Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-06-22
THERE is ABOUT IS PER GENE.
OF A FULL CROP OF COT
TON.
People Who Plant Crops by the Moom
and Easter Believe in the
katydid Sign.
SUCCESSFUL WAY OF FARMING

Pine Bluff, Ark, June 21.-The rains
on 1Mesday, Wednesday and during
the last twentyfour hours were gener
al all over the county and were Il
god-send to the farmers Corn had
been lain by, was tasseling and sIkng
and beginning to suffer for want OF
moisture In most places there was
enough rain for corn and the great
est abundance for cotton and all other
crops. The wind was heavy and blew
the corn down considerable. but no
material damage was done Earis-
corn will now make a fair crop without
any more rain but it should have more
for it's best development.
Oats have been harvested and the
crop is the best we have ever had in
ten years. Farmers will now be able
to finish their crops on oats, which
will save much money that would have
had to be paid out for high priced
corn.
Early corn is coming into roasting
ear and will do to feed early in July
Cotton chopping is finished. That
part of the crop that was worked early
and well is doing splendid. The dry
growth and caused it to form wen>,
Blooms are common. which is few
days carrier than usual. The part OF
the crop worked late does not average,
SO per cent. in condition. That part.
of the crop amounts to So, per. cent OF
the total. This reduces the crop per
centage to about SO per cent. for the
whole crop. That per cent. is above
the average for ten years about S pef
cent. With good seasons, from npw
| on the crop will be from S to 10 per
cent better than an average r, cr'
Crops have cost from Is per .cep< ~
35 per cent. more than the a.eiaHs9t
for ten years, on account of ne uienf
price of provisions and 6foi aatllHra
Renters and share hand cannoe eX~1
pect to make much und6 these condi-
tions, unless cotton, remains, high,
which is not proba,e, The tendency ;.
has been downvrd for, forty days,
and bids fair to die still lower before.
the new cron aches market. =5=. =
Fruit ba ,1een doing better sfnc4
tho dav tn dry weather set in. E;al.. 2.
peaches, apples and plums are. now +
on tblI market and bringing good
nnril6. Early apples and peaches are
. rher short crop, but plums are fine.
re peaches, appl1s and pears bio
dir 10 make lanSe crop, although tbe
ruit is dropping to some extent cans
d by recere winds and hot w,4atbo,~
'ears a'e very promising and tho.
ruit VII have to be thinned to keen
he Iuees from breaking down. This.
hotld nave been done before. hut II
'ot 100 late to do it now.
'afuens have suffered considerahlv
rm not, dry weather but the recen.
ms nave greatly revived them an,s
'naiy 11a seasons from now on vege. -.
''es Will be plentiful and cneap. ow- ~
" tHc not weather for the last
fty days all crops are maturing ear
than common. t7t
IN old saying among farmers ie
1rost comes Witt, n three mopt1-
ne appearance of the katydid Tbe,,
any make their appearance the.
oays or July, but. this year they v,.....
{ plentiful on June IS. This wouId ....
. lfost about September Is. which -.
extremely omprobable. This.
'iy a superstition Of uneducates ,.,.,.,,
ignorant people-the class who. -
/. crops by the moon and Easter
iay; no matter how often it lis -
'hStfrated that All these ,supersn- -,a,.o,,
are relic, Of barbarism there, -, =
of farmers who believe, -
en- DC The n right rule is to prepare M.
land properly, plant crops, in '.Sa., M
N, cultivate them well and tguss
evidence for results, a.. ,..,',,,. ',...,.
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