OFFICIAL CROP REPORT.

New York, 1895

Widespread Injury Done by the Cold Weather.

WASHINGTON, May 21 — The weekly telegraphic crop bulletin of the agricultural department says:

The exceptionally cool weather of the past week has been very unfavorable for most crops, and widespread injury has been done by frosts, which have been general throughout the northern and central portions of the country and as far south as the northern portions of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.

Corn has suffered seriously; much replanting will be necessary. Cotton has also suffered much, a part of the crop in the Carolinas and Georgia needing to be replanted.

Special telegrams by states, based upon more than ten thousand special reports, are as follows:

New England — Frosts killed all crops above ground; all new growth on grapes frozen; strawberries badly injured; apples a little damaged; peaches injured very little.

New York — Damage greatest in southwestern counties; central counties alone escaped serious injury; loss undoubtedly several millions in grapes and small fruits; otherwise crops generally fine, but retarded.

New Jersey — Killing frost disastrous to tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, melons, corn, and sweet potatoes; replanting commenced.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 5.