Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-27 | Page 9 | Weather Bad for Farm Work

WEATHER BAD EOlFilll Conditions Continue Unfavor-able Unfavor-able for Development of Hj Vegetation I, By J. Cecil Alter. State Meteorologist. The weather continues unfavorable for the development of vegetation and for farm work in all the central and northern states, and in most of the southern states, according to the Nation Na-tion Weekly Weather nnd Crop Bulletin, Bulle-tin, by the United States Weather Bureau. It was too cold, except in the southwest, south-west, and in this latter region while It was quite warm, a temperature of 100 degrees being reported at Snn An-P An-P tonio, Texas, there was a decided lack of moisture. Over the greater part of the country the soil continues too wet to work and too cold for the proper germination of seed, and the season is thus from two to three weeks behind the average. Corn germinated very poorly and made very slow growth whero. planted in the southern states, due to the cold, in ,the central and eastern portions! and to lack- of moisture toward the west. Cotton planting generally is making slow progress. Winter wheat made slow advance in ,A. , the Ohio valley districts, the progress 3,1. being especially disappointing in Ohio, , ' whero considerable wheat land will be sown to oats. Wheat made some im-, provement in Kentucky and most of. Tennessee, and good progress in Ar-j 4 in eastern Kansas, though high winds j 1 have damaged it in western Kansas, ' I Oklahoma, and eastern New Mexico. ! ' Wheat continues mostly in good con- : dition in the plains district north of . 1 Kansas; but the early spring freeze shows more harm than was expected, v, r In the upper Mississippi valley. How-ffC' How-ffC' i.;- ever, it is making improvement, in tfs'fz this section, and progressing satisfac- I torily in the middle Atlantic states. 4 . The wheat needs warmer weather in ; the far northwestern states. Little spring wheat seeding has r ' , been accomplished except in Iowa, ow ing to unfayorable weather in the fields. Spring oats seeding was also greatly hindered, except in the middle ! , Atlantic coast states, and some Apala- : chian mountain districts. Frost and ' I cold weather weather have hindered1 the advancement of the potato cropi i . where planted, as well as beans andi I other truck, f I , There was also some damage to I ' fruit locally, but it appears that a good crop remains on the trees in the main, producing areas of the United States.1 - The buds are developing slowly inj the northern and northwestern states.'