Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-07-17
Drought and Hot Wave Have
Done Immense Dama6e
in the Corn Belt.
HARVEST WILL Be SMALL
In Seven States the Losses Are Esti-
mated at $350,OOO,O 900.


Most in Missouri and Kansas Grain
Fields OF Large Section So Burned
That Condition Is Beyond Rom
edy Nebraska Suffered Least OF
the Corn-Growing States - Parchcd
Crops I'm Other Localities Bad Re
ports Affected the Grain Market.
Chicago.-Sunshinc is costing mill
ions of dollars in the West. Rain drops
In some places Just now would he
worth their weight in gold Else
where the time is past and no amount
of rain can lift the blight from heat
shrivellcd fields. The losses are csti-
mated as follows: Kansas. S20OOOO
O00: Missouri. 100000 900: the two
Dakotas and Minnesota. S25.0O0OO
Wisconsin, $15,00O.O00. and Nebraska.
$11.00O.000.
Nebraska, hitherto in the finest sort
of condition. is beginning to fee! the
effects of the hot wave and the un-
broken drought. Reports from that
State indicate that considerable dam
age has already resulted, and more is
imminent
Iowa corn is turning up little
around the edges, but so far is not
hurt, and Il good rain would bring the
State out all right. The same thing
applies TO Illinois in Il general way
and with Il late fall the backward crop
will come out all right
Ii Is in Kansas and Missouri where
the conditions are most depressing
In the Sunflower State all save the
wheat seems to he wholly or i'm part
destroyed by the blisterlnG winds and
the unclouded sun. In Missouri con
ditions are almost rs bad.
Much. it might he said, most of this
damage in both Kansas and Missouri
has been done since July l. when the
hot winds and terrific heat came. In
formation from which the Government
crop report of July 10 WAS issued was
secured previous to July /. Therefore
the crop condition figures attached to
the Government report for those two
States must be diSrcgardcd
Where the Government gives n con
dition in Kansas corn OF Seventy-four
per cent. 1t is far and away below that.
nearer twenty-five per cent. in view
Of this later information. Missouri
corn. according to the Government.
shows condition of seventy. That.
too. has been changed since July |.
and the percentage must be greatly
reduced.
Rain. and rain only. can save the
crops. and this must come shortly or
II Will be too late.
The Kansas City stock market RI
vailed Chicago's market owing to the
TACT that the farmers are flooding the
Western markets in their mad desire
1-i1 Nf t1,,f,.
bHfore feed famine overtakes them.
rms movement is general throughout
the West and Northwest. and what is
true of the Kansas City market is the
case in Chicago, Omaha and Sioux
City.
Lincoln. Neb. - Abnormal heat and
not winds have prevailed for several
Gays, but the effect In damage To grain
crops Is partly guesswork If the cS-
innate that half the oats and half the
potato crop is ruined is correct II
means yield in oats of but $1,000 600
bushels. compared with normal Weld
or iO.OOoOOO. loss of more than 50.
OOO,OOO and Il cutting down of the no
tato crop from 100000 to 1000 0oO
bushels. representing a monetary loss
of 81, 100000.
Leavenworth. Kan.-In addition to
the hopeless outlook for corn in Kan
sas the oats and hay are ruined. and
the fruit on the trees is becoming
shriveled and Is falling The vegeta-
bic crop Is Il total failure. Reports
indicate that in no county in the State
are the crops damaged less than fifty
per cent. The streams are drying up
ana the question of water for the cit
les and towns of the State and for
stock is becoming a serious problem.
Jefferson City. Mo. - Weather con
tlnues hot and dry. The crop situa-
ton Is alarming. The chances for
corn crop are exceedingly slim. Ii is
estimated that ten per cent. of nor
mai yield is Il high estimate. Oats
are mostly harvested and ten per cent
VIII cover this crop. Potatoes are NOT
more than twenty five per cent. with
nay less than twenty-five per cent.
Inc wheat crop is normal.
Milwaukee, WiS.-No accurate esti-
mate can be made of the damage TO
Wisconsin crops since July !. bur it
VIII run well into the hundreds OF
thousands There has been no rain
Tor month Pastures are drying.
and there is likely to be Il shortage of
feed.
Dcs Moines, Iowa.-The hot winds
have done much harm 10 corn and
oats ia Easter1 Iowa. following two