Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-06
WEATHER NOT GOOD FoR CROPS
Heavy Rains Delay Work and Cool
NIGHTS Retard termination.

The weather bureaus weekly bulletin
summarizes crop conditions as follows:
The weather conditions Of the week
ending May % have been generally I'M
favorable. except in portions of the mid
die, south Atlantic and gulf States and
upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys,
the southern Rocky mountain region and
California. Frequent and in some cases
heavy rains have delayed work in east
trn districts snd on the north Pacific
coast, but improved conditions of grains
and grasses, while cool nights and cloudy
weather have retarded termination and
growth ia nearly all districts. Erosts
more or less damaging occurred in New
England, the northern portion of the
middle Atlantic States. in Ohio, the
northern Rocky mountain region, in Ore
gon and Washington.
Further delay in corn planting is re-
ported from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
and much replanting is necessary in the
first and last named States as well as in
Iowa and Nebraska. Planting is nearly
completed in southern Missouri and
about three-fourths of the area is plant
ed in Iowa and northern Missouri, most
ly finished in Nebraska and central lii
nois, and this work is now being vigor-
ously pushed in Indiana and Kentucky.
On dry, warm soils in Iowa termination
is fairly good, but corn needs warmth and
sunshine to insure satisfactory growth.
Cutworms are damaging in the Ohio val
ley and portions of the middle and south
Atlantic States, while the crop is suffer
ing from lack of cultivation in the last
named district and in the States of the
lower Mississippi valley.
Winter wheat generally continues
promising, although complaints of rust
are received from Kentucky, Tennessee,
Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas and re-
ports of short straw from portions Of The
middle Atlantic States, Illinois and Mis-
souri,. The crop is beginning to head
in southern NebraslI. Winter wheat
is doing well in California, heading nice
ly in Oregon, and looking well, but max
ing slow progress in Washington owing
to heavy frosts, which cut down some
grain in low valleys.
More favorable weather conditions dur
ing the latter part of the week have
caused spring wheat to improve rapidly,
and this crop is now making satisfactory
progress, except on lowlands in North
Dakota, where slight damage was done
by flooding and some scattered fields of
the late sown are thin in So It'll Dakota.
Spring wheat is advancing satisfactorily
in Oregon, and though heavy frosts caus-
ed some damage in low valleys in Wash
| ington the crop will recover and is look
ing we'll 40
The general condition of oats is salts
factory The crop as a whole has made
good growth, although retarded by cool
and cloudy weather in Minnesota dur
ing the fore part of the week and by
floods in portions Of Ohio, while some
scattered fields are thin IN Nebraska and
South Dakota and considerable rust is
reported from northern Texas. While
good stands of cotton are generally re-
ported from the eastern and central sec
tons of the cotton belt, cool nights have
checked growth and the staple is suf-
fering from lack of sunshine and cult
walton, complaints of grassy fields being
received from nearly every State in these
two sections. Planting is finished in
South Carolina and Alabama. nearly
completed in North Carolina and Mis-
sissppi, but about % per cent of the
area remains to be planted in Louisiana
and Arkansas.
Tobacco plants are plentiful in Ken
lucky and transplanting continues in that
State as well as in Indiana. Maryland
and North Carolina. Considerable has
been planted in Virginia, but the soil is
too wet locally for this work. The crop
is suffering from lack of proper cultiya-
ton in North Carolina
Less favorable reDOrtS are received
regarding apples. Prospects for this
crop are deteriorating in Missouri, the
bloom is not as full as usual in New
England, dropping is reported from Vir-
ginia Kentucky, Tennessee and southern
Illinois and less promising conditions are
indicated in Ohio. In other principal
apple-growing States the crop continues
promising.