Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-20
CROP CONDITIONS.
Some Damage to Corn by Frost-Spring
Wheat Harvested.

The weather bureaus weekly summary
OF crop conditions is as follows:
While the weather conditions of the
week ending am. September 10 were
generally favorable for gathering crops in
nearly all districts, low night tempera-
lures in the more northerly portions have
DELAYED the maturity of late crops and
some suffering from drought is reported
from the Ohio and lower Missouri valleys
and portions of the southern states.
Frosts occurred far south as Okla
homa and Tennessee, but little or no dam
age resulted except to tender vegeta-
ton in the central valleys and to unma-
tured crops in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the
Dakotas and Montana. An unusually Sc
we're rain and wind storm caused con-
siderable damage on the 14th and 18th in
portions of New England and the middle
Atlantic states. The conditions were gen.
orally favorable in California, but
drought was injurious in Oregon and no
rain fell in Washington.
Late corn Is maturing rapidly In the
western portion of the belt, but the crop
is ripening slowly In the eastern and CEN
trail sections and needs ten to twenty
days of favorable conditions to be safe
from frost. While damaging frosts &C.
Cured in portions of the upper Missis-
sippi valley and considerable portion of
the crop was damaged In Wisconsin and
some on lowlands in parts of Minnesota
and Iowa, the aggregate frost damage in
the last named states was not serious.
Cutting now is general in all sections.
Spring wheat harvest is practically
completed except in the northern portion
of North Dakota, and thrashing is well
advanced in Minnesota and South Da-
kota. half done in Washington and near
ing completion in Nebraska, but delayed
by rain in eastern North Dakota.
Complaints of cotton shedding are still
received from the eastern section and the
northern portion of the western section
of the cotton belt, but reports of rust are
not so general. Except in North Carolina,
tricts, in some localities prematurely, and
picking is general, although delayed by
rain in portions of Texas, from which
state, as well as from Georgia. scarcity of
pickers is reported Dry weather is caus-
ing injury to late cotton generally IN the
central and eastern sections, and light
or no top crop is indicated in the central
and western districts. while worms and
caterpi1lars are causing injury in Okla
homa Louisiana, Alabama and South
Carolina. In Texas the boil weevils con-
tinue as damaging in southwestern, coast,
central, eastern and number of north
ern counties as the advancement Of the
season permits.
Good progress has been made In cut
ting housing and curing tobacco, and a
large portion of the crop has been Sc
cured in good condition. Some late to-
bacco is still in the fields in Virginia and
was slightly injured by the storm of the
18th.
A light and inferior crop OF apples is
indicated In majority of the states of
the central valleys, but in Michigan and
Ohio and the northern portion of the mid
die Atlantic states, as well as in New
England, this fruit is plentiful, especially
in the last named section, where large
crop of fine quality is promised. High
wind Of the 14th and 18th caused much