A CYCLONE.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1169, 27 April 1910, Page 3

A CYCLONE.

U.S.A. COTTON CROPS RUINED

LOSSES, £6,000,000

BY EUKOTBIO TELEGRAPH —OOPYRIOMS [FSB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received April 27, 9 a.m.) New York, April 26. The- losses in fruit and vegetables through, frosts, in the United States are estimated at £6,000,000. Wheat and oats in the West have also suffered badly. (Received April 27, 9.30 a.m.) New York, April ;J7. Orchards and gardens in the Mississippi valley resembled a bivoueked army, owing to the wool, coal, and straw fires which were kept going throughout the' night. Blankets and quilts were used in thousands of cases to protect the blossoming trees from the frost and snow, and saved the lowa strawberry beds. The cranberry crops in the marshes are being saved by artificial flooding. London, April 26. Renter's correspondent reports that the States of Atlanta and Georgia have suffered the destruction of their cotton betJ, and it was the most disastrous setback since the Civil War. New York, April 26. It is reported that thousands of acres of cotton in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas have been injured, and cotton must be replanted. The storm is sweeping eastwards, leaving ruined crops and orchards. Heavy frosts are being experienced in the Ohio valley and the interior ' of the States bordering on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic. Cotton seed oil mills have been requested not to crush until farmers are supplied with sufficient seed for replanting. It is doubtful whether sufficient seed will be procured to sow hall the area devastated. I