Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-07-12
CROP CONDITIONS LAST WEEK.
Generally Favorable in the East
The Texas Flood Damage.


WASHINGTON. July u.-The Weother
Bureau has issued the following summary
OF crop conditions for last week;
Inc weather Conditions Of the week,
ending A. NJ, July 10, lS99 were. for
the most part, favorable Tor farming
operations and crop growth in the dis
tricts east Of the Rocky Mountains being
especially so in the States OF the Upper
Mississippi and Missouri valleys, aud IN
the Atlantic Coast districts The week
has been marked by the absence of high
temperature east of the Rocky Mountalns.
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 unprece-
denied rainfall Of the previous week.
DROUGHT IN GULF STATES.
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
seasonable.
While rainfalls, amounting TO one half
or three fourths Of an inch, are reported
over a considerable portion Of the drain
age basin OF the Brazos river, in
Texas the conditions. on the whole have
been favorable to the subsistence of the
waters in the inundated sections.
CORN.
This has been another favorable week
for corn in the principal corn States. and
the corn crop has generally made rapid
growth. Heavy rains and high winds
have blown down the corn over con-
siderable area in Iowa, slight damage
and drought has checked growth in
portions OF Ohio and Kentucky, and
caused serious damage in Central Ten
nessee. Cultivation has been delayed by
rains in portions Of Michigan and Wis
consin. but. on the whole, the crop is
clean. and is largely laid by in. the States
Of the Central valleys.
WHEAT.
The winter wheat harvest is favorable
except in the extreme northerly sections,
where 1t is well advapced, although de-
layed by rains in portions of Wisconsin
and Michigan. In Kansas and Texas
some damage has resulted from sprout-
ing in shock. In California harvesting
is nearly finished, and wheat is ripening
in Oregon. No unfaYorable reports re-
speeding spring wheat have been received
from the spring wheat region, except
from the central and eastern portions OF
South Dakota.
OATS.
A good crop of oats IS being harvested
in Indiana and Illinois, and the outlook
in Michigan, Ohio. and Pennsylvania is
promising. Lodging is reported from
Wisconsin and Iowa, damage from rust
in Missouri, and drought in South Da-
kota.
- COTTON.
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 Mississippi
and Georgia. In the Carolinas 1t IS re-
ported 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 localities,
where too-rank growth and some COM
plants of insects are reported.
It will be two weeks yet before the
damage to cotton in the flooded districts
Of Texas can be determined or the eX-
tent to which cotton will have to be re-
planted. In the southern half of the
Brazos drainage basin the loss is esti-
mated at from one-third TO one-half the
crop.
TOBACCO.
Owing to the drought, the tobacco
acreage i'm Tennessee is much reduced,
and the prospects for this crop in that
state are poor. In portions of Kentucky
and Ohio the growth of tobacco has also
been checked by drought, but generally
the crop is doing well in that section.
In the Carolinas. Middle Atlantic
states. and New England the general
outlook for tobacco is improved, the crop
being in fine condition I'm Maryland.