The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-09-13

Condition of the Crops.

The Weather Bureaus weekly sum
mary of crop conditions:
| The weather conditions Of the week
ended September 9, 1901, having been
generally favorable for gathering and
maturing late crops in nearly all sections
east of the Rocky Mountains and on the
Pacific Slope Rains retarded work in
| Nebraska and South Dakota and caused
some damage to crops in the first named
! States, while drought conditions still con-
tnue in portions of Texas and Oklahoma
and rain is needed in tie central valleys
Light frosts were quite general in The
| Rocky Mountain region and in Michigan
with little or no damage, and now occur
| red in Montana Conditions have been
particularly favorable in the South Allan
tic and Gulf districts, which have in four
previous weeks experienced unusual and
heavy precipitation.
Reports from the principal corn pro-
ducing States west of the Mississippi
River indicate that late corn is maturing
rapidly and that cutting is in active pro-
gress in all sections, being nearly COM
| pleted in some localities. The late corn
continues to improve in Nebraska, and
shows better than anticipated. In Iowa
the bulk of the late planted fields will be
beyond danger from frost by September
90 in the dry section of the State, about
hale 1n hni q
shock, except portions of the northern
districts. In Missouri the crop is drying
up. Generally favorable reports are re-
ceieved from the States east of the Mis-
sissippi River, with the exception OF Hi
nois, where corn has deterioated slightly
and its maturity fastened by dry weather
Cutting is in progress in the northerly
sections under favorable conditions.
Favorable reports regarding tobacco
continue from nearly all districts. Cut
ting and housing arc in general progress
and a satisfactory crop is indicated, al
though tobacco is light in North Carolina
and Wisconsin, and curing very badly in
Maryland.
| No improvement in the condition of APP
piles is reported This fruit is scarce in
nearly all sections, and prospects for a
| poor yield are indicated, but in portions
of Arkansas and West Virginia good
crop in general is promised. In Missouri
and Indiana apples continue dropping and
many trees are dying in the first-named
| State.
Owing to dry soil conditions, plowin g
has been retarded in Michigan, Wisconsin,
| Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and portions
of Kansas and the States of the Ohio Val
| lev; elsewhere this work has progressed
rapidly. Some wheat has been sown in
Missouri, but the soil is too dry for germi-
nation, and seeding has begun in other
districts where conditions were favorable.
Reduced Rates to San Francisco.
| On account of the Triennial Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to be
held at San Francisco beginning October
2, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will sell round-trip tickets to San Fran
cisco from all points on its line at greatly
reduced rates.
Tickets will be sold September IS to q
inclusive, and will be good to return to
leave San Francisco not earlier that DC.
tober 8, and only on date of execution by
Joint Agent, to whom a fee of fifty cents
must be paid, and passengers must reach
original starting point by November Is
| 1901.
| Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
also run Personally Conducted Tour tC
the Pacific Coast on this occasion by
special train, starting September % anc
returning October %. Round-trip rate
s1s5.
| For further information apply 10 ticket
agents, or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assis
tant General Passenger Agent, Phila
delphia.
500 Reward 500.
The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one dread
ed disease that science has been able tt
cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh