The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-14
WEEKLY CROP REPORT


Damage by Floods Co Cotton I'm Texas
Not 10 Great as at First Reported
Washington, July 1.-THE weather
bureau has issued the following SUM-
mary of crop conditions for last week:
The weather conditions of the week
ending s o'clock, a. m, July 10, 1888,
were for the most part favorable for
farming operations and crop growth
in the districts east Of the Rocky moun-
tains, being especially so in the states
of the upper Mississippi and Missouri
valleys and in the Atlantic coast dis
tricts. The week has been marked Dy
the absence of high temperatures east
of the Rocky mountains. Excessive
rains of the past week have caused
some damage to grain in shock in Kan-
sas and similar damage is reported
from Texas as a result of the unpreee-
dented rainfall of the previous week
drought continues in the central
gulf states, Tennessee, portions OF the
Ohio valley and southern Michigan, be-
ing very severe in central Tennessee;
rains are also needed generally through
out the Rocky mountain districts, but
on the Pacific coast the conditions have
been seasonable. While rain-falls
amounting to one-half or three-fourths
of an inch are reported ove a consid-
cradle portion Of the drainage basin
of the Brazos river in Texas, the condi-
tions on the whole have b5el favorable
to the subsistence Of waters in the in
undated districts.
This has been another favorable
week for corn in the principal corn
states, and the corn has generally made
rapid growth. Heavy rains and high
winds have blown down corn I'VE a
considerable area in Iowa; slight
damage from c%hinchbugs is reported
from Missouri, and drought has checked
growth in portions of Ohio and Ken
lucky and caused serious damage in
cenral Tennessee. Cultivation has been
delayed by rains in portions Of Michl-
gan and Wisconsin, but on the whole
the crop is clean and is largely laid by
in the states of the central valleys.
Winter wheat harvest is finished, ex-
cept in the extreme northerly sections
where it is we'll advanced, although de-
layed by rains in portions of WiscOn-
sin and Michigan. In Kansas and
Texas some damage has resulted from
sprouting in shock. In California har-
vesting is nearly finished and wheat
is ripening in Oregon. No unfavorable
reports respecting spring wheat have
been received from the spring wheat
region, except from the central and
eastern portions of South Dakota.
A good crop of oats is being harvest
ed in Indiana and Illinois, and the out
look in Michigan and Ohio and Penn
sylvania is promising. Damage from
rust is reported in Missouri and drought
in South Dakota.
In the central and eastern portions
of the cotton belt cotton has made good
progress although injured to some ex
tent by insects in portions Of Missis-
sippi and Georgia In the Carolinas
it is reported as small, but healthy. In
South Carolina the sea island crop was
never better. Outside the flooded re
. gion in Texas, cotton is doing well and
fruiting nicely, except in scattered To-
calities. where too rank growth ani
some complaints of insects are report.
ed. l will be two weeks yet before thu
, damage to cotton in the flooded districr
of Texas can be determined, or to thu
extent which cotton will be replanted
In thirteen counties in the southern
half of the Brazos drainage basin thu
loss resulting from the flood is esti
mated at from one-third to one-hal
the crop.
Owing to drought, the tobacco acre
age in Tennessee is much reduced anC
the prospects for this crop in tina
state are poor. In portions of Kentuck.
and Ohio the growth Of tobacco ha:
also been checked by drought, bu
generally the crop is doing we'll in tina
; section. In the Carolinas, middle At
lantic states, and New England tn
general outlook for tobacco is improv
ing, the crop being in fine condition
in Maryland.