The evening times., 1899-08-02
THE WEEKLY CROP REPORT.
Favorable In the Main, Especially
to Corn and Cotton.

to Corn and Cotton.
The weekly crop report summary of the
Weather Bureau, issued late yesterday aft
document. Its estimate of conditions in
the corn States is generally considered to
indicate the largest crop in recent years.
The cotton report is also generally be-
lieved to indicate the prospect of another
very large crop.
The report is as follows:
Drought has been relieved in the South
Atlantic and East Gulf States, and bene-
ficial rains have fallen in Ohio and Indi-
ana, but rain is now needed in portions of
New York and Pennsylvania, the central
portions of Illinois and Missouri, and in
Louisiana, Arkansas, the Dakotas, western
Nebraska, and central Colorado Local
storms, accompanied by excessively heavy
rains. have proved damaging in Alabama,
western Florida, and southern New Jersey.
Notwithstanding these conditions. the
week may be said to have been, upon the
whole, generally favorable. the most un-
promising reports received from the Da-
kotas, where high temperatures and lack
of moisture are being seriously felt.
While corn would be benefited by rains
in central Illinois and portions OF Missouri,
Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, the
crop has made satisfactory progress in the
principal corn States, marked improve
ment being reported from the States of the
Ohio Valley. Iowa also reports a decided
improvement, and the outlook in Kansas
Is considered the best for number of
years Early corn is now matured as far
north as Missouri and southern Illinois.
''As in the previous week, hot winds
with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees
have prevailed in South Dakota, causing
injury to spring wheat by premature ripen
ing and shrinkage of grain; and while the
heat in North Dakota has not been so ex-
cessive, the crop has been more or less
damaged. Spring wheat has also sustained
some injury from hot winds in Oregon and
portions of eastern Washington. Over the
eastern portion of the spring wheat re-
gion the crop is more promising. Harvest
ing is well advanced in southern Mime
sofa, where the late sown grain is filling
nicely, and has begun in southern North
Dakota
'Oat harvest is nearing completion in
the more northerly sections under very
favorable weather conditions, except il
southern Minnesota, where considerable loss
will result from lodging. Fair TO good
yields are generally reported.
Complaints Of shedding continue from
ton belt, and while rains have improved
the condition of the crop in the Carolinas,
the excessively heavy rains in North Caro-
lima have proved injurious. Good growth,
is, however, generally reported, especially in
the central and eastern sections and as
rule the crop is fruiting well. Picking is
well advanced in portions OF southern Tex
as, in which State the general condition OF
the crop is promising.
Tobacco is suffering from drought in
New York, and has been injured on low
lands in Tennessee by heavy rains; else
where the weather conditions have been
favorable for the growth of tobacco,
marked improvement being reported from
the States of the Ohio Valley. Cutting and
curing continue in the Carolinas, and will
soon begin in Maryland and Virginia.
Considerable progress with plowing for
fall seeding has been made in the central
valleys and Middle Atlantic States.