The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-08-13
CORN GREATLY DAMAGED
BY CONTINUED DROUGHT


The latest crop bulletin issued by
the state board of agriculture shows
the growing condition OF all crops up
TO the 25th of July. with a few sup
Elemental expressions concerning GER
tain crops. According to the report
general conditions throughout the
state have not been up 60 the stand.
ard and have been unfayorable to
growing conditions Of the staple crops.
Corn is shown to be the principal suf.
ferer, dropping 25.6 per cent in thirty
days, due to excessive heat, high
winds aud sparce rainfall throughout
the state as a whole. Plenty of mols.
ture seems to have been in the soil,
and as far as the corn plant was con.
cerned, was up TO the standard for
this date.
Intense heat, however, was very
destructive and appears to have dried
and retarded the development of the
plant from the top, killing the pollen
and thus preventing fertilization. In
many localities of the state the yield
will be cut short on this account Up
to July 20 cotton had not suffered ma
terially, but many correspondents
have supplemented their early report
by advising that cotton on the upland
has. on account of drouth, stopped
growing and is shedding. In some
counties, however, the growing condi.
ton has increased during July as
compared with the previous month,
The growing condition of broom
corn is shown to be 740 per cent as
compared with SIS on the same date
last year, difference In favor of last
years crop at this time of 75 per
cent. The prevailing weather condi-
tions in many sections of the broom
corn district are not at this time all
that would be desired. Farmers were
late In getting their broom corn plant
ed on account of wet weather, and the
scarcity Of rainfall during the month
is beginning to make an impression
upon the growing condition of the
present crop. But few reports indi
cate that broom corn has fired to any
appreciable extent.
The actual weather conditions az
shown by the report gives the average
maximum temperature for the month
ending July rs, 1909, to be 95.S de
grees as compared with $50 degrees
for the previous month, an increas,
of SO degrees The highest temper
ature among the eleven stations was
reached at Ardmore for three success
siye days, being 1Os degrees on the
10th, 18th and 18th of the month
High temperature prevailed through
out the state on July 9-15 inclusive.
The average minimum temperature
for the month Just ended is 7l.6 de
grees, an increase of rs degrees al
compared with that of the previoui
month.
The average mean temperature fol
the eleven stations is S3.7 degrees
as compared with 75.5 for the pre-
vious month, an increase of 80 de
grees. The average mean tempera
ture for the month just ended is abou
81 degrees above normal for the
state.
The average total rainfall for tho
eleven stations is shown to be 1.3.
inches as compared with 1928 inches
last month and 5.s4 inches for the
month ending May 25th, 1909, or a de
crease from last month of 1.96 inches
The rainfall for the month just pass
ed is about 2.49 inches below normal
The precipitation has apparently beer
made up of more or less local show
ers for the entire state, but there ap
pears to have been a more general
rainfall throughout the eastern and
northeastern sections
A direct result OF the extremely
high temperature and the scanty
rainfall during the month, crops have
suffered materially. the growing con
ditions have been considerably lower
ed; and the prospects for a full eroI
are not as promising as for the montI
ending June 225 225, 1909