Show FIElD CROPS IN IM GOOD OU I SHAPE SAYS ALTER Field crops and farmS farm work have made nade rapid progress g generally over oyer the country according to the National Weather Veather and Crop Bulletin although some wet soils solis delayed planting and cultivating in parts of the lower great reat plains and parts of ot Arkansas Arkansas' and Missouri On the the- theother other hand rain was needed in parts parts- of ot the south AtlantIc Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic coast and New York Corn planting has made rapid progress ress tess and is now practically completed in many of ot the important corn grow grow grow- in j in-j states Winter wheat has shown material improvement in all the principal prin prin- cipal prod producing states conditions be being be- be ing Inc especially favorable in th the central I be-I s g t Th s g t Th great p at-p plains states The crop Is ripening ripen ripen- ing in n the Southern states has headed head head- ed edo edo out t generally northward to Tennessee Tennes Tennes- s' s see and in southern K Kansas the Harvest barvest harvest Har bar vest is expected to begin in Kansas abo about t. t June 15 Spring wheat has done very well welt In alt all l the maj major r spring sprin wheat regions including Illinois Iowa Nebraska the Dakotas and Minnesota th though gh in Iowa the condition n Is js still sUll rather unsatisfactory un satisfactory The crop is als also ls doing very wei over the Northwestern Northwestern North North- western wheat growing states Potatoe planting made good progress progress progress ress to the n northern limits of ot th the country and while some frost dam e darne e occurred in the Northwest arid shipping progressed in the gulf coast sections The nights hav have been somewhat too cool t for r 1 melons In the Southeastern states arid cranberries are delayed 1 In New England about two weeks from the cold nights I Strawberry shipping w was s reported as s far north as as Illinois and early peaches were going on the market from North Carolina Sugar beet Planting is nearly completed In igan while sugar cane showed Improvement Im Improvement improvement Im- Im provement over the lower Mississippi valley generally |