The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-10
RAIN BENEFITS GROWING CROPS
Corn Makes Good Progress and Com
ditions Continue Promising.


ditions Continue Promising.
The weather bureaus weekly summary
of crop conditions is as follows:
Very favorable temperatures prevail
ed during the week ending Aug. / in
nearly all districts, and while drouthy
conditions are beginning to be felt over
limited areas in the central valleys and
Southern States the rainfall has been
generally ample for crop needs.
Corn has experienced a week Of favor
able temperature, and while needing rain
in portions of the central Mississippi and
Missouri valleys, the crop, as a whole,
has made good progress and continues in
promising condition.
Thrashing winter wheat has advanced
under favorable weather conditions in
the central valleys, but frequent rains
have interrupted this work in the middle
Atlantic States. The quality and yield
Of grain are proving disappointing in the
lower Missouri valley, where the crop
suffered much from excessive rains dur
ing the period of harvest.
Unfavorable reports respecting spring
wheat are more pronounced as well as
more general thar in the previous week,
rust being more or less prevalent in all
of the principal spring wheat States east
OF the Rocky Mountains. In portions
of Minnesota and North Dakota, how
ever, a good crop is promised. Harvest
ing is in progress in Iowa, Nebraska and
South Dakota and will begin in Mime
sofa about the 9th. Harvesting is also
in progress in Oregon, with better yields
than were expected. In Washington
spring wheat is ripening somewhat too
rapidly as a result of hot winds.
Oats harvest is in general progress
in the more northerly sections and is
largely finished in the central and south
ern districts. Rust has caused damage
in North Dakota and portions of Mime
sofa and rains have proved injurious to
oats in shock in Maryland, Delaware and
New Jersey.
Cotton has made good growth in the
central and eastern portions of the cotton
belt, too rapid growth being reported
from portions of Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana. Complaints of rust and
shedding are more general than in the
previous week in the Carolinas, Georgia
and Florida.
Shedding is also generally reported
lTOIl leAdS, NlleTe hIDSI VI Az NIop
should be benefited by rains, drouth being
most serious in the north central coun-
ties. Much of the crop in Mississippi and
Louisiana is grassy. Picking continues
in southern Texas, where it is expected
to be general by the middle of August,
and has begun in Alabama and Florida.
The condition Of tobacco is less favor
able in the Ohio valley, where most of
the crop is in need Of rain, but from
Virginia n~orthward tobacco has made
good growth and topping is in progress.
Curing is progressing in the C~arolinas,
the crop in North Carolina being much
lighter than usual.
In the lower Missouri, central Missis-
sippi and Ohio valleys and over the
southern portion of the middle Atlantic
States the outlook for apples is not prom
Using, but prospects for this crop are
encouraging in the northern portion of the
middle Atlantic States, New England
and portions of the lake region.
Rains have interrupted haying and
damaged hay in the middle Atlantic
States, but elsewhere a large crop Of gen.
orally fine quality has been mostly Sc
curad