Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — STATE CROP REPORTS. [ARTICLE]

STATE CROP REPORTS.

Rain of Material Benefit to Atlantia Coast States. Reports have been received by the weather bureau et Washington from its correspondents in all parts of the country showing weather and crop conditions. The droughty conditions in the Atlantic coast districts have been relieved by abundant rains, which, however, came too late to be of material benefit to many crops. Drought continues in the Ohio and central Mississippi valleys, and portions of the lower lake region, while excessive rains have retarded work and damaged crops in Nebraska,, Minnesota and the Ihakotas. Very general complaint of damage, especially to fruit, by high winds along the path of the tropical storm, from the Missouri valley over the northern districts to the eastward is reported. The continued prevalence of high temperatures has been favorable for maturing crops. While light to heavy frosts occurred in the upper Mississippi and upper Missouri valleys on the morning of the 17th the corn crop in those districts was so far matured as to be practically safe from injury, and although some damage from high winds is reported from Illinois and Indiana, the general conditions of the week have been favorable to corn. A large part of the crop has been cut in the States of the central valleys, and some husking has been done. Heavy rains have caused damage to cotton in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. No improvement in the condition of cotton is reported from the central portion of the cotton belt, except in southern Louisiana, where as a whole the prospects are somewhat better, while in Texas the tropical storm of the Bth and 9th completely destroyed the crop in the southern portion of its path, and damaged it in the central and northern portions. The soil is generally in excellent condition for plowing and seeding, which work has been vigorously pushed, except in the States of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, where it is too dry. Some of the early sown grain in Nebraska and Oklahoma js already up.