The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-06
THE WEEKLY
CROP REPORT
Cotton Stands the Drought
Better than Any Other
Crop.
1T FLOURISHES ON IT
TOBACCO NEEDS RAIN MORE
THAN ANY OTHER CROP.
CORN NEEDS RAIN VERY MUCH
Wheat is Housed or Stacked, lhrashing |:
Progressing Rapidly, Rice isGrowlng Well,
Peanuts Need Rain, Gardens are
Sffarinu for Rain
Suffering for Rain.

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For week ending Monday, July A..
1895 During the week ending Monday
June 4th. 1893, the temperature was
continuously above the normal. the eN-
cess averaging in the central portion oil
the State about degrees daily. Maxi
mum temperatures exceeding so degrees
occurred on every day of the week. The
excessive heat was the natural accom-
painment of the prevailing clear sky and
continuous sunshine. Local showers oc-
Cured over few counties in the interior
and along the coast, but generally the
week was extremely dry, and at the end
drought was prevailing everywhere. Ac-
tive cultivation, has prevented much
damage as yet and crops continue to do
fairly well. The weather was excel
lent for farm work, laying by crops,
threshing and haying.
Corn has made some progress, though
it is now needing rain very much; laying
by old corn is i'll progress i'll the west
and is mostly completed elsewhere:
though tasseling low, it is thought the
crop will bear well. Cotton is standing
the drought better than any other crop.
In fact. the warm weather following the
local showers and low temperatures of
last week caused considerable improve
ment i'm cotton during the early part of
the week. and in many fields lice have
nearly disappeared. but the long contin-
,lation of the dry weather is becoming
injurious. The general condition of the
cotton crop is below the average; good
many fields are still suffering from lice,
which have caused irregular stands in
some sections. The crop is small but
clean and blooming more freely.
Tobacco needs rain more than any
other crop now: cultivation will only
help a few days longer, and already n
few reports of firing have been received.
The plants have become irregular in
size; some topping has been done.
Wheat is all housed or stacked: cutting
spring oats and rye is being completed:
threshing is progressing rapidly. The
yield Of all small grains is slightly better
than expected and in some instances is
unusually heavy Rice is growing well
hut is little grassy. Peanuts need rain;
they are blooming. Some haying has
been done Sweet potatoes and gardens
in the coming week would place crops
in excellent condition, but much longer
continuation of the present drought will
be disastrous.
REMARKS BY CORRESPONDENTS
eastern District)
Hilliardston.-Hot and dry; tobacco
and gardens suffering for rain, but cot
ton and corn doing WE'LL oats all saved,
crop short.-Geo. Il. Cooper.
Eure.-Week very warm: corn about
all hiled; cotton in good order and grow
ing nicely; rain needed.-R. c. elton.
Wildwood. Corn is about all laid by;
farmers are well up with their work:
crops all looking well.-A. Murdoch.
Castle-Fne growing weather the en-
tire week; crops are good and well work
ed.-W. Fl. Shearin.
Rosehll.-Fine seasons during the
week: corn and potatoes looking line;
cotton not doing rs well as usual; farm
ers generally well up with their work.
w. X. Sutherland.
CENTRAL DISTRICT.
Star.-Week generally very warm ana
dry; rain needed; crops of all kinds in
this section suffering; cotton standing
drought better than any other crop
and doing very well.-N. II. Guyton.
Germanton-Weekf favorable for gath
ering and threshing wheat. which is pro-
crossing rapidly: laying by corn: tobacco
is irregular and hardly an average crop;
weather has been exceedingly warm.-
w. Il. Harris.s
Stokesdale.-Very warm and dry; to-
bacco and corn needing rain; gardens
failing; oats short and poor.-H. L..
Cant.
Waxhaw.-The past week has been ia
vOrable to crops, which are growing
finely: good rains in this section.-L. L..
Fincher.
notwithstanding dry, though crops
not yet suffering much; work pushed
this week: wheat turning out fairly
WE'LL cabbages dying: cotton and con
doing well. but cotton lice still at work;
peas. potatoes and melons doing WE'LL
G. J. Henry.
WESTERN DISTRICT.
Dogwood- and hot: rain needed;
laying by crops and finishing cutting OF
spring oats: fruit very scarce; gardens
not gOod.-T i. Clarke.
Henrietta.-No rain this week. Gotten
looks well and corn fairly well, but rain
is needed.-S. B. Tanner.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hot and dry
cotton blooming; corn being laid by.-G.
c. Shinn.
Charlotte.-CrOps needing rain very
much, especially cotton and corn; cotton
is clean but short: wheat is turning on
well. one crop of 2O3 acres threshing
over 1000 bushels.-R q. Grant.
Concord.-The hot dry weather has
materially injured garden vegetables and
if it continues the situation viii soon
become critical for the corn crop; cotton
is fourishing.-J. L. Gibson.