DESTROYED CROPS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 803, 28 April 1910, Page 7

DESTROYED CROPS.

COTTON AND FRUIT.

BLANKETED TREES.

ARTIFICIAL FLOODS TO WARD OFF FROST.

Dr Tcleeraoh-PreSß Association—CopjrlgUi New York, April 26.

■ Router's correspondent .at - Atlanta, the capital, city of Georgia, says the destruction caused' ; by . frost in the cotton . belt; is . the most disastrous setback cotton-growing has sustained since the Civil Wai. ' Thb cotton-seed oil mills have; been requested: not to crush until the farmers have been supplied with seed for.replanting, and it :is doubtful whether there' will be sufficient seed for half the area. , (The losses, of fruit and vegetables in the "United States are estimated at six billion pounds; . sterling. . Wheat and oats in the' West also suffered. ' ' Orchards and gardens in the Mississippi Valley ~ a bivouacked army, owing to wood; coal, and straw fires being kept ': burning throughout 'the night. Blankets and quilts were used in thousands of cases to protect the blossoming trees. : . Snow saved the lowa strawberry beds, and the. cranberry crops in the marshes were saved by. artificially flooding them. ,

COTTON FORCERIES. LIA'ERPOOL'S LOSS, £1,000,000. London, April 27. . Tlie "Daily Mail's" New York correspondent states that Liverpool's losses by the cotton forgeries are estimated at a million pounds sterling.. " .