The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-12
CROPS MADE GOOD PROGRESS.
CORN AND COTTON HAVE DONE
PARTICULARLY WELL.

Only Slight Damage TO Corn Report
ter wheat Harvest Is About Fin
ishcd-oat Crop Promises Well.
Damage to Cotton in the BrazOs
Valley Not Yet DedniteIy known.
Elsewhere IL Is Doing Well.
Washington. July 1.-THE weather bu-
reau has issued the following summary
OF the crop conditions for the last week;
The weather conditions OF the week end
ing s a. m, July 10, 1893 were for the most
part favorable for farming operations ard
crop growth in the districts east Of the
Rocky mountains. being especially so in
the states of the Upper Mississippi and
Missouri valleys and in the Atlantic coast
districts.
The week has been marked by the alb
sence 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. being very
severe in Central Tennessee; rains are
also good generally throughout the Rocky
Mountain districts. but on the Pacific coast
the conditions have been seasOnable.
While rainfalls amounting to one-half to
three-fourths of an inch are reported over
"A considerable portion of the drainage
basin of the Brazos river in Texas, the
conditions on the whole have been favora-
bic 10 the subsistence Of waters in the in
undated districts.
Good Week for Corn.
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 a considerable area in
Iowa, slight damage from chinch bugs
is reported from Missouri and drought has
checked the growth in portions of Ohio and
Kentucky and caused serious damage in
Central Tennessee. Cultivation has been
delayed by rains i'm 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.
The winter wheat harvest is finished
except in the extreme northery sections,
where it is well advanced, although de-
layed by rains in portions of Wisconsin
and Michigan. In Kansas and Texas some
y
shock. In California harvesting is nearly
finished, and wheat is rpening 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 harvested
in Indiana and Illinois. and the outlook
in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania is
promising Lodging is reported from Wis
consn and Iowa, and damage from rust in
Missouri and drought in South Dakota.
COttOn's Good Progress.
In the central and eastern portions OF
the cotton belt cotton has made good
progress, although injured TO some extent
by insects in portions of Mississippi 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 region in Texas cot
ton is doing well and fruiting nicely. ex-
cept in scattered localities, where too
rank growth and some complaints of IN
sects are reported.
Ii VIII be Two weeks before the damage
to cotton in the flooded district of Texas
can be determined, or the extent to which
cotton in the flooded district of Texas can
be determined, or the extent to which cot
cotton will be replanted. In thirteen coun-
ties in the Southern half of the Brazos
drainage basin. the loss resulting from the
IopL - eS'lhidte" at lOih oHe-tulId 10 one
half the crop.
Owing to drought the tobacco acreage in
Tennessee is much reduced and the pros
poets for this crop in that state are poor.
In portions of kentucky and Ohio the
growth of tobacco has also been checked
by drought, but generally the crop is do
ing well in that section. In the Carolinas.
Middle Atlantic states, and New England,
the general outlook for tobacco is improv-
ing, the crop being in fine condition in
Maryland.