The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-14
NEW ENGLAND CROPS.
AS Reported by the U. s. Department of
Agriculture.

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The .. S. Agricultural Bureaus re-
port as to crops in New England for
the week ending Sept. II Is as follows:
Late corn and potatoes, rowen and
pastures are much in need of rain, and
still in condition in many sections to
| be benefited by the same Remaining
| crops are either mature or sufficiently
advanced toward maturity that mois-
ture would be of little real help. For
the major portion of the district the soil
is too dry for blowing and seeding, which
| are being greatly delayed. Fall feed
! In pastures is very short and scarce on
account of the long continued dry
weather. Apples are ripening and COL
oring rapidly and from a week to
fortnight earlier than the average sea-
son. 1t is reliably reported that foliage
generally is coloring prematurely,
doubtless due to the dry summer and
especially the last half of it. Crops
have not suffered from fIost and there
Is now little opportunity from great
or extensive damage from this source.
The crop season is practically at
fairly satisfactorily
Grass.-Rowen is light crop in all
sections. Owing to the favorable con-
ditions of the weather it is, however,
being harvested in excellent condition.
Ensilage is being cut in many sections.
Pasturage is short and of inferior quail
ity and has not improved
Grain.-Corn is ripening rapidly and
1t Is only in the late planted fields that
there remains any danger of damage
from frost. In numerous sections it is
being cutNand silos filled. The crop
was damaged by high winds in SEQ
lions of the counties of Franklin,
Waldo, and Piscataquis, Maine. TAX
ing the district as whole the crop
will be an average one. The harvesting
of grain is about completed and thresh-
ing is in progress. Buckwheat is in
general in good condition, but the crops
would be benefited by rain. 1t Is
harvested in parts of Rhode Island.
Fruit.-High winds caused much
damage to apples during the early part
of the week in parts of the counties of
Franklin, Knox, Waldo, Hancock,
Aroostook, and Sagadahoc, Maine. 1t
is estimated that fifty barrels We're
blown off the trees in a single orchard, |
at Washburn, Me. A good crop of |
peaches of fine quality is reported in |
vicinity of Ashaway. r. |. Cranberries |
continue in a promising condition and |
picking is progressing very favorably. |
Estimates point to an average crop of |
berries of excellent quality. There is a
plentiful supply of pears, plums, and |
Vegetables.-The weather is entirely |
too dry for turnips. in some sections a
total failure of this crop Is predicted.
In the vicinity of South Portsmouth,
r. l., great damage to melons has re-
suited from blasting. The cabbage
crop, as a whole is not in a promising
Potatoes are being dug in
all sections. The crop is still in good
and there is little complaint
Of damage from rust or rot. Onions
are reported good crop in the vicinity
IF Hadley, Mass, and Woodbridge,
Conn. Garden vegetables of good
quality continue plentiful.
Tobacco.-The fair cool weather has
been very favorable to tobacco The
asst of the crop is now being hung;
Early cut is reported as curing down
nicely; since cool nights began there is
10 fear of damage from pole sweat.
Reports from Leeds, Mass, state that
ate set plants were more or less dam
'ged on the Sd instant by hail.
j. w. SMITH,
Section Director, Boston, Mass.