Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — IN NEED OF RAIN. [ARTICLE]

IN NEED OF RAIN.

Weather Bnreaa Report, the Crops Snfferfoe Moisture. The synopsis of the conditions of the crops throughout the country and the influence of weather on growth, cultivatios and harvest, as rep rted by th - Chicago station of the Weather r 4 reau, u as follows: __The week ha. been better t v . / throughout the .oothern por HjTkl country from the middle r W the lantlc coast westward S* s oA AtNearly normal temper? ** Vbe V.clfla New England, New'’ ..r-Se prevailed over and Central Mtssi 'and In the Ohio was decidedly Vaftoys. while it Southern 171' ✓sra |i l ner then usual from sota and »’ .-/fltSflh westward over MlnneExce- 'Dakotas. ly V areas, coothed mostb Souftodrih States, the past week Yeify dry. Heavy rsin* occurred ~ •VSr portion of Georgia and / over portions of Florida, the Carolinas, dftilsi&na. MtmlMippl and but ; there are Considerable area 9 in the Southi, ’em States where but little rain has fallen, while throughout the region from the middle Atlantic coast northwestward, over the Ohio, upper Mississippi and Missouri j valleys and the lake roglon, only very l light showers haTe fallen, and over a great part of the territory named practically no rain has fallen. Tho absence of rain throughout ao much j of the country during the week has greatly Intensified the drought conditions which previously existed, and, while all crops j need rain throughout tlve central valleys and middle and New England States, the warm, dry weather has been espec ally favorable for threshing of wheat Winter ; wheat harvest is now completed as far north as Southern Michigan and thrashing has progres ed rapidly. Spring wheat is reported as considerably i Injured by drought In North Dakota Corn Is reported as in favorable condition in Illinois and Kansas, and as much Improved In Arkausns. It is suffering seriously In Wisconsin and lowa In the ! last named btate It Is reported In critical l condition, and a conilnuatlon of the prevailing drought will greatly reduce the , crop. The general condition of cotton, except over southwest Texas, where It. needs rain, is satisfactory. It Is fruiting well and has j been laid by In Georria and Mississippi, Tobacco is suflering from drought In ! Ohio and Kentucky, but In Tennessee it Is I doing well, though small Cranberries have been Injured by heat In Wisconsin.