The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-12
THE FRoSTBITTEN SOUTH.
y COLD COMES ON TOP OF
PROLONGED HEE.

PROLONGED WET.
narious Damage TO Cotton and Live stock
Oranges Escape in Florida, but
ries Remarkable temperatures
Last Week In the South and Southwest.
In the last week some parts OF the South
. have had the everest weather that has been
known In years. md this folio we'd absolutely
the worst weather for i've months that South
erners have ever known. Cold weather In the
South mean more than cold weather In tho
North. Unusually cold weather In the South
usually inGicts serious damage upon the crops.
This has been particularly true this year.
While all crops there have suffered more or
less in the past few days. the weather since
the LIST OF October has been so unfavorable that
the cotton crop has been damaged many
thousands OF dollars. In favorable weather
cotton picking COOS on all through the winter
and almost up to the time the crop for the fol-
lowing year is put in. This year. however.
heavy and cold rains began In the cotton belt
about the LIST OF October. ACCOMPANIED by
heavy winds and interspersed at timer with
snowstorms. The result has been that In
many sections OF the South work on tho plan
tations has been practically abandoned. The
coarser grades OF cotton we're picked before the
bad weather set in. and for this reason there
will be plenty OF tho Inferior grades OF cot
con. The finer grades, at the tops OF the stalks.
were blown out OF the bolls. scattered over'the
fields and imbedded in mud. The rains were
20 heavy that 1t was impossible to take OK carts
through the fields. and 80 an attempt had
to be made to secure the cotton thus scat
tered broadcast.and remove It from the fields
by hand. 1t was said Yesterday afternoon that
much OF the finer grades of cotton in the South
has been 80 stained that its value has become
greatly impaired. 1t was estimate not long
ago that the cotton crop this year would be
about II, 600, 900 bales. REPORTS from the
South Observation-Disclosures that the crop will
not reach more than II. O00,00 bales and
some m had 1t as low as 100000 600
bales.
Reports from Florida indicate that the or
anRe crop has not been very greatly damaged.
but the cold weather OF the past week has
played havoc with garden stun. It appears
that the old wood upon the orange trees
has not been hurt by tho cold snap. The new
growth. however. forced by the unusually
warm weather preceding the cold wave. was
Injured. Just the extent OF the damage to the
new growth has not yet been determined. Or
ange growers In SOM parts of Florida say
that only fruit that would fall sooner or later
the frost. That the loss to orange growers
was not heavier was due entirely to the ample
the approach Of the cold weather. Almost all
OF them built fires in the orange groves and in
has. however, played havoc with vegetables.
The strawberries were particularly hard hit,
and reports from Florida yesterday Indicated
that the strawberry crop will not be half what
it Is probable that the stock raisers OF the
the recent cold weather than anybody else in
the south. REPORTS from Fort Worth. Tex,
growers In the various States of tbs South
west would be more severe than have been ex-
RTs e1ss San N gehIss' wy ye iS GIs's and M6 5n | IN me ths
loss will be SO, per cent. of the entire stock.
The loss to the stockmen OF northwestern
Texas Will reach % per cent. of all the cattle
Nearly every place south OF Washington has
been more or less affected by the cold weather.
The thermo meter at the national capital on
Friday registered 10 below zero. which is the
Is reported. that Congress will make a special
approximation to break up the ice to prevent
by rains. From Little Rock and Memphis it
was reported yesterday afternoon that the
past week. At Nashville the thermometer
Eegistered yesterday morning = below zero.
ture at Galveston. Tex. has not been above
~. AZ Palestine. Tex: they have had freez-
p 1aE T christf i ana 'p Paris rrS' the f@ft tem nassi arc I 6ss
gone as Low as 240 and 10 above zero respec-
Reports from San Antonio yesterday morn
Ing recorded the lowest temperature they have
had there in a long time. 16' above. The ave
week has been 54'. ard at Shreveport. La. the
average temperature has been 36' for The past
body has bean able to find tho mercury in Their
mometers down there since Friday morning.
when the temperature was Ia above. The
or and at Little Rock. Ark. ali records we're
broken. when the thermometer dropped TO -
below
At Helena. Ark. no farm work was possible
during dS,d an ne Nv week: Ihe weather was extremely
river. During, five Of the seven days OF the
week they had snow and sleet and the Their
Ing. The week was the coolest but one in the
dd roppsd as low Mem as 25,a, a b5s and 1nSGr snoW SSg
slees storms were the diversions of Th lrsday
and Friday; They had enough rain at Mobile.
It rained the Thermometer dropped to l0a
above. Rain, began falling at Montgomery.
Ala, on Wednesday and it was still raining
averaged 40. the lowest being 1G' above.
the fr0 cotton selma pa t Sla' oa i is has %rePPo orn ,t that
fall OF snow there on Wednesday. The Their
morneter dropped 70 II, The weeks rainfall
age temperature was AZ, the lowest being DO.
From three TO five inches OF rain fell In sec
tons Of South Carolina and the thermometer
curry dropped as low as 10. Out in Oklahoma
above zero. On Thursday the temperature at
TAMPA was % below freezing: at Jupiter Inlet
2 above. while there was killing frost in Jack
there the thermometer Yesterday morning
S cpaGrIr, get big higher nert than n 10. Just BY way q
er prophets say that n second cold wave will
extend, oyer the Mississippi Valley and the
into Texas. Arkansas and western Tennessee.
and giving freezing weather 10 all the Vest
Gull coast.
ONE or THE M1STTa HERoFs