Thomasville, July 24—Growing crops or crops that would be growing under ordinary conditions are a failure in a wide area here, on account of drought. Comparatively no rain has fallen since crops were planted. Corn on good lands is tasseling from 2 to 3 feet tall or low, as one pleases to describe it, except some patches which may happen to be in moist bottoms. One farmer says he planted eight bushels of Irish potatoes and harvested the same number of bushels. Another says he planted potatoes as usual and failed to get a potato, and on land which usually makes plenty of that vegetable to do his Family. Many people are seeking other employment than the farm, hoping to get maintenance for their families, as everything on the farms has died, including beans and other vegetables in the gardens. Lots of good farmers are buying dry beans from the stores for food at home. Lawns in the city are dead and no hope of resuscitation.
Tobacco is about to mature in some fields with a leaf about 6 inches in length and not a good field of the weed anywhere in the community, so far as reports go.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, July 25, 1925
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