People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — RUINED THE CROPS. [ARTICLE]

RUINED THE CROPS.

Great Damage Results from the Cold Snap. Early Vegetable* and Fruit Buda Are Frozen—Wheat and Oat* Suffer Great, ly—Losses In the -Fast and South Over 51.000.000. PROSPECTS ABE GLOOMY. New Yoke, March 28.—Reports from ▼arious sections in the south and east Bhow great damage to fruits and early vegetables as a result of the cold wave. Along the Atlantic coast railway lines in the south the damage is estimated at above 11,000,000. In Virginia the loss is not yet ascertained, but will be heavy. In South Carolina the freeze was general throughout the trucking district. In Delaware it is believed the peach crop is ruined and other fine fruit prospects destroyed. In the grape growing regions of western New York the buds have been destroyed, and vast j losses are feared in consequence. Chattanooga, Teun., March 29. The extreme cold weather of the last two days will cost truck farmers and fruit raisers in Hamilton county alone 8100,000. j Gband Rapids, Mich., March 29. The loss to fruit-growers from the recent cold wave seems to have been greatly exaggerated so far as this part of the state is concerned. Fruit-grow-ers from Allegan, Ottawa and Kent counties, constituting the Grand River Valley Horticultural society, met here Tuesday with samples from their trees, and expert examination showed very few buds injured by the cold weather. Most of the farmers present estimated their loss at not over 10 per cent * Benton Hakbor, Mich., March 29. Pclad Morrill, one of the principal fruit growers of this section, says that upon examination but few fruit buds are found to be injured by the cold wave. He says there will be full crops of peaches, apples, cherries and pears. Small fruits and grapes are not advanced enough to be hurt. Apricots were killed.

Cairo, 111., March 28.—The disastrous effects of the cold snap of the last four days are now fully apparent The fruit crop of southern Illinois will be a total failure Apples, cherries,peaches,strawberries and growing vegetables are all ruined, and even the grapes, which were just commencing to show signs of spring life, have been given up by growers as lost. Reports from Villa Ridge, the greatest fruit-growing section of southern Illinois and which annually ships scores of car loads of strawberries and green vegetables to Chicago, fully confirms the fears that were at first entertained. Everything is lost, Wheat is badly damaged, and the corn and early potato crops are all that growers have to depend upon. Nashville, 111., March 29.— Small fruits are all killed in this section beyond a doubt, and the young trees have suffered the same fate. The wheat, which had been more promising than in years before, is blighted, and excellent judges doubt if half a crop will be harvested. Oats are seriously injured, but time remains for resowing. Columbus, 0., March 29.— Secretary L. N. Bonham, of the state board of agriculture, said that the cold wave had no doubt ruined the peach, pear and cherry crop in Ohio. He doubted if the apples were far enough along to be affected by the cold. Oskaloosa, la., March 29. —Farmers say that three-quarters of the oat acreage is sown and that the freezing of Sunday and Monday will necessitate a resowing. Nearly one-half of the potato crop is planted, and it is thought that the planting will have to be gone over. The early fruit crop is entirely ruined. Fall wheat also suffered greatly. Sedalia, Mo., March 29. —The present cold snap has resulted in killing all of the sprouted oats, of which there is a large acreage in Pettis county. Wheat is frozen Until it looks black and all shallow-covered potatoes are also frozen. Early cherries and plums are killed, while some of the late varieties are damaged. Early vegetation of all kinds has been destroyed and the total damage in this section by the cold wave will aggregate many thousands of dollars.