Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Fifty-Third Year - Number 60
Marlin, Texas, Monday, May 18, 1953

CO. AGENT MARSHALL REPORTS
ON CROP DAMAGE AND OUTLOOK

       County agent R. P. Marshall said Monday that this is the heaviest rainfall to be experienced in Falls county in several years and erosion damage was worse than if some periods of good rainfall had been obtained along at seasonal intervals.
       The cotton situation will depend of the weather conditions, if it remains wet, a lot will die.  If it clears up some of the cotton will continue to grow and be all right.  He said that about 60 percent of the total cotton acreage in the county will have to be planted meaning that also within that figure some had not been planted up to the time of last week's heavy rainfall.  The cotton fields have been washed and flattened throughout the county and much of the acreage has been under water from the flash flood conditions.
       The corn has been greatly helped by the rainfall and will continue to make progress except in places where the hail damage has been so severe that growing corn will not recover from that injury.  Some of the hail damaged corn will recover to the extent that it will produce corn.
       Among other feed crops, the grain sorghums have been greatly benefitted.  Small grains, oats and like crops have been badly damaged by the hail, wind and rain, and caused a lot of oats to go down and will be lost.
       Mr. Marshall said that the hail damage that happened to tomato acreage was very severe in spotted sections.
       In other places where the hail damage that happened to tomato acreage was very severe in spooted sections.
       In other places where the hail damage did not occur he has already noticed that wilt started to show up on Sunday and unless weather conditions are such that will permit the field soil to be stirred some, this damage to the tomato crop from wilt may be more severe.
       Pasture acreage have been greatly aided except in creek bottoms where the overflow water has remained long  enough to kill some vegetation.

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