The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-28
LATE CROPS ARE DELAYED.
Danger in Northern Section Increased
by Low Temperature. @

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The weather bureaus weekly sum-
mary of crop conditions is as follows:
While the weather conditions of the
week were generally favorable for gath
ering crops in nearly all districts, low
night temperatures in the more n~Ortherly
portions have delayed the maturity of
late crops, and some suffering from
drouth is reported from the Oaio and
lower Missouri valleys and portions of
the Southern States. Frosts occurred
as far south as Oklahoma and Tennes-
see, but little or nc damage resulted
except to tender vegetation in the CEN
trial valleys and to immatured crops in
Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and
Montana. An unusually severe rain and
wind storm caused considerable damage
ON the 18th and 18th in portions of New
England and the middle Atlantic States.
The conditions were generally favora-
BILE in California, but drouth was injuri-
Gus in Oregon, and no rain fell in Wash
ington.
Late corn is maturing rapidly in the
western portion Of the belt, but the crop
is ripening slowly in the eastern and
central sections and needs ten to twenty
days of favorable conditions to be safe
from frost. While damaging frosts oc-
Cured in portions of the upper Missis-
sippi valley and a considerable portion
Of the crop was damaged in Wisconsin
and some ON low lands in parts Of Min
nesota and Iowa. the aggregate frost
damage in the last-named State was not
serious. Cutting is now 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 lone 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 Sec
ton of the cotton belt, but reports of
rust are not so general. Except in North
Carolina the staple is opening rapidly
In all districts, in some localities pre-
maturely, and picking is general, al
though delayed by rain in portions of
Texas, from which State, as well as from
Georgia, a scarcity of pickers is report
ed. Dry weather is causing injury to
AoLS A Ill III VIZ iCdlIh IN
eastern sections, while worms and cater
pillars are causing injury in Oklahoma,
Louisiana, Alabama and South Caro-
lima. In Texas the boil weevils con-
tinue damaging.
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.
A light and inferior crop of apples is
indicated in a majority Of the States Of
b central valleys, but in Michigan and
Ohio and the northern portion Of the
middle Atlantic States, as we'll as in
New England, this fruit is plentiful, es-
peciaily in the last-named section, where
q large crop of fine quality Is promised.
Some late potatoes were damaged by
frost in Wisconsin; rot is increasing in
Pennsylvania and portions of Minnesota
and causing some damage in New York
and New England, while blight con-
>tinues in Michigan. Otherwise the out
look for potatoes is promising.
Flowing for fall seeding has been de-
layed by dry soil in the Ohio and lower
Mississippi valleys, Nebraska, Indian
Territory and Georgia, and rain is need
ed in Michigan for termination. Else
where blowing is well under way. Some
OF the early sown wheat is beginning to
show green in Illinois.