San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-21
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| WILL AMOUNT
| TO MILLIONS
Blizzard Carried Freezing
Temperatures Into
Florida.
PEACH CROP RUINED
outh, West and Southwest
Sustained Heaviest
4 Damage.
PEACH CROP RUINED
By ]. C. RuYLE.

Copyright. 1928. by The S. A. Light.
New York. March 2O.-The South,
Nest and Southwest sustained damage
; crops aggregating many millions OF
|ollars as a result of fhe pilzzaru
-put1eaged Monday night.
5a% storm carried freezing temper
|tuf1ee far below the Florida state
ne in the Southeast and did millions
I dollars damage to early vegetables,
Hrawberry and fruit crops.
Reports today from Atlanta m
Heated that the bulk of the Georgia
each crop which &c hours ago had
he brightest promise in years, may
Ave been killed. =,
/ Cotton PLANTED earlier than usual
II the lower Southern belt to AVOID
Images of the boil weevil, was hard
1t. Peach growers in Georgia work
II constantly with smudge fires IN
he hope Of saving some of the buds,
Int rains which fell n few hours be-
bre the cold wave, filled the buds
i-itb water and rendered them
PARTICULARLY sensitive TO damage.
Il Central Georgia orchards are in full
loom. The North Georgia crop.
}hich was two or three weeks behind
he Southern orchards, is believed to
ave escaped.
Potato Crop Suffers.
/ The fruit and vegetable crops OF
louisiana and Mississippi also suffer-
severely and many fields will have
i be replanted, their owners losing
ne advantage of the early spring
arket.
| In the Middle West one-thirl OF the
||otato crop of the Kaw Valley, or
k.actically all that was in the ground.
Hin be total loss, according to L.
Il. Bletch Of Topeka, county farEi
|,ent. The zero weather has frozen
He ground to a depth OF three inches
that section.
4 Wheat in Kansas probably suffer-
n little damage, according to s. ID.
lora, state metecrolgist.
Oats Hard Hit.
The thermometer fell TO 0 degrees
Doye zero in Oklahoma and the dam
he to the peach crop in the state
one will total approximately ST.
5000. according to John A. White
3lrst, president of the state board of
t,riculture. Loss to other crops, he
could not be. estimated although
Subtedly was extremely large.
"a probably suffered the worst OF
heu rains.
IS storms Of the last week also
ave imposed n severe check on Easter
hopping, according to reports from
! | sections Of the country. This is
hing reflected in the falling off in
borders to wholesalers and manufac-
YIrers. The effect of the weather
bnditions is expected to disappear
3iickly. however. and merchants are
bnfident that the expected volume of
Isiness is delayed, not lost.
Labor Shortage Pressing.
4 Shortage of farm labor to handle
he. spring work now under way is
ping reflected in higher wages. Farm
IS in South Dakota are paying $40
month with board and room in
uded. Wage advances are being
bnsidered by steel company execu-
yes, according to reports today from
eel centers.
The question involved. it is said,
not so much the question of an
[ivance, as whether the increase
ould be Of material benefit. since
lditional labor for the mills does not
lem available at any price and
tgher pay. executives claim, does not
i've a tendency to increase efficiency
roportionntely.
Car Men To Arbitrate.
Arbitration of the demands of the
leveland street railways company
otormen and conductors, which is
ow being arranged, may have a de-
ded effect on the scale of wages to
iIblic utility and street railroad en-
toyes throughout the country.
1 The present Cleveland scale is
p.53 TO So cents an hour and the
en- are asking advances to 65.6S and
D cents. The latter figure would
pply to all men who have been in
ne service of the company for one
EAR or longer.
Hope was expressed today by rep
ki6nt1ises of both the employees and
Employers in the New England cotton
)ills that strike over the question
! wages would be avoided as a result
a conference Friday.
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