The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-06-01

less injured BY wet weather: cotton chop
ping in progress; some corn yet to be
Yazoo: Ground too heavy for much
work; crops grassy and very backward;
corn with few exceptions poor; cotton
lousy.
Sharkey: Little work done owing to
excessive rains; much cotton land remains
unplowed. about one-fourth Of cotton
chopped out, cotton not chopped out over
run with grass and weeds; corn In good
condition.
Issaouena: Weather favorable since
Thursday; still many low places unplant-
ed; cotton lgrassy and growing slowly;
corn doing we'll where properly cultivated.
Warren: Soil in condition for work
latter part of week; early corn and cotton
doing we'll; chopping cotton In progress;
some corn and cotton to be planted yet;
some loWland crops damaged by overflow.
DeSoto: Too wet for farm work; all
crops growing fast but getting grassy;
pastures. gardens and potatoes doing well.
Benton: Dry enough for work only
two:days during the week; fields becoming
grassy. some crops being drowned out,
some corn to be planted yet; gardens and
pastures fine.
Alcorn: Too much rain; soil too wet to
ploW; crops grassy: considerable bottom
land not broken yet.
Prentiss: Cotton chopping general;
cotton and corn looking well; about one
third of lowlands still unbroken; week
closed with favorable conditions.
bottom lands covered with weeds and
grass; corn and cotton suffering for lack
of cultivation; all farm work three weeks
behind.
Pamela: Too much rain; crops very
grassy; stock of all kinds looking well.
Monroe: Heavy rains; crops grassy on
lowlands but look we'll on uplandsi oats
good; gardens good; but little fruit.
| Clay: Good week for work; crops
grassy.
Grenada: Heavy rains; farm work
badly behind; considerable land not yet
broken; much corn to be planted yet
acreage planted to cotton much reduced.
Winston: Rains first of week; grounds
too wet for cultivation till Thursday
nearly all crops grassy; cotton chopping in
progress, but not much chopped; corn lr
lowlands damaged by rains.
Attala: Heavy rains 2Ist and 22nd,
iSyiaHds overlooked and too wet to bs
plowed during entire week; large per cent
of the best land still unbroken; farmer:
busy cleaning crops already planted.
Kemper: Very unfavorable week fei
farming; very little blowing done; some
land not broken yet; grass very trouble
some especially in lowlands; fruit will b.
sh0fts gardens good.
Neshobas Farm work retarded BY
rains; crops grassy, eeEa locking wei
!, where cultivated.
Leake: Rain first of week; farm wess
behind and tcrops grassy; first planting
chopped opt, late up to stand but if rain:
continue VIII have to be plowed up ant
planted in corn.
Madison: Heavy rains on afst AM
22nd damaged all crops; crops grassy 6u
soil too wet to be worked; some crop:
| abandoned.
Hihas: No farm work done on frs
of week On aecsalt Of rains; cotton chop
ping pushed vigorously since, corn grow
ing we'll where cultivated.
Lauderdale: Too much rain has made
. lWeek Ynfayorable for all farm work; corr
, and eottsA grassy; corn looking yellow
Wrestling oats beg4H,
No, --@: Heavy rain on esyd, 9th
ClalDol.., - been fire for farH
erWlSe weather. no~ -ooressing, labol
work; cotton chopping Pr. rnttof
scarce, bottom lands very Mesay.
HOOKING well and growing fast where
worked; planting about finished; corn i'm
proving; pastures fine.
Copiah: Farm work retarded by heavy
rain on 22nd; fields grassy; corn begun
to take on good color and growing nicely;
cotton up to a good stand, looking well
where worked.
Smith: Heavy rains on 22nd and 24th
almost completely stopped farm work;
crops very grassy; fruit scarce.
Jasper: Cotton chopping in full pro-
gress; cotton and corn looking we'll;
weather warm; crops very grassy; labor
scarce.
Wayne: Two rains during week,
which were beneficial to clean crops, but
did some slight damage to grassy and I'M
chopped cotton of which there is consider
Bile.
Covington: Weather showery; work
delayed and badly behind; cotton looks
we'll, ehopping progressing slowly; all
crops need work.
Lincoln: Two rainy days; cotton and
corn planting nearing completion, and