The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-17
LARGE PART OF CROP LATE
This With Early Rains Will Save
the Situation.
COTTON GENERALLY WELL CULTIVATED
Not so in Florida and the CaronaS. Part Of
Spring Wheat Crop Ripens Prema-
tureIy. Favorable Weather in
South Atlantic States.
" the Associated rress }

Washington, July 16.-The Weather Bu-
reau's Weekly summary of crop condi-
tions says
THE States of the Middle Rocky Noun
tain region and Missouri and Mississippi
Valleys have experienced another, the
third consecutive. week of intense heat.
With an almost entire absence of rain
the crops in the region named have been
subject to most unfavorable conditions.
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 dis
tricts to the westward. On the Atlantic
coast very favorable temperature condi-
tions have prevailed with abundant
rains, excessive and damaging in portions
of the middle and South Atlantic States.
"The corn crop as whole in the great
States of the Central Valleys has materi-
ally deteriorated, and has sustained
serious injudy over the western portion
of the corn belt, and especially in Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Oklohoma. A very
large part of the crop is late, however,
and this has withstood the trying cond-
and with rains will still make fair crop.
This is particularly applicable to Iowa.
Nebraska and portions Of Kansas and
Northern Missouri. The early corn in
Central and Southern Missouri portions
of Eastern Kansas, and in the Central
and West Gulf States has been irrapaIa-
bly, injured. In the upper Ohio Valley,
corn, while needing rain, has improved,
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crop has made excellent progress.
Winter wheat harvest is about finish
ed, except in the more northerly portion
of the Atlantic Coast district. where in
some sections it has been retarded by
rain. Harvesting has begun in the North
Pacific Coast region under very favorable
conditions
"Over the Southern portion OF the
spring wheat region spring wheat has
Tipened prematurely and the general
prospect is less promising than previously
reported. In the northern portion, how
ever, the outlook continues favorable.
Harvesting is expected to begin in North
ern Minnesota by the 18th. In Oregon,
spring wheat is needing rain.
"Oats have suffered, in common with ear
crops, from heat and drouth in the States
of the Central Valleys Harvesting is
now progressing in the more northerly
sections.
"Haying has been retarded by rains in
the New England and Middle Atlantic
States, but has made good progress in
the Ohio and upper Mississippi Valleys.
The yield will be very light in the States
of the Missouri and Central Mississippi
Valley, but a good crop is generally in
dicated in the Lake region, Upper Ohio
Valley and extreme northwest Except
in the Carolinas and Florida, cotton is
generally well cultivated, and over the
greater part of the Central and Western
districts is standing the drouth well, al
though growth has been checked. Cotton
has suffered from heavy rains in North
Carolina, where it 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
highly favorable for tobacco in the
Atlantic Coast States, but the crop is
generally in need of rain in the Ohio
Valley.
The prospect for apples has been
greatly lessened, and especially over the
Central Valleys, as a result of heat"