The Red Cloud chief., 1903-10-02
LAST CROP REPORT
Section Director LoveIand Tells
About Conditions.
CORN IS NOT MUCH HURT
Main Cereal Of the state Was Pretty
Much out Of Harms way-Na-
tionai Report Far from
being P~essimistic

Section Director Lovelanid OF the Me-
braska weather bureau issued his week
ly crop bulletin September %. the last
OF the season Of 1903. He says:
The past week has been cold. with
light TO killing frosts and generally
light rainfall.
The temperature has averaged 10 de-
groes below normal. with minimum
temperatures on the morning of the
10th but slightly above freezing in
southeastern counties and 10 to IL de-
gre8s below freezing In some western
counties and heavy to killing fro5,s
occurred generally. except in the ex-
IRENE southeastern part of the state
where only n light frost occurred. The
18th and 10Th were exceedingly cold
days with maximum temperatures GEN.
orally below 80 degrees and I'm places in
northwestern counties below 40 de-
grees. The morning of the 18th was
generally the coolest, the temperature
rising to about normal for the last
three days Of the week.
The rainfall was confined TO light
showers on the first day of the week.
generally amounting t. less than half
an inch. At the same time snow fell
In some northwestern counties to a
depth to 2 to z inches.
The dry weather of the week has
been favorable for haying and thresh-
ing. although the cold. cloudy weather
early In the week was rather %unfayor-
able. and some hay was injured by the
rain or snow. The hay crop Is large
and considerable remains yet unse-
cured.
Corn in the extreme southeastern
counties was uninjured by frost, and in
a considerable area In the eastern por-
ton OF the state the damage was slight.
The temperature was lower and the
crops more injured to the north and
westward. Minimum temperatures
ranging from 20 to rs degrees occurred
In Cherry. Custer, Lincoln, Chase and
Hitchcock counties. This In a general
way outlines the area of severest freeze.
Minimum temperatures of 80 degrees or
below occurred quite generally north of
the Platte river. except the Missouri
and Platte rivers. where they were
about or slightly above freezing. South
or the Platte river the minimum tenn
perature was 30 degrees or above as
far west as Kearney and Franklin
counties. The corn leaves were killed
quito generally in all except eastern
counties and In a considerable area in
the central counties the stalk was
Killed also. In a large portion of the
area of severe frost one-half or more
Of the corn crop was sufficiently ma
tured to withstand the frost with little
II any damage. The rest OF the crop
was quite seriously injured. In some
localities nearly every field will be
more or less damaged.
Considerable wheat has been soyn.
but in extreme eastern counties the
ground was too wet a large portion of
the week.
Potatoes are being dug and the crop
Is n very short one.
Pastures and ranges are generally I'm
good condition and forage of all kinds
Is plentiful.
a washington, Sept. %. dispatch
says: The national weather bureaus
weekly crop bulletin says:
Notwithstanding the occurrence of
hight to heavy frOsts generally through
out the corn belt. the corr crop has
escaped injury, except In the western
portions or Kansas and Nebraska and
In the Dakotas. Minnesota and Wiscon-
SIN. While low temperatures have pre-
vented rapid %ripening. especially over
the western districts, the crop as a
whole has advanced favorably, although
the late planted In the Ohio valley and
tennessee has suffered from drouth. A
large part of the crop Is now safe. but
the ulk of the unmatured will require
from one to two weeks of favorable
weather.
The weather has been favorable for
the completion Of spring wheat harvest
en- the northern Pacific coast. In the
nakotas and Minnesota spring wheat I'm
shock mas been injured and threshing
delayed by wet weather.
Except In portions OF the eastern dis
trlcts or the cotton belt, where cotton
plcking has been interrupted by rains,
the weather conditions have been fay-
oTable Tor gathering the crop and this
Work has progressed rapidly. The
prevalence of rust, shedding and boil
worms is widespread.
cotton Is opening rapidly in all dis
trlcts. The outlook for Il top crop is
not promising.
Flowing and seeding have advanced
satisfactorily except in the Ohio valley
ana tennessee, where the soil has been
700 dry and In the northern portion of
the middle Atlantic states, where there
has been too much rain.