The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-23
IT WAS BOTH WET AND DRY.
too ,tUCH MOISTURE AND TOO MUCH
DROUGHT REPORTED.

same sections Struck 1t Right With
"a Happy Medium-W Gather Bureau
sbo,yS the Weeks Effect on All
rrops-GeneraI Condition of Corn
Js SatisfnctOrY-COtton Conditions
practically Unchanged-Rust and
shedding Continue.
Washington. Aug. 22-Following is the
weather bureaus weekly summary of the
crop conditions:
-Vhue there has been an entire absence
of rain over a large part of the country
ss=r of the Rocky mountains, and
drsssbty conditions are quite extensively
r.1orted in New England, over much of
the lower lake region, Ohio and Lower
Missouri valleys and West Gulf states.
Very heavy rains have fallen in the Red
river of the North valley, on the Virginia
ana North Carolina coasts and over por-
lions of the Central Gulf states.
I'm the Rocky mountains and Pacific
coast districts the week has been too cool,
with frosts, causing some injury in noun
famous sections on the 18th and 18th The
report from Cuba indicates that the week
has been generally very dry, and that
crops are suffering seriously over the
greater part of the island.
I'm the principal corn states the season.
able tempera ture and general absence of
rain have been favora BILE for advancing
tha maturity of corn, the genera condi-
ton of which crop is very satisfactory.
although late corn now needs rain in por-
tons Of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys,
iu Oklahoma and in some parts of Kansas
and Nebraska. Cutting of corn is now
general in Kansas and has begun in Okla
h0m1.
Spring wheat harvest has been delayed In
the Dakotas and Minnesota by heavy
rains, which have caused injury to stacked
grain in the latter state. Harvesting has
also been interrupted by rains in Wash
ington and Oregon. In the latter wheat
IN stacks and in shock. a well as stand
Ing grain is beginning to sprout, as the
result of unusual rains during the pas
two weeks.
In Minnesota, South Dakota and Wash
ington oats in shock have been damaged
by excessive moisture, which has also de-
layed the completion of harvest.
over the central and eastern portions of
the cotton belt the conditions of cotton
continues practically the same as at the
close of the previous week, rust aud she'd
ding being prevalent. All reports show
that cotton is opening rapidly, picking be-
ing in progress in the extreme northern
districts. In Eastern North Carolina the
crop was damaged by the high winds at
tending the late hurricane. Drought s
proving very damaging to the crop in Okla
homa and Texas but the weather conditions
have been very favorable for picking, and,
while an average yield is not expected in
Texas, the quality of the staple is good
10 Ohio tobacco is suffering from
drought but in other tobacco states the
general outlook continues favorable. Some
damage has been caused by the high winds
in North Carolina, and moist weather has
been unfavorable for curing in Maryland.
The general outlook for apples is not
encouraging, and in some important apple
states thecrop is very poor. The most
favorable reports are received from Ohio
Indiana and Northern Illinois. In New
York early apples are plentiful, but win
ter apples promise only about half a
crop.
While the weather for the past week has
been unfavorable for plowing this work
has been unusually wen advanced under
The favorable conditions of the previous
Wee1.