The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
ALL RAINS LIGHT
Temperatures Moderate Over
Whole State Last Week.
Mr.. Flora Says Deep Roots Are
Saving Corn.

Temperatures were moderate most
of this week over Kansas and local
showers fell in practically every eoune
tyr- but they were not heavy enough
to do any good, except in a rev re-
stricted localities in the southwest, ac-
cording to the weekly bulletin of the
Topeka bureau office. The drought
is becoming quie severe in all parts
except the extreme western counties
that received good rains the week
previous.
Corn is reported to have rooted un-
usually deep this year and has stood
the dry weather well so far, but is rap
idly approaching the stage where
soaking rains will be necessary to
make a good crop. Its color is good
and it is still making a fairly good
growth in ali parts. Tasseling is Just
beginning in the southeast portion.
Cultivation is generally finished and
the crop has, been laid by free from
weeds Just a few north central and
northwestern counties, where the
drought has been most severe, report
that corn is beginning to fire and is
tasseling prematurely.
Wheat and oats harvest is finished
in the eastern third of the state and
the south-central portion, is almost
over in the north-centrad portion, and
we'll under way in the extreme west
ern counties. tho in the ,ast named
ting Threshing both crops is in full
swing in the southeast and south
central portions and is beginning here
and there almost to the Nebraska line
in the eastern portion of the state.
Conditions have been unusually favor
able for harvest and threeshing, and
the quality as well as quantity of the
yield has been high in the eastern
counties.
Grain sorghums are in fair to good
condition, but their growth has been
greatly checked and they are behind
the season.
The early potato corp is now being
extensively dug for the market and
it develops that it is considerably
short of the usual yield.
The second cutting of alfalfa has
been put up in excellent condition.
The third crop is making very slow
growth Prairie hay is also short.
Broom corn is in fair condition.
Reports from the Garden City dis
trict state that the sugar beet crop
| is growing well and is being thinned
| tho it is two weeks late.
Early apples are ripe and are being
| marketed.
| Corn Belt Report.
| Washington, July 1S.-While cold
weather prevailed, within the past
week. the rainfall was sufficient and
we'll distributed from the MisSissippi
] river eastward, and corn, gardens
/ pastures, fruit and potatoes made good
! growth except that 1t was too cool for
| corn near the Lakes. Corn was great
J ly damaged by drouth and high tenn
peratures in Texas, Oklahoma and
/ parts of Kansas. 1t was we'll culti-
waited in the central Mississippi and
| Missouri valley states, weedy in the
upper Ohio valley and tasseling north
! to central Missouri.
Harvesting grains was delayed by
rain in the Ohio valley and eastward
1t has progressed well elsewhere and
/ is under way to southern Iowa The
winter wheat harvest is ten days to
two weeks behind the average spring
wheat harvest. Other grains were i'm
proved by showers in Minnesota and
the Dakotas but suffering greatly in
Montana and westward.