Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-07-16
CROPS HURT BY HEAT.
TEXAS AND THE MISSOURI VAL
LEY SUFFER DAMAGE.
Injury Not Genera1-Outlook for Spring
Wheat in the Northwest Is Good
Harvest Is Finished in Kansas and
the Lower Ohio Valley.

According TO the climate and crop di-
vision of the weather bureau the north
ern and central districts east az the
Rocky Mountains have experienced two
consecutive weeks of intense heat, and
while the average daily temperature ex-
cess for the past week was not so quite
marked as in the previous week in the
central valleys, it was more so in the
middle Atlantic coast districts. No seri-
ously injurious effects to crops from this
period of intense heat is reported from
the middle Atlantic States, but from
Texas. northward to Nebraska, including
Missouri, Arkansas, and portions of llli-
nois, kentucky and Tennessee, crops
have suffered to a greater or less extent.
The weather conditions on the Pacific
coast and in the plateau regions have
been favorable, although frests caused
some injury in Utah and Wyoming.
In Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas
and Arkansas corn has been seriously
damaged by intense heat and drying
winds, although late corn in Kansas is in
fair condition The bulk of the crop in
Nebraska and Iowa has so far escaped
injury, except in few southwestern
counties in Nebraska, where corn has
been slightly injured, while in southeast
ern Iowa it is threatened. In the States
of the Ohio valley corn has suffered no
injury from heat, and has generally made
good growth, but continues in need of
cultivation in positions of Ohio and West
Virginia.
Winter wheat harvest is finished i'll
Kansas, Missouri and in the lower ONO
valley, and is in progress In the more
northerly sections. Rains have interior
ed with the harvest in portions of ONO
and West Virginia and reports OF INJURY
by fly continue from the hrst named
State, as we'll as from portions of Penn
sylvania and New York. On the Pacific
coast harvest has begun in Oregon and
wheat is ripening in Washington.
In the Dakotas, Minnesota, Oregon and
Washington spring wheat continues gen
orally in promising condition, although
areas in northern Minnesota have been
flooded, and the crop has suffered from
drought in portions of South Dakota, In
Iowa the excessive heat has probably I'M
paired the quality of the crop by causing
it to ripen too rapidly.
The oat crop in the States of the upper
Mississippi and Missouri valleys has suf-
fered further injury from intense heat,
but in southern Minnesota and portions
of South Dakota it is in promising condl-
ton. In the Ohio valley and middle At
lantic States the crop has ripened rapid
" under tie high temperatures, fair to
good yield being indicated for these dis
tric:s.
A large crop of hay is being secured in
New England and New York, and haying
continues with fair to good results IN the
Ohio valley and lake region. The intense
heat has materially reduced the crop in
the central Mississippi and lower Mis-
souri, valleys, but its condition in the Da-
kotas is excellent. Fine haying weather
has prevailed on the north Pacihc coast
with satisfactory yields, except in east
ern Oregon.
In the central and eastern portions or
the cotton belt, with the exception of
South Carolina and Florida, cotton,
though small, is generally growing and
fruiting well. In Tennessee and to the
westward of the Mississippi river cotton
is much in need of rain, especially in the
uplands of Texas and portions of Arkan-
sas The crop generally is from one to
two weeks late.
Tobacco has suffered somewhat from
heat in Maryland and Virginia, and its
growth has been checked by drought in
oortions of Tennessee and western Ken
tucEy