Continued Heavy Rains Damage Local Crops, Says H.C. MacNair, July 7, 1924

Crops Greatly Damaged by Continued Rains. . . Nothing Like It Has Been Seen in This Section Since “The Wet Year” of 1901—Most Crops Too Far Advanced to Plow Again. . . Grass Is Everywhere

By H.C. MacNair

Maxton, July 7—Incessant rains have in great measure ruined crops in this section of the state. In adjacent counties and in South Carolina border counties, in so far as reports come, the condition is widespread and applies to a large section, at least of the two states. Not since 1901, “the wet year,” has anything like it been seen.

There are no clean crops; grass is everywhere. Most crops are too far advanced now to be plowed again and the only thing that seems practical is to let all grow and take chances of harvesting some crop in tis manner, for to plow, even if possible again, would be to ruin the crop, so long neglected has it been. So continuous have been the rains, and so heavy, that for many weeks farmers have been unable to enter their fields to plow. On all farmers many acres have been abandoned; on most farms a large portion is hopelessly in the grass or under water or so wet that there is small prospect to ever cultivate again.

The boll weevil is late in appearing this year. Some think perhaps that the heavy rains have drowned them. We hope so. He is on the job now, however, and he is a diligent worker, doing with his might what his bill finds to do.

From the front page of the Robesonian, Monday, July 7, 1924