The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1910-04-29
CROP WIPED
OUT By COLD.
Frost Sunday Might Worst Oisastes
FarMpers Ever Experteaeea.

Fsrmers Ever Expesleseea.
Late advises from all parts Of the
state indicate thousands of dollars
worth of damage by frost and
fire., zing weather Sunday night and
Monday. Fields of acres of corn
and cotton are wiped out, while
truck farmers have lost practically
their entire early season crop.
Not only was there frost, but ice,
in many places al far south as
Columbia, while kilograms from
many towns in the state, north,
east, south and west, indicate the
greatest disaster to the agricultural
interests of the state in many years.
The crop loss is practically COM
plete.
Many of the farmers, who had
planted and worked their cotton for
the first time, have not enough seed
in hand to replant. The price of
seed, according to advices, has
scared skyward in anticipation of q
demand exceeding the supply. The
prediction is made that tho cotton
crop of Mississippi for this year will
not exceed one-third of last year,
which means thousands of dollars
loss to the cotton planters alone,
while the damage to the trucking
interests, to say nothing of fruit,
corn and other crops, will run the
the total losses up into the hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
1t is the greatest disaster that has
befallen Mississippi in many years.
Never have the farmers been hit so
hard as by this cold spell. 1t is
said to have been the coolest wealth
or known in Mississippi for over 16
years. Sleet and snow fell as far
south as Canton Sunday, twenty
miles north of jackson. Practically
all vegetation was killed there, and
many of the planters according to
information received here will not
attempt to replant their cotton.
Corn and food crops will be planted
in fields where only cotton has
grown for many years past.
Even the delta section suffered
tremendous losses. That is where
most of Mississippi's cotton is pro-
duced, but thousands of acres OF the
staple were wiped out and much OF
the land will be planted in corn and
other crops as soon as the land can
be made ready, though some of the
planters, who have seed, will replant,
to a large extent, their full cotton
acreage.
Seed we've scarce all this last
season, and high. The oil mills
have acquired practically all the
seed in the state, and most of them
have been crushed already. But
there has been a demand on the
mills for cotton seed, and manv o.
the farmers r being supplied from
the scanty stock in hand. Corn was
killed too and this must be re
planted.
kilograms have been coming into
Greenwood from all parts of the
state all day, telling tales of de
struction and there was not a county
in the state so far as known, tina
escaped serious loss through The
cold.
Information from Crystal Springs
the finest truck growing section O
the state, and where thousands o
dollars have been invested in i'm
provements in the last few years
is that all beans, tomatoes and SINH
lar vegetation was killed outright
while the more hardy plants wer'
badly damaged. The damage to thu
strawberry crop was tremendous
Shipping has just cotton we'll unde
way and the fruit IA especially fin
for this season, with prices ranging
high, but the crop was PRACTICAL.
destroyed, as there was no way t
protect either the plants or the fruit
From all points in the trucl
farming section of the state it is tn
same report-everything killed