Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-08-19
Observation-Disclosures Good ra

nice quantity saved; cotton small but
well fruited and promises fair yield ;
potatoes, sugar cane and peas doing
well.-J. G. Griffin.
Charleston.--Charle Week hot
with light thunder showers; grass
crop for hay totally destroyed by army
worms: native grass good crop; corn
in this section good crop; cabbages
very much eaten by web-worms.-H.
NJ. Simonds.
Clarendon.-Pinewood: Had fine
rains this week; cotton is doing we'll;
late corn has improved very much;
very little fodder being pulled owing
to unfavorable weather; the indica-
tions are that the hay crop will be
fine; sugar cane above the average;
no army worms here.-R. $. Des-
Champs.
Colleton.-Cottageville: Very dry
and hot; fodder stripping nearly over;
cotton cut nearly half by drought:
peas poor; hay badly damaged by cat
erpillars; highland rice almost fail
ure sweet potatoes poor.--C. X. Acker-
man.
Darlington.--Societ Hill: Horn
worms have given tobacco growers
much trouble this week, curing contin-
mes; upland corn seriously damaged
by drought accompanied by excessive
heat; cotton has stopped growing, but
is well fruited; it is opening prema-
tur ely moisture needed for potatoes,
rice and peas: rain badly needed in
sections.--Maj. j. J. Lucas.
Dorchester.-St. George: Weather
very dry, interspersed with few light
shower; crops suffering very much; {;
most of the fodder pulled with a poor
yield; cotton opening very fast, not
more than half crop will be picked; :;
rice and sugar cane poor.-W. p. Shu-
Ter, NJ. ID.
dgefield.-Clark Week extremely
hot; cotton shedding, and opening
rapidly; fodder burning up; thunder
storm with high wind and heavy rain
to-day G2th) caused much bottom corn
to be blown down.-Wm. S. Middle
ton.
Fairfeld.-Ridgeway Week very
hot; showers Sth and 10th, with heavy
rain in southeastern portion Of coun :
ty; great improvement in crops; cot
ton was shedding blooms and small
bolls; turnips doing we'll; old corn
will not make over half crop.-E. A.
Sessions.
Florence.-Florenc. Excessively
from 81 to 9S; the drought and hot sun
have caused cotton to open premature
ly; corn and tobacco crops are suffer
ing from the same cause-E. w.
Lloyd.
Georgeown.-Plante Sew
eral cOpious showers during the week
peas and slips looking we'll; rice turn
ing down, and cutting will commence
about first week in September; Le-
Conte pears ripening.-B. p. Fraser.
Greenville.--Greenv Only very
light showers in this locality; good
rains in some portions of the county
crops somewhat revived, but not more
than twO-thirds of crop of corn or
cotton will be made Mrs. s. A. Crit
tenden.
Hampton.--Gilllsonv Week sui
try; 3-59 inches of rain has given wa
ter for stock; fodder pulling about
over with fair success; cotton picking
has commenced, the bolls are opening e
freely.-Sam p. Saltus,
Kershaw.-Tillers Ferry: Severe
thunderstorms on the 10th and lIth,
ccompanied by wind and rain; crops
are growing finely, especially peas and
potatoes; poor stand of turnips; fod-
der pulling becoming general; tobac-
co infested with worms, curing be It
leaves this week, some few are grad
ing.-J. w. Gardner.
Lancaster.-Belair: Rainfall for
May, June, July and August to date
amounts to 7.24 inches; all crops are
small and below an average.-JnO. 4.
kell.
Laurens. Bark dale: Weather px.
trPmply hot with good rama on -tb