Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-07-24
THE CONDITION OF CROPS 5,
Weather Bureau Makes Report an
49, to How They Have Stood
s.<,5J r.E9(>= the Hot Spell,

Washington, July 1.-THE weather
bureaus weekly summary of crop con-
ditions is as follows:
The states of the middle Rocky mountain
and Missouri and Mississippi valleys have
experienced another, the third consecutive
week OF intense heat, the maximum tenn
perature over large part Of these dis
tr1cts ranging above 100 daily during the
week, many stations reporting from 100
to 1O7. With an almost entire absence of
rain the crops in the region named have
been subjected to most unfavorable condi-
tons. In the states lying Immediately to
the eastward of the Mississippi river very
high temperatures have also prevailed,
but the heat has been less intense and it's
effects not so serious as in the districts
to the westward. On the Atlantic coast
very favorable temperature conditions
nave prevailed with abundant rains, ex-
cessive and damaging in portions of the
middle and south Atlantic states. On the
Pacific coast it has been cool and dry with
frost IN Washington on the 18th.
The corn crop as a whole in the great
corn states of the central valleys has ma
terlally deteriorated and has sustained seri-
Gus injury over, the western portion of
the corn belt, especially In Missouri, Ne
oraska, kansas and Oklahoma. A very
large part of the crop is late, however,
and this has withstood the trying condi-
ton OF drought and heat remarkably we'll
and with early rains will still make fair
crop. This Is particularly applicable In
Iowa, Nebraska and portions of Kansas
and northern Missouri.
The early corn in central and southern
missouri, portions of eastern Kansas, Ar
Kansas and in the central and west Gulf
states has been irreparably injured. In
the upper Ohio valley corn, while needing
rain, has improved, and in the Atlantic
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progress.
Winter wheat harvest is about finished,
except in the more northerly portion of
the Atlantic coast districts, where in some
sections it has been retarded by rain
harvesting has begun in the north Pa
chic coast region under very favorable
conditions
Over the southern portion of the spring
wheat region spring wheat has ripened
prematurely and the general prospect is
less promising than previously reported
In the northern portion, however, the out.
look continues favorable. Harvesting is
expected to begin in northern Minnesota
by the 18th. In Oregon spring wheat is
needing rain.
Oats have suffered in common with othe,
crops from heat and drought in the states
of the central valleys. Harvesting is nov
progressing in the more northerly sec.
tions.
Haying. has been retarded by rains ir
the New England and middle Atlantic
states, but has made good progress ir
the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys
The yield will be very light in the states
of the Missouri and central Mississippi val
leys, but good crop is generally indicated
in the lake region, upper Ohio valley an6
extreme northwest.
Except in the Carolinas and Florida, cot.
ton is generally well cultivated, and ovel
the greater part of the central and west
ern districts is standing the drought we'll
although growth has been checked, anc
fruiting at the top is commonly report
ed. Cotton has suffered from heavy rain!
in North Carolina, where 1t is making
too much Stalk. In Georgia the prospect
is much below the average and many fields
have been abandoned. In southwest Texas
early cotton is opening and some picking
has been done.
The weather conditions have been high
ly favorable for tobacco in the Atlanti,
coast states, but the crop is generally il
need of rain in the Ohio valley and is suf
fering severely in the western portions O.
Kentucky.
The prospect for apples has been great
ly lessened, especially over the centra
valleys, as a result of heat