The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-21
CONDITION OF THE CROPS
Weekly Bulletin Issued By the Weather
Bureau.
SPRING WHEAT SEEDING DELAYED.
A Summary Of the Reports From All Sections
Of the Country Indicates That Serious
Damage Was Done by the Cold Spell
and the Late Frost-Wlnter Wheat Is 10
Promising Condition.

Washington, d. C., (Special)
reports from all sections of the country
are summarized in the weekly bulletin
of the Weather Bureau as follows:
Oven nearly the whole of the coun-
try the week ended April II was abnor-
mally cold and unfavorable for germina-
ton and growth. In Western North Da-
kota the temperature fell nearly to zero
on the 10Th and on this and the follow
ing date exceptionally low temperatures
for the season occurred throughout the
country east of the Rocky Mountains,
freezing temperatures occurring as far
south as the northern portions of Ala
bama and Georgia and Central South
Carolina, with light to heavy frosts in the
central portion of the East Gulf States
and light frost at Jacksonville. The
damaging effects of this cold period,
which came at the close Of the week,
are not fully covered in the reports col
lected at the climate and crop centers
on the 18TH and used in the preparation
of this bulletin. Heavy rains were I'M
favorable in the South Atlantic and
Central Gulf States, while the need of
rain is beginning to be felt in portions
of the Lower Missouri Valley and on
the extreme North Pacific Coast. The
temperature conditions on the Pacific
Coast were unfavorable.
While complaining has continued in
Kansas, Missouri and Southern Illinois,
none has been planted farther north nor
in the Upper Ohio Valley and Middle
States. Preparations for planting have
been active in the central valleys, where
planting will be vigorously pushed as
soon as temperature conditions are fav-
orable- In the South Atlantic and East
Gull States planting is about finished
and early corn is being cultivated.
Winter wheat continues in promising
condition generally throughout the coun-
try, but is beginning to need rain in
portions of Kansas and Michigan
Very slow progress was made with
spring wheat seeding over the northern
portion of the spring wheat region, as
this work could be prosecuted only in
the afternoons on account of low tenn
peratnres. The early sown spring wheat
does not appear to have sustained in
jury from recent cold, except in Ne
braska, where some fields were slightly
damaged
Dat seeding was also delayed in the
Dakotas, Minnesota lake region and
portions of the Middle Atlantic States.
While growth of the early sown has
been checked and some injury sus-
tanned in Nebraska, the general situation
respecting this crop continues promising.
Cotton planting is much delayed in
Mississippi and Louisiana, and is later
than usual IN Texas and the Carolinas.
Better progress with this work has been
made in Alabama and Georgia, and in
the southern portions of these states is
nearing completion. Fair to good stands
of the early planted are reported from
Alabama, Georgia and Florida. In Tex
as the early planted is reported as
promising. Tobacco plants are generally
plentiful and trans-planting has begun
in South Carolina and Florida.
While fruit must necessarily have sus-
tanned injury from the severe cold dur
ing the latter part Of the week in the
Central and Southern districts, it is
probable that in the more northerly Sec
tons to the eastward of the Mississippi
River the damage has been less serious.
In New England and the northern por-
tion of the Lake Region it is probable
that no serious injury has been done.