The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-14
EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENTS RE
PORTS BY COUNTIES.

PORTS BY COUNTIES.
Abbeville. Link: A week Of heavy
rains; all crops on water courses have
been overfowed and about destroyed;
wet weather causing open cotton to
sprout, and ripe bolls to rot; everything
looks gloomy.-R. F. Morris.
Aiken-Windsor: 1t has rained all
the week but two days: cotton sprout-
ing and rotting badly, cannot make a
full crop; great deal Of fodder has been
lost.-B. B. Hightower.
Anderson.-Holland: 1t has been
raining now about week and farmers
are having hard time saving their fod-
der, hay, peavines, ETC.; cotton IS still
doing well, except that some is rotting
in the bolls.-Dr. J. ". Earle.
Bamherg.-Bamberg: Rainy and
cloudy weather; cotton sprouting IN the
bolls; open weather and sunshine need
ed for harvesting hay crop; other crops
doing very well.-W. S. Bamberg.
Barnwell.-Blackville: The pastweek
of almost continuous rain has been one
Of steady, unqualified deterioration,
greater degree in some localities than
in others, and involving nearly every
farm product; corn blown down or sub
murged in low places. rotting IN the
shuck where standing; cotton beaten
into the furrow or rotting IN the boil,
with all young fruit sheded OFF. s.
Hammond
Beaufort.-Bluffton: Great storm on
30-31st; houses blown down, roofs off,
and nearly all damaged to some extent;
corn is on the ground in mud and wa
ter; cotton whipt to pieces, not much
left except stalk; rice covered with wa
ter, hope to save one-fourth Of it; great
fall of water, S inches in y hours-Jno
NJ. Warnock
Berkeley.-Annieville: Rain ruined
cotton and fodder; scarcely any fodder
has been saved; open cotton rotting IN
the bolls.-G. ". Whaley.
harleston.-Charleston: Another
week of excessive precipitation and
largely deficient sunshine; farming
operations far behind their usual, rou-
tine; rice harvest much delayed on ac-
count of frequent rains; sea island cot
ton still shedding badly; tops all IN
bloom with no prospect of top crop;
hay harvest at astandstiil awaiting dry
ness.-L. n. Jesunofsky.'
Cherokee.-Gafney: Fodderis being
pulled but too much rain to save it.:
cotton opening but is rotting in the
bolls.-B. F. Camp.
rfeld.-Chesterfeld: Another
disastrous week for the cotton crop;
much complaint of cotton rotting after
opening; no blooms to be seen; Very
little picked yet; more fodder damaged:
peas and potatoes seem to be doing well.
George ". Spencer.
Clarendon.-Alcolu: 1t has been
rainy and cloudy all the week; cotton
shedding all the top crop, and the bot
tom bolls are rotting; all fodder that
was pulled is of poor quality; cane and
rice doing well.-Elias D. Hodge.
Colleton--White Hall: Weather this
week has been most disastrous to rice.
corn and all crops save potatoes; corn
broken down and land saturated; rice
inundated by freshet; many breaks in
river banks.-W. T. Haskell,
Darlington. Huntington: Cotton al
ready shows great damage from damp
weather, bolls rotting, open bolls
sprouting; lots of fodder and forage
damaged and some entirely lost: pros
poets for good hay crop fine, and with
good weather large quantity can be
saved.-E. r. McIver.
Edgeield. Rained every day
until Friday; nearly all the corn fodder
has burned OF the stalk or was ruined
after being pulled; cotton lost all top
crop. bottom crop rotting and sprouting
in boil where open; pea vines fine. but
few peas on them, and no vines cut
owing to the wet weather. Il. L. Brun-
son.
Fairfeld-Woodward;; We have had
rain every day since August %, caus-
ing great deal Of rot in large cotton
and blight o. late cotton; fodder pull
ing about over, and fodder saved in
poor condition.-Thomas W. Brice.
Florence.-Florence; The cotton IS
fearfully injured by the excessive rain
in many places, the seeds are sprout-
ing in the bolls: the cotton crop Is cut
of, and no topzcrop is made; wet wea-