The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-18
MUCH TOO COOL
FOR CORN CROP
Improvement Has Eeen Made but
the Plant Needs Sun to
Force It.
Rains Delayed the Spring Wheat
Harvest in Minnesota and
the Dakotas.
Oats in the Shock Damaged by Elk
cessive Moisture-The Crop
Summary.

| Washington, Aug. 18.-The weather
bureaus weekly summary Of crop con-
| ditions is as follows:
This is the third consecutive week OF
abnormal cool weather in the northern
districts east Of the Rocky mountains
where warmth is greatly needed for ma
turing crops. More favorable tempera-
| ture conditions have prevailed in the
southern states. altho higher tempera-
ture conditions in the northern portion o.
the central gulf districts would have beer
| better. A large part of the Missouri val.
ley, and portions of the Upper Mississippi
and Red river valleys, have suffered from
excessive moisture, while drought pre-
| walls in the central and upper portions
| of the Ohio valley, central and southern
Texas and in portions of Florida and Ok
lahoma. Rain is also needed on the north
Pacific coast, where favorable tempera
ture prevailed but in California it has
ben rather cool for fruit drying.
| Turnout the northern and eastern por-
! tons of the corn belt the weather has
ben too cool for maturing corn, which Is
unusually late. The corn crop has, how
! ever. generally improved, especially In the
| central and western districts, the outlook
/ being very promising in Kansas where
early corn is about made in the southern
part of the state. In the northwestern
| portions of the corn belt, including Ne
brasl1a, Iowa, Wisconsin and portions OF
Missouri and Illinois there is need for
/ warmth and for the most part Of sun
shine. Without these conditions during
| the next four weeks and unusually late
! frosts, much of the crop will fail to ma
ture. Drought in the upper Ohio valley
| has materially lessened the prospects for
| corn in that section. r
Rains have further checked the prog
ress of the spring wheat harvest in the
Dakotas and Minnesota, but this work is
nearly completed in the southern portion
| Of the spring wheat region. Threshing
has commenced but rains have prevented
| rapid progress and some injury to grain
| in shock is reported. In the central and
northern Rocky mountains and north Pa
| cific coast districts, spring wheat harvest
| has progressed under favorable con-
dftions.
| Oats in shock and stack have been In
! jured by wet weather in portions of Mis-
| souri, and Upper Mississippi valleys, where
threshing has made slow progress; else
where threshing has continued uninter-
ruptedly. Harvesting Is well advanced in
New York and partially finished in other
districts.
Cotton has made rapid growth thruout
the cotton belt and in portions of the
| central and western districts and eastern
North Carolina, complaint Of too rapid
growth Is quite general, rust and shedding
being also reported in the central and
eastern districts, while heavy rains have
| caused injury in portions of North Caro-
| lima, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas
Boil weevl is increasing In the south
west and south central cotton counties
of Texas, and boil worms are appearing in
northern Texas, but as yet the latter have
caused little damage. Early cotton is now
opening and little picking has been done
in South Carolina, Florida and Texas, a
first bale" having been ginned in South
Carolina on the 18th, four days later than
the average.
Cool weather has affected tobacco I'M
favorably In Kentucky, Pennsylvania and
New England and drought is causing fur
ther injury in Ohio; elsewhere the crop
has made satisfactory progress. Cutting
has begun In Maryland. Ohio, Kentucky,
Wisconsin and New England. There is
a very general absence of reports of in
jury by worms.