The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-21
ALL STATES SHORT
NOWHERE WILL THERE BE A
FULL PEACH CROP.
COLD HAS INJURED THEM.
REPORTS GAINED BY THE COM
MISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE.

Georgia Is Low Down in the Scale.
Her Peaches May Not BE More
Than % Per Cent. of nm Average
CrOp-GeneraI Average for All the
States Is Estimated at 35 Per
Cent. of an Average CrOp-RepOrts
from All of the Principal Peach
States Save California.
Atlanta, April 2O.-Georgia is not
alone this year in finding a short
peach crop on hand. Every peach
growing state in the country reports a
reduced crop, as the result of bad
weather conditions, ranging from 80 to
so per cent. below the average.
This information has just been Sc
cured by the Department OF Agricul-
ture. At the instance of the Georgia
fruit growers, Commissioner o. B.
Stevens wrote letters to the commits
sioners of agriculture of all the i'm
portant peach-growing states of the
country, and has received replies from
practically all of them except Califor-
mia, which will probably be heard
from within day or two.
The replies show that there is a pos
sibility of something like 95 per cent.
of an average crop throughout the en-
tire country. In some states the crop
has been almost wholly destroyed; in
others there is only 10 or Is per cent.
promised, while several expect to get
as high as so per cent. of an average
yield.
Georgia, it is stated, will do well il
rs per cent of an average crop is Sc
cured, while Col. Stevens and State
Entomologist Scott are inclined to
think the figures will not go quite so
high as this. The reports from the
other states, as received at the De-
partment of Agriculture, are as fol-
lows:
Massachusetts.-The peach crop has
been devastated by a severely cold
winter and spring, and hardly peach
will be harvested.
New Jersey.-The destruction of the
peach crop Is surely so per cent, and
may run as high as rs per cent. 1t is
difficult to tell the entire extent of
the damage yet, as the effect of the
more recent cold weather is not fully
known.
Virginia-The peach crop will be
larger than was thought a week or two
ago, though nothing like a full crop.
The damage is thought to be fully so
per cent,
West Virginia. will be about
Is per cent. of an average crop of
peaches in this state. and all the other
fruit is reported damaged by the cold
weather in the same proportion.
North Carolina-Only about so per
cent. of a crop is reported, and it may
be considerably less than that.
Ohio-On the first of April the pros
pect was n per cent of an average
crop. Since then there has been some
severely cold weather, and this pros
pect will no doubt be considerably re-
duced.
Illinois-There are no peaches in :he
northern and central parts of this state,
though it is reported unofficially that
there is a part of a crop in Southern
Illinois.
Missouri-There is a prospect of 25
to so per cent. of a crop of peaches in
Southern Missouri, but there Is no fruit
in the northern part of the state, and
the yield for the whole state will, it is
stated, be not more than 10 per cent.
of an average crop.
Texas-There will be about half a
crop of peaches in this state. The
fruit was badly damaged by the late
cold.
The foregoing states, with California,
constitute the principal peach-groWing
states of the country.
Can't Find Alleged Briber.
The Fulton county grand jury APP
pears to have slipped up in a recent
indictment for bribery or attempted
bribery. James D. Reaves was indict-
ed for an alleged attempt to bride
Police Commissioner w. o. Jones in
order to secure his influence. The only
James d. Reaves in the city is a
plumber, who has convinced the Of
ficials he had nothing to do with the
case and is evidently not the man
wanted. SO far the authorities have
been unable to locate the man for
whom the indictment was intended
CoOns on the Rampage.
Two coons of the ring tailed variety
were left in Hastings seed store over
night, and this morning it was APP
parent that they had gone into the
wrecking business, as soon as the doors
were locked. After killing a valuable
Belgian hare, they proceeded to chew
up all the eggs in the place and then
set about to mixing seed so that it is
expected turnips will come up where
blue grass should have grown.
They next proceeded to slay the
only parrot in the store and completed
the damage by turning over the
gold fish bowls and chewing up the
fish Then they dug their way out at
the rear of the store and at last aC-