The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-07-19
CoUNFRY's CROP CONDITIONS.
The Weather Bureaus Weekly Sum-
mary. Texas Cotton.

The weather bureau has issued the
following summary Of crop conditions
for last week:
The weather conditions Of the week
ending s a. M, July 10, 1899, were fol
the most part favorable for farming
operations and crop growth in the dis
tricts east of the Rocky Mountains. be,
ing especially o in the States Of the
upper Mississippi and Missouri. valleys
and in the Atlantic coast districts. The
week has been marked by 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 Kansas, and similar
damage is reported from Texas as a re.
suit of the unprecedented 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 rainfalls amounting to one
half or three-fourths Of an inch are re-
ported over considerable portion OF
drainage basin of the Brazos river in
Texas, the conditions of the whole have
been favorable to the subsidence Of wa
ters in the inundated digtricts.
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 over consider
able area in Iowa. slight damage from
chinch bugs is reported from Missouri
and drought has checked growth in
portions Of Ohio and Kentucky, and
caused serious damage in central Ten.
nessee. Cultivation has been delayed
by rains in portions of Michigan 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
harvesting is nearly finished and wheat
is ripening in Oregon. NJ 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, Ohio and Pennsylva-
MIA is promising. Lodging is reported
from rust 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 Mississip-
pi and Georgia. In the Carolinas it
is reported as small but healthy. In
South Carolina the Sea Island crop was
never better. Outside the Aoooed re-
gion in Texas cotton is doing well and
fruiting nicely, except in scattered 10,
calities, where too rank growth and
some complaints of insects are report
ed. 1t will be two weeks yet before
the damage to cotton in the flooded dis
trict of Texas can be determined, or to
the extent which cotton will be re-
planted. In l3 counties in the south
ern half of the Brazos drainage basin
the loss resulting from the food is esti-
mated at from one-third to one-half the
crop.
Owing to drought, the tobac:o acre:
age in Tennessee is much reduced, and
the prospects for this crop in that State
are poor. In portions of Kentucky and
Ohio the growth Of tobacco has also
been checked by drought, butgenerally
the crop is doing we'll in that section.
In the Carolinas, middle Atlantic States
and New England the general outlook
for tobacco is improved, the crop being
in fine condition in Maryland.