The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-07-26
Condition Of the Crops.

| Following is the Weather Bureaus
weekly summary of crop conditions
Intense heat has prevailed another
week throughout the States of the Central
Valleys and Middle Rocky Mountain
Region, with only local showers over
| limited scattered areas. Maximum tenn
peratures of 1902 or above were of daily
| occurrence over more or less Of the terri
tory named Under these conditions the
drouth has been greatly intensified and
| its area largely increased. Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma and portions of Ne
braska have suffered most, but the con-
ditions are now critical from the Lake
Region, Central Ohio Valley and Tenn
essee westward to the Middle Rocky
Mountain Region, including the greater
of Texas. Portions of the Middle and
South Atlantic States continue to suffer
from excessive moisture, but very favor
able temperatures have been experienced
in these districts and also on the Pacific
Coast, where the week was cooler than
usual
The outlook for corn is less favorable
than at the close of the previous week.
In Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri early corn is practically ruined.
With early and abundant rains in these
States late corn would probably make
half crop or less. The condition of the
crop in Iowa is more favorable than in
the before mentioned States, and copious
rains with moderate temperatures within
a week would greatly improve prospects
for large part of the crop. In Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee,
more particularly the western portions of
the two last named States, corn is now
seriously in need of rain. In Illinois the
crop has not yet sustained great damage
but will be materially reduced unless the
drouth is relieved within week. In the
Middle Atlantic States the conditions
have been highly favorable for corn and
its condition is further improved.
Moisture has caused considerable in
jury to winter wheat in shock in the
Middle Atlantic States. Harvesting con-
tinues where unfinished in the more
northly sections east of the Rocky
Mountains and is in general progress on
the North Pacific Coast.
Spring wheat harvesting has begun over
the southern portion of the spring wheat
region, where as result of premature
ripening. the yield and quality is much
impaired. Over the northern portion,
where the crop is now ripenng, its con-
dition continues promising.
Harvested oats have suffered some in
jury in shock from moisture in the Mid
die Atlantic States, and the unharvested
crop from premature ripening in the
Northwest. while rust has caused injury
in New York and Pennsylvania. Good
yields are reported from the Upper Ohio
Valley.
Haying is mostly finished and fine
crop has been secured in North Dakota,
Minnesota, the Lake Region, the Ohio
Valley, portions of the Middle Atlantic
States and New England.
In the Ohio Valley, Tennessee and
Wisconsin tobacco is suffering much
from drouth, especially in Western Ken
lucky. 1t has been injured by rains in
Maryland; elsewhere the crop has made
favorable progress
Throughout the Central Valleys the
prospects for apples have been further
reduced, and no improvement is report
cd from New England and the Middle
Atlantic States. On the whole the fruit
outlook is not encouraging.