AMERICAN CROPS DAMAGED.
RESULTS OF BAD WEATHER. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 3, 11.15 p.m. New York, Sept. 2. A Washington message states that the Department of Agriculture has reported that the unfavourable weather conditions experienced recently has seriously retarded many crops. The rain has rotted potatoes in some sections, hampered the maturity of corn, and flooded the lowland eotton fields. The drenched soil has also prevented farmers ploughing the land for the winter wheat crops. Potatoes are doing well in the north-east, but in the middle Atlantic States in the Ohio Valley, rains caused wet rot. The too severe moisture has also damaged the late tomato crops. The only crops benefited by the rains are tobacco aud corn, but the latter lias now had sufficient moisture and needs dry, 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. '«
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1926, Page 13
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