The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-28
WEATHER TOO COLD
FOR GOOD OF CROPS
Such Is the General Character
ization Of the Week That
Ended Monday
FROST DID MUCH DAMAGE
Fruits Especially Have Suffered, but
Full Reports Cannot Be Given
in the Present Weather.
Crop Bulletins.

Washington, April 2o.--Crop reports
from all sections of the country sum
married. in the weekly bulletin of the
weather bureau. follow:
over nearly the whole country the
week ending April II was abnormally
cold and unfuVorable for terminating
and growth.
In western North Dakota the tenn
perature fell nearly to zero on the
10th, and on this and the following date
exceptionally low temperatures for the
season occurred throughout the cOun-
Try east Of the Rocky mountains, freeZ-
ing temperatures occurring as far south
as the northern porllons OF Alabama
and Georgia, ana central South Caro-
lima. With light to heavy frost at Jack
sonNille, The damaging effects of this
cold period, which came at the close
of the week, are not fully covered in
the reports collected at the climate and
crop centers on the 18th. and used in
the preparation Of the bulletin.
Heavy rains Were unfavo.able in the
south Atlantic and central gulf states.
while need OF rain is beginning to be
felt in portions of the lower MISSISSIPPI
pi valley and on the extreme north Pa
citic coast. Temperature conditions on
the Pacific coast are UnfaVoribe.
Corn and Wheat Outlook.
While corn planting has continued
IN Kansas, Missouri and southern 1li-
nois. none has been planted farther
north, nor in the upper Ohio valley and
middle states. Preparations for plant
ing have been active in the central
valleys.
Winter wheat continues in promis-
Ing condition generally throughout the
country, 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
tlis work could be prosecuted only in
the afternoons, on account of the low
Temperatures. Early sown spring
wheat does not appear to have sus-
tanned injury from the recent cold eX-
cept in Nebraska. where some fields
were slightly damaged.
! Fruit Has Suffered.
Dat seeding was also delayed in the
Dakotas, Minnesota, the lake region
md portions OF the middle Atlanti,
states While the growth Of the early
Sown has been checked, and some in.
jury was sustained in Nebraska, the
!. general situation respecting the oror
! continues promising.
| While fruit must necessarily have
sustained injury from the severe colo
during the latter part of the week il
| The central and southern districts. it i:
| ,Jlo'JdDlc tilfil Ill tHe lnoIe llollHeIlN
sections to the cas- ard of the Mis-
| sissippi river, the damage has beef
less serious. In New England ana tn,
northern portion of the lake region i
/ Is probable that no "erious injury ha
been done
More Bad Frosts in the South.
Norfolk, w. Va, April 1S There were
killing frosts last night throughout thu
eastern Virginia truck belt, with NOR,
and heavier damages to growing crop
/ than on the night before. Weathe
| Forecaster Gray reported n killing fros
+ IN North Carolina, Georgia and Ten
| 'eSsee last night