The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-12

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I pastures nearly ready to turn on; 10
| damage by cold weather.
! Lyon-Rains beneficial to wheat pro-
badly no damage done by freezing
/ weather.
Marshall-Too wet for farm work.
but oats are nearly all sown; wheat
and tame grass are doing well; peach
trees beginning to show buds; F1rol);l-
bly, no damage by freezing weather.
sAIiaTni-TVe Gather generally favora bic
till the STORM of the sths fruit pros
poets fair.
Nontgomery-A cool. wet week. ia
vorable for wheat and oats, which are
looking well, but unfavorable for
planting and terminating corn; grass
starting; apples and cherries in bloom
trees full; also strawberries; sod in
fine condition.
Morris-Cold. wet week: wheat and
rye in fine condition: oats sown and a
good stand; blue grass looking fine;
fall sown alfalfa mostly dead
Osage-Too wet for blowing or plant
ing; gardens not doing well on ac-
count of cold weather: fruit trees in
bloom; small fruits injured by cold
weather; wheat in good condition
Rlley-F'arm work retarded by wet
weather; wheat and oats coming on
nicely; apricots in bloom; some dam
age reported to early fruits.
+ Shawnee-Wheat and rye better than
delayed on account of wet weather;
about half sown; some killed by frost;
cattle wintered WE'LL pastures getting
green; peaches very promising.
Wabaunsee-Wheat in the valley in
fine condition, and all a good average;
grass starting nicely, and some viii
turn cattle out next week: soil in fine
condition; fair acreage; apparently mc
damage by the freeze.
Wilson-Wheat short for the season,
but of good color and a fair stand, but
has not grown for two weeks; oats
looking well: rain on the 5th helped
he.
is planted may have to be planted
over.
Woodson-Plowing mostly done; some
corn planted; ground too wet to work;
alfalfa doing well.
Wyandotte- little farm work
done on account of cool, wet weather;
wheat generally looking we'll; plum
and peach trees ready to bloom.
Middle Division.
Wheat generally is in good condi-
ton and is now growing we'll except in
Mitchell, where it was damaged by
Clay, where the early sown was badly
injured by the fly, some of which
ground has been plowed up and sown
to oats Oat sowing is about finished,
and the oats are up in the south and
coming up in the north and look well.
Corn planting is progressing, and in
the south is nearly finished Barley
is in good condition in Republic, but
the ground in Stafford is too dry to
sprout it. Rye has improved in Clay.
Alfalfa and grass are starting well, !
but in Butler the alfalfa sown last fall
is not doing well. The ground is gen
orally in good condition, but in Pratt
it is dry and in Stafford it is getting
dry. Peache s are nearly out of bloom |
In the south and are beginning to |
bloom in the north. Sumner reports |
serious injury to the peach crop. April |
cots are blooming in the north and /
have nearly finished blooming in the
cold in Cloud. Plums are in bloom. /
Apples are blooming in Sumner and |
cherries in Reno. Reports of damage !
10 fruit vary sufficiently to warrant /
waiting for more positive information |
Barton-GOOd rains this week; I
wheat looks we'll; spring work much |
farther advanced than usual; effects /
Of freezing weather cannot yet be |
determined.
Butler-Too cold for rapid growth; |
arm work delayed by the rain; wheat. /
pats and meadows doing fairly we'll; /
alfalfa, last fall sowing, is poor; old |
crop looks well.
Clay-Wheat and rye much i'm
Early sown wheat considerably dam
aged by fly; some of it being plowed
md sown to oats; oats coming up /
nicely; snow and cold weather injured
CIoud-A favorable week for wheat
md oats; apricots damaged by low
of Sth and 9Th.
Cowley-Wheat in good condition;
,ats coming up nicely; grass begin
ling to grow; farm work well ad-
ranced; fruit damaged.
Dickinson-A fine growing week,
With no damage to fruit or oats;
wheat unusually fine; oats above the
lverage; some corn planted; gardens
Up.
F,dwards-Wheat in fine condition,
no moisture has fallen I'M
WI a 2OOQ
peaches and plums in bloom.
Ellsworth-Wheat looks we'll; grass
starting finely; ground In fine condt-
ion; some corn planted; oats up; cat
.Ie in unusually good condition for the
line of year.
grass beginning to grow; fruit in fine
condition.
Kingman-Wheat in fine condition;
BATS and barley about all up and do
ng we'll; blowing for corn interrupted
1y rains; grass growing; fruit appar~
entity not injured by cold weather
Lincoln-Wheat greatly improved oy
aims; early fruit greatly damaged
McPherson-Whe generally in good
condition: recent showers suffice Tor
he surface and subson is still wet
rom last years rain; early bloomed
ruit damaged; no damage this storm.
Mitchell-Wheat damaged by orourn
md high wind.
OsboTne-A dry week; wheat doing
we'll and growing.
OttawaSWheat in good condition
md growing we'll; oats coming up
,ince the rains; alfalfa starting nicely;
.arly potatoes planted; early peaches,
,lums and apricots in bloom; fruits
lot believed to be damaged by cold
PhilIips-Wheat in good condition.
,arly fruit slightly damaged.
Pratt-A dry, dusty week with high
Wind: crops at a standstin.
Reno-Wheat doing well, though
some by high wind in sandy
oil. alfalfa looking well; not much
,orn planted; soil in good condition;
1eaches. apricots and nectarines very