The age-herald., 1901-08-27
ALABAMA CROPS.

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 From the DeKalk Times: Cotton and corn have been damaged greatly by re- cent storms.
 Attalla Mirror: The farmers are all through work and are now trying to keep cool this hot August weather. Craps are Just tolerably good.
 From the Sylacauga Enterprise: The wind and rain storm of Thursday night did considerable damage to the crops in this section Most all corn you see now is lying very near down, and the damage 1t will suffer Is right hard to estimate.
 From the Eufaula Times: MT. T. P. Graves has the first bale of 1901 cotton all ready for ginning. It Is of the Russell improved big fire lock boil, and is a very fine article. If there Is any one ahead of MT. Graves we have not found it out
 From the Gadsden Journal MT. Mo- Daniel, one of our successful orchardists. was in the city this morning. He has just returned from Buffalo, where he success fully marketed three cars of fine peaches, as well as taking in the exposi- ton.
 From the Greenvile Living Truth: Greenville's first bale reached here Tues day evening and was brought in by MT. W. W. Ptomey of near Montery. It weighs 491 pounds and was weighed at Tills warehouse. The sample was mid ding.
 From the Eufaula Times: Eufaula has been blessed with showers this season. At no time have we suffered from drouth, while points near here, notably Clayton, had no rain for weeks. Crops are fine, and the prospects is encouraging. We are apt to growl, and forget the blessings we really have. And now let us all pull together for a big fall festival
 From the Dadeville Spot Cash: MT. J. T. Fuller raised the largest watermelon yet heard from. He cut a sixty-six pounder at his home last week. Eleven persons ate of 1t and could not consume it. One of the persons present tells us that 1t was of extra fine flavor, as we'll as an exceedingly large one. We have to take his word for 1t.
 From the Eufaula Times: Two crops can be raised at an advantage that Is shown by those raised on Mr. L. E. Irby's farm-a fine crop of oats and now an excellent crop of peas.
 The first bale of cotton Is eagerly look ed for It will be in this week. In fact, there will be several first bales. And ere long the bales from the main crop will roll In and business be brisk again.
 From the Chiffon Reflector: We have talked with several farmers who claim that the crops are seriously damaged. They claim that the corn is on the ground and will rot, and the cotton Is turning red and shedding very much. They think the cotton Is taking rust and that 1t will make very little and that rust will make the bolls now on the stalk open prematurely.
 From the Scottsboro Age: The overflow of the Tennessee River is very distress Ing to all river farmers. The backwaters are out over everything and are hgiher than they were In the May flood. We are reliably informed that the backwater was still rising early this morning. It is estimated that half a million bushels of corn will be destroyed along the river from Chattanooga to Guntersville At this season of the year there Is no relief from the misfortune as it will be too late to plant another crop of anything by the time the bottoms dry out.
 From the Anniston Hot Blast: The edi- tor of the Hot Blast has travelled exten- sively through the great corn growing States of the West and has noticed that the farmers cut down t.-eir corn. just af- ter 1t has passed the roasting ear state, IA l.. RaI1 gather the ear and run the entire stalk through a shredder and thus save 1t all.
 The corn crop throughout this section was practically made when the great storm of week ago came and leveled the stalk to the earth Why would 1t not be advisable to gather and shock the corn in the manner outlined above and not permit 1t to lie and rot upon the soil. or in the water? Thousands and thousands of bushels already made on low lands might be saved in this manner.
 From the Dadeville Spot Cash The heavy wind of last Thursday night con siderably damaged the corn and cotton crop. It Is the opinion of many farmers that crops are almost totally ruined. Cot ton was blown around so as to break the feed roots and make a hole around the stalk This may cause the plant to die unless a heavy rain comes and fills up these holes corn, in most places was blown down level with the ground, and chances for a fodder crop are slim. One of our up-to-date farmers a few days ago wanted to challenge the county on forty acres of the best cotton in Tallapoosa, claiming that it would yield more than bale to the acre. He now says the crop Is ruined and that he never expects to make another cotton crop, as 1t is so un- certain.