Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-12
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CROP CONDITIONS.
WEATHER BUREAU SUMMARY
FOR PAST WEEK.

G3y Telegraph tC VirElnan- Pilos.)
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 Il. m. July 10. 1899. were for
the most part favorable for farming op-
crations and crop growth in the dis
ricts east Of the Rocky Mountains, be-
Ing especially SO in the States of the
upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys
md in the Atlantic coast districts. The
week has heen marked By the absence
OF high temperatures cast 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
result 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 needed generally throughout
the Rocky Mountain districts. but on
the Pacific coast the conditions have
| been seasonablc
While r;iinralls amounting to one half
of three-fourths of an inch are report
| cd over n considera bic portion OF the
drainage basin Of the Brazos river in
| been favorable to the subsistence of wa
ters in the inundated districts
IhiS has been another Favorable week
Tor corn in the principal corn States,
and the corn mas generally made rapid
growth. Heavy rains and high winds
nave blown down corn over a consid-
cradle 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
ncSsee. cultivation has been delayed
oy rains in portions OF Michigan and
wisconsin, but on the whole the crop
IS clean and is largely laid by in the
States of thu central valleys
Winter wheat harvest is finished. ex-
cept in the extreme northerly sections
where 1t Is well advanced although
delayed 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. No I'M
laSoraoie reports respecting spring
wheat have been received from the
spring wheat region, except from the
central and eastern portions of South
| Dakota.
\ good crop OF oats is being harvest
ed in Indiana ana Illinois, and the out
LOOK In Michigan. Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania is promising.
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-
sipM and Georgia. In the Carolinas it
IS reported as small. but healthy In
South Carolina the Sea Island crop
was never better. Outside the Hooded
region in Texas. cotton is doing well
and fruiting nicely, except in scattered
localities. where too rank growth and
some complaints OF insects are report
ed. IT VIII be two weeks vet before
the damage TO cotton i'm the flooded
district of Texas can be determined or
to the extent which cotton will be re-
planted. In IL counties in the southern
half of the BRACES drainage basin tho
loss resulting from the flood is estl-
mated at from one-t third to one-ha,f the
crop.
Owing to drought the tobacco acre.
age in Tennessee is much reduced and
the prospects for this crop in that
state are poor In portions of Ken
lucky and Ohio the growth of tobacco
has also been checked by drought. hu,
generally the crop is doing we'll in that
section. In the Carolinae. Middle At
lantic States. and New England, the
| general outlook for tobacco is i'm
proved. the crop being in fine cond,-
ton in Maryland.