continues; cane doing well,
too dry for rice; oats ripening.
TEXAS.
Galveston n-Severe local storms
damaged crop, some sections over
northeast portion, but rain over east
ern portion of State materially i'm.
prove crop conditions; rain is needed
over western portions for cotton and
corn; wheat and oats harvest in pro.
gress.
ARKANSAS.
Lite Rock-Weather favorable for
cultivation and growth of all crops;
cotton and corn grow nicely and we'll
cultivated: Irish potatoes much i'm.
proved; sweet potatoes set out and
doing we'll; fruit falling bdaly; con-
ditions not so good as previously re-
ported; wheat and oats only fair.
TENNESSEE.
Nashville-Drought continues Sc
we're in eastern and central portions,
and crops generally rapidly lowering
in condition; good rains in western
portion and crops growing well; corn
and cotton fairly good and being
worked clean; some tobacco set; rain
much needed.