The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-07
SNOW GREATLY
DAMAGED TRUCK
Uncovered Strawberries In
jured Fifty Per Cent.
GARDEN PEAS SUFFERED
THE DAMAGE TO COVERED
STRAWBERRIES VARIOUS
Ky ESTIMATED.
N SOME PLACES The DAMAGE IS SLIGHT
Ripe Strawberries Will BE- Sent to Market From
Wilmington Next Week-Po!ato Crop
Injured Near Tden,on.

The early snow did some damage TO
the truck in Eastern North Carolina
.iT WILMINGTON AND VICINITY.
The Wilmington Star says:
Truckers who were III the city from
the country Yesterday reported heavy
frost yesterday morning, and quite q
number of early risers in the city also
reported Il like observation. The dam
age to the trucking interests, however,
so the growers say, cannot as yet he
definitely determined. Some are OF
the opinion that the strawberry crop
is slightly if any damaged, while others
contend that the crop will be off nearly
twenty-five per cent.
"A telephone message to the Star
from MIR. j H. Westhrook, at Rocky
Point, last night, says that damage to
Strawberries in that locality is yariously
estimated at from five 60. ten per cent.
garden peas have suffered most, though
it is impossible TO say how mgch
beans, which are scarcely up yet, are
thought to be damaged very little, while
Irish potatoes are safe. they in a ma
jority of cases having been well covered.
MIR. Westbrook had several acres Of
Strawberries uncovered. which appar-
emily, he says, are injured no more than
those well covered.
"a correspondent of the Star at Cur
RE on the Atlantic and 1adkin, writ
ing, and it was stated that the truckers
crop in that section Is damaged none
whatever. There was no sleSt or
SHOW near Currie Tuesday and the
prospects are bright for Il large crop. :"
The Messenger says:
We noted the remarkable fall of SHOW
in the straw herry region Tuesday morn
ing, and was stated that the truckers
were much alarmed over the threatened
obstruction of their straw berry crops.
We learn from Mount Olive and Faison
that about one-third of the berry acreage
was under cover. and That the crop was
saved. but the blooms of two-thirds of
the acreage not under cover was killed.
This does not mean. however, that the
plants We're killed. ana that there's viii
be no crop. for the plants will bloom
later. The disadvantage will be that the
crop VIII be thrown back.
Yesterday morning there was white
frost III Wilmington and there was con-
siderable ice. Mr.. Sol j. Jones. one of
the leading truckers in East Wilmington.
tells us chat very little damage was done
t, truck. however, because the ground
was so wet from the recent rains. He
says he examined the fruit trees and
he was unable to detect thar much dam
age had been done. Some Of our grow
ers expect TO have RIPE Strawberries next
week if there is no further set back.
IN WAYNE AND DUPLIN.
The Mt Olive Advertiser, published
in the heart of the trucking region,
says:
The snow storm Of Tuesday. April
4th caused heavy loss to our truckers
At the time we 90 TO press it is difficult
to form an absolutely correct estimate
oil the damage to strawberries. but after
diligent inquiries we believe the follow
ing will be found as accurate a report
as can be made at this time.
AT Mount Olive those growers who
depended upon .'natnre and not science"
for weather predictions, covered their
plants: those who pinned their faith
upon the reports issued by the Weather
Bureau. allowed their plants to remain
uncovered. Ii is estimated that only 80
per cent We're covered
"Of the uncovered berries the loss will
probably reach 70 per cent of the berries
and blooms now formed; the damage to
the covered berries will not be over 20
per cent and some growers think even
hess. The average loss will be in the
ncighborhood of s., ID but may vary
several points either way.
AT AND AROUND FAISON.
Faison, n. c., April ).
10 Advertiser: Snow of yesterday
Killed three-fourths of the uncovered
berries and one-f0urth Of those covered,
One-haIf Of our crop was covered Beams
and potatoes that were up We're killed.
JNO. NJ. FAISON.
i III DAMAGE At WARSAW.
Warsaw, y. c., April >.
10 Advertiser: In reply to yours will
say that it is difficult to approximate
with any degree Of certainty the damage
done by storm. 1T looks as though
SO l., per cent of the berries are killed.
W. l.. HILL
LITTLE DAMAGE At ROSE HILL.
Rose Hin, ~ g.. April ).
To Advertiser: In response to your
enquiry of Yesterday as 10 amount Of
by the storm Tuesday, 18th instant, would
say, Judging from the condition OF Der
ries in my own, fields. and from berries
Of other growers, | do not consider much,
if any damage. was done by the storm
Of course such weather by no means
hastens our berries; on the contrary,
regard the crop delayed in fact believe
we are fully two weeks behind last sea-
SON. Yesterdays storm was principally
heavy rain and wind from the north.
with a light sleet and furry of snow
Temperature did not 20 below "a. The
frost last night did more damage. espe.
ciaIly to those fields which had been
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