Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — CROPS FAVORED BY WEATHER. [ARTICLE]

CROPS FAVORED BY WEATHER.

Reports of Damage to Principal Cereals Show a Decrease. Following is the summary of the weather bureau weekly crop report: . East of the Rocky Mountains the temperature during the week was highly favorable, but in the Pacific coast States and over the western portions of the middle and northern plateau districts it was unseasonably cool, with frosts on the 13th In Washiugon and Oregon. Too much rain hindered farm work in the central gulf districts, and in parts of the Ohio valley and middle Atlantic States, while need of rain is beginning to be felt in northern New England, portions of the Carolinas, over the greater part of Texas and in southern Colorado. Drought has been relieved in the north Pacific coast districts, but continues with Increased severity in the southern plateau region. Oom had exceptionally favorable weather and made rapid growth. In the Missouri valley and parts of th* upper Ohio valley and middle Atlantic States com has, however, suffered somewhat from lack of cultivation, and in Texas the late plant is being injured by drought. Better weather for harvesting wheat prevailed than Inst week, and this work made general' ■ tisfactory progress, although still deicyed by moisture in parts of Kansas and the Ohio valley. Harvesting Is practically completed in Missouri and Nebraska, and Is well advanced In the Ohio valley and the northern part of the middle Atlantic States. As a whole both early and late spring wheat have advanced satisfactorily, the least favorable reports being received from northern Minnesota, where the crop on lowlands Is thin and late. Some reports of injury by rust are received from Nebraska, and In parts of South Dakota the outlook Is somewhat less favorable than previously indicated. .Reports of injury to oats by rust continue from the lower Missouri valley, but elsewhere this crop has advanced favor“bv- I ■’r .

Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has gotten into a war with the newspaper correspondents at Guthrie and is making an effort to give the news of territorial matters to a favored few. The trouble grow out of some indiscreet writing of the Governor’s son. N. J. Newman, a wealthy resident/of Pottawatomie County, O. T., received information of the accidental self-shoot-ing of his 17-year-old son, Homer, on a ranch in Wyoming, where the boy was spending the summer. Death resulted from the wound.