The evening times., 1899-07-12
WEEKLY CROP REPORT.
Generally Favorable to Spring
Wheat. Corn. Oats, and Cotton

Seheraily Favorable to Spring
Wheat. Corn. Oats, and Cotton.
The weekly weather and crop report of
the Weather Bureau is in general highly
favorable TO all crops, especially corn.
spring wheat, oats, and cotton.
The weather conditions of the week were
for the most part favorable for farming
operations and crop growth in the districts
east of the Rocky Mountains, being es-
pecially so in the States of the upper Mis-
sissippi and Missouri valleys and In the
Atlantic Coast districts. The week has
been marked by the absence of high tenn
peratures 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 result of the unprecedent-
ed rainfall of the previous week. Drought
continues in the central Gulf States. Ten
nessee, portions of the Ohio Valley, and
southern Michigan, being very severe in
central Tennessee; rains are also needed
generally throughout the Rocky Mountain
region, but on the Pacific Coast the con-
ditions have been seasonal, especially in
Oregon, where ideal weather has prevailed
While rainfalIs 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 favor
able TO the subsistence of waters in the
inundated districts.
This has been another favorable week
for corn in the principal corn States, and
the crop has generally made rapid growth.
Heavy rains and high winds have blown
Are-E-va darn 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 Tennessee. 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, except
in the extreme northerly sections, where
II is well advanced although delayed by
rains in portions CT Wisconsin and Michi-
gan In Kansas and Texas some damage
has resulted from sprouting in shock. In
California harvesting is nearly completed,
and wheat is ripening in Oregon. No un-
favorable reports respecting spring wheat
have been received from the spring wheat
region, except from the central and cas-
tern portions of South Dakota where it
has been materially injured by drought.
The crop is now heading in North Dako-
ia and northern Minnesota.
A good crop of oats is being harvested
in Indiana and Illinois, and the outlook in
Michigan. Ohio. and Pennsylvania is prom
ising. Lodging is reported from Wiscon-
sin and Iowa. and damage from rust in
Missouri and drought in South Dakota.
In the central and eastern portions Of the
cotton belt Gotten has made good progress,
although injured to some extent by insects
in portions of Mississippi and Georgia. In
the Carolinas il is reported as small but
healthy. In South Carolina the sea-island
crop was never better. Outside the flooded
region in Texas cotton is doing well and
fruiting nicely, except in scattered locali-
ties, where too rank growth and some
complaints Of insects are reported. 1t will
be two weeks yet before the damage to
cotton In the flooded district of Texas can
be determined or the extent to which cot
ton will be replanted. In thirteen coun-
ties in the southern half of the Brazos
drainage basin the loss resulting from the
food is estimated at from one-third to
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 Kenucky and Ohio the
growth of tobacco has also been checked
by drought, but generally the crop is do
ing we'll in that section. In the Carolinas
Middle Atlantic States, and New England
the general outlook for tobacco is improv-
ed. the crop being in fine condition in Ma
ryland.