The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-14
All Crops Show a Marked
Improvement
COTTON is DOING WELL
And Where it Has Been Worked the
Crop Will be Good.
CORN HAS COME OUT woNDERI UllY
The Cutting and Curing Of lob acco is Now in
Process. The Apple Crop is Poor. The
Hay Crop Was Saved in Good
cond;,:on
Condition.

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Condition.
The Weekly Crop Bulletin issued yes.
terday by the Weather Bureau here SAYS
that the past week was characterized by
very heavy rains from Monday to Wed
ncsday, inclusive, which were followed BY
fair. warm and very favorable weather
The rainfall averaged nearly inches
above the normal, but was very beneficial
in nearly all the counties of the eastern
district, along the northern border OF
the State, and in the extreme west, where
the drought was generally broken and
crops materially improved; in the south
ern portion, however, the heavy rains
washed cotton and corn lands badly in
some localities, and resulted in heavy
freshcts with overflow of lowlands and
some damage to stacked hay and other
crops. The floods in the larger rivers
eliminated on the 9Th. The temperature
averaged about degrees above the
normal for the week.
On the whole the reports of correspond
ents were generally favorable and indi-
now be possible after season so uni
formly bad as the present one.
Cotton improved generally during the
week; late cotton was revived, is vigorous
and will reach sufficient size to give
good yield with late autumn; old
cotton seems to be holding it's fruit well
and very few reports of shedding have
been received, but the hollis are still
scattering on the plants. 1t may be said
that in some sections where the crop was
well worked cotton will be good, in most
others fair to very poor.
Corn has come out better than expect
ed; great deal Of corn was planted
very late, and it now looks very we'll,
except on bottomlands, where crops are
practically non existent; fodder is ripen-
ing.
Some Improvement in the growth OF
late tobacco occurred; cutting and curing
continued during the week.
Field peas and sweet-potato vines are
tine. Peanuts promise a full crop and will
be ready for digging soon. Turning land
for wheat is progressing slowly tur-
nips are being sown and the seeds are
sprouting nicely.
Special reports on the apple crop indi-
cate a poor yield almost everywhere; APP
pies are knotty and not well formed, are
rotting or falling before maturity, and
the need of spraying was manifest this
season.
The early hay crop was saved in good
condition, but rains and freshets injured
some of the late crop; a large amount
of pea-vine hay will be made later in the
season.
Rains during the week Gin inches): Hex
5.55. Auburn so, Wharf 500. Clarkton 2.55,
GoIdsboro 3.56, Greensboro sos, Lumbcrton
2.24 Newborn 2.1S, Weldon sos, Charlotte
$50, Wilmington 1.30, Raleigh 5.93.
EASTERN DISTRICT
Ahoskie, Hertford: Weather conditions
during past week have been all that
could be desired have had good rains and
all crops seem to be doing we'll; apples
are short crop and fruit inferior.-A. G.
Baymore.
Pikeville, Wayne: Apple crop poor, not
over half crop; prospects for hay good, at
least for pea-vine hay; cotton has big
weed but very little fruit: corn poor.-S.
F.. Blow
Armour, Columbus: Corn crop cut short
fully two thirds; cotton doing badly; hay
crop poor; apples nearly a failure.-W.
j. Elwell
Richardson, Bladen: Crops have i'm
proved since last report, but corn and
cotton are small, will average half crops;
very good crop of apples and grapes
Jos. Hester.
Washington, Beaufort: Apples very
poor and crop small; quality of hay good,
crop short; grass has the better of crops,
which is partly due to scarcity of labor:
past week very wet.-Dr. j. M. Gala
CHER.
Whitakers, Edgecombe: Hay is of good
quality and average yield cotton is MAX
ing large weed and growing rapidly, bolls
scattering; corn is good crop where prop
erly worked; apples knotty and poor
w. II. Cobb.
Clarkton, Bladen: With good harvest
ing weather this section will produce a
large and fine crop of pea-vine hay; yield
of apples is large but not very good; cot
ton is holding its fruit well.-Samuel
Meares.
CENTRAL DISTRICT.
Albemarle, Stanley: Very much rain
past week and big freshet. crops DANA
ged considerably; much damage to hay
ebv the overflow; the apple crop is no,
good, not over half crop; peaches also
inic~'"~ - wOrmy.-G. NJ Dry.
Reidsville, Rockingham: Crop condi-
tions may be summed up as follows: crops
of all kinds are fine except on the low
ground that was flooded; good rains 5th
and 6th.--W. H. Schoofeld.
Manly, Moore Weather fine; good
rains first Of the week, and crops look
fine; shipments of cantaloupes about over,
but shipments of grapes going forward
rapidly; the week closed hot and dry
G. w. Allen.
Mount Gilead, Montgomery: Rain on
5th and 9th, and Pedee river higher by 3
feet than it has been this year; no corn
on lowlands and that on uplands poor !;
cotton fine where worked; some hay DAM
aged by rain apple crop very poor
H. T. Scarboro
Wharf, Arson: Heaviest rains of the
season fell here en- 5th and 9Th: Rock
creek feet above high water.wark crops
on bottom lands totally destroyed; cotton
land washed badly; all crops laid by
j. A. Kendall.
Winslow, Harnett: First of week very
wet, with heaviest rains of the season