Crops have been hit by the late spring and it is estimated that they fare from five to six weeks behind those of last year. Wheat is poor in most places. The stand is bad and stalks are not well developed. Beans are not developing as they should. The farmers are commencing in earnest now to whip the fields into shape, but financing of fertilizer will be more difficult than last year. So little was repaid last year that banks and land owners will slow to lend much more. When rents and Joans go unpaid the situation becomes very difficult, Serious work has gone into the effort to eradicate worms that destroyed so much of the rice last year. These worms bore the stalks and then live in the roots during the winter, Whole sections have pulled up and burned roots and stalks. Thus far this has seemed to be the only. way in which to handle this pest.
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