Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-26
COTTON DAMAGED
90 PER CENT BY
COLD AND SNOW?
Fruit, However, Escaped With
out Iniury-CommisSioner of
Agriculture Says Weather
Will NeceSSitate RepIanting.
la INCHES OF SNOW
FELL HERE DURING NIGHT


STOW Sunday night. but cotton. accord
ing to t. G. Hudson. commissioner of ag-
ricuIture. has been injured 80 per cent
BY this immediate cold and the unfavOra-
bic weather prevailing for the past ten
days. He says that much Of the cotton
that has come up has died under the
cold and that seed has rOtted in the
ground. with the result taht 80 per cant
OF the crop must be replanted. IL is his
opinion that the Georgia cotton crop, as
a result OF the weather Sunday night and
o. the past ten days. will be short unless
conditions for the rest OF the season are
ideal
One and One-fOurth inches OF snow fell
here Monday morning and the tempera-
ture went to SO degrees. This is the
heaviest fan OF snok ever known here
in April IL also comes at a later date
than snow was ever known here. The
temperature was the lowest ever reached
SO late in April
LOWEST IN ATLANTA.
Reports 10 the weather bureau show
that the minimum temperature here Mon
day morning was the lowest recorded
throughout the United States. There was
snow, however, both at Montgomery and
Birmingham, and a touch OF wintry
weather was felt even at New Orleans
and other places along the gulf coast.
There was no snow in Georgia south OF
Atlanta. and no sleet or ice was report
ed In any part of the state. 1t is not
thought that any lower temperatures
we're recorded north OF here in the state,
and the weather was considerably warm
er to the south.
At Macon the minimum was 40 de-
greez. At Savannah it was 81 degrees.
No injury to fruit from the weatheF is
expected Monday night, though conditions
viii continue bad for cotton. II will grow
very little warmer throughout the day.
and In the night a minimum of from s.
TO . degrees will probably be reached.
cIoudiness. however. is expected TO pre-
vent frost Conditions Tuesday, which is
Memorial day. will be excellent.
SNOW PROVED PROTECTION.
The snow, in the opinion Of Forecaster
Won Hermann and State Entomologist
Worsham. proved a protection for the
fruit Under a covering OF snow a tenn
perature lower than freezing cannot be
reached Peaches were developed to
where "a temperature lower than freez-
ing could not have affected them, so
with heir blanket or snow they were
furnished with a protection left them
immune 20 the weather.
The only thing that could do harm
now TO fruit would be clear night and
another drop to freezing temperature.
The fOrecaster says that ii will be too
cloudy for frost and that the tempera-
ture shouldn't go below So degrees.
IL is the opinion Of the state entomoI-
ogist and the secretary OF agriculture
that nothing but cotton has been injur-
ed. and this damage is due to the accu-
INFLATED effect Of the past ten days in
stead OF to the cold Sunday night ami
Monday morning. Early vegetables are
thought to have escaped without injury.
Some loss may have been suffered by
florists
WHAT wORSHAM SAYS.
State EntomoIOgist Worsham says:
I am certain that fruit in south and
middle Georgia wasn't hurt. and l don't
think IL suffered any north of here. II
L. my opinion that the entire Georgia
peach crop escaped without injury
Many OF the earlier peaches are half
grown. and the rest are developed To
where they are hardy enough 10 win
stand very unfavOrable weather.
The snow. of course. afforded protec-
ton Vegetation is not hurt by snow 1
have seen an instance where u inches
OF snow did no damage whatever TO vege-
tation-
.As far as / have been able 10 learn
il was no colder north of here than il
was I'm Atlanta, and / know from exam
ming peaches in my own yard that fruit
here was not hurt
a report 1 got this morning al 2
o'clock from-my agent OF Calhoun was
that II was still showing there, but that
the temperature was then "A degrees, and
early In the morning had been 50 de-
grees."
MUST REPLANT COTTON.
Commissioner OF Agriculture Hudson
says:
Fifty per cent OF the Georgia cotton
crop will have 20 be replanted because
Of the weather last night and for the past
ten days
Il expect the Georgia crop to be light
as a result Of this In the first place
there will be difficulty in getting seed
for repIanting for there is a shortage OF
seed now. and what is not will be infe-
rior in quality. In the next place, late
cotton never yields as well as earlier cot
ton.
About - per cent OF the crop has
been planted. Practically all Of the crop
I'm south Georgia has been planted This
IS due to the warm weather coming be-
fore the past ten days OF cold. The plan
ing has been earlier than have known II
10 be in years.
Much Of the cotton was up when the
during the past week Seed that had not
sprouted had terminated and a great
many are rotting in the. ground.
In north Georgia there will have 70
be a general replanting. In south Geor-
gfa. much OF the cotton that is up and
much that hasn't sprOuted will have to be
pIOughed up and planted over"
The scarcity of seed is going 10 pre-
sent a serious proposition. Where to get
what to replant with viii be the question.
Many are not going tS be able TO get seed
at all and the majority will have to be
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