NORTH AMERICAN CROPS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 291, 4 September 1926, Page 9

NORTH AMERICAN CROPS

UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER IN UNITED STATES. (Rec. September 3, 9.15 p.m.) Washington, September 2. The Agricultural Department reports that unfavourable weather conditions in recent weeks have seriously retarded many crops. Rain has rotted potatoes in some sections, hampered the maturity of corn, flooded lowland cotton fields, and drenched the soil. It has also prevented farmers ploughing their land for winter wheat crops. Potatoes are doing well in the north-east, but in the middle Atlantic States and Ohio Valley rain has caused wet rot. 100 much moisture has also damaged late tomato crops. The only crops benefited by the rains are tobacco and corn, but the latter has now had sufficient moisture, and needs drv, warm weather to hasten maturity. Sugar cane in the South and sugar beets in the West are reported to be in excellent condition, and a big production of them is forecasted. CANADIAN HARVESTING HINDERED. (Rec. September 3, 0.15 p.m.) Winnipeg, September 2. A week’s delav in harvesting operations has been caused by inundated irrigation ditches, the toll of torrential rains in Alberta since Monday. Hrev are expected to cease to-day. The shipment of coal in the Macleod River district has been brought to a standstill and two bridges have been washed out. Conditions in other prairie provinces are favourable to an earlier resumption of harvesting, which will Benin in Manitoba next week. Saskatchewan has suffered ’east, and harvesting will begin there immediately.