Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-22
QUE wnArHHa PROPHET.
John Dusty's Forecast for six MohthR-
Warning Advice 70 the Farmers
Crop and Neighborheod
Notes.


To the Tobacco Leaf-Chronlcle.l
In January made my first obser-
vstions of the weather; later on my
predictions as to rain during the
year. Those of your readers who
have noticed know just how near
my predictions have come true. /
know nothing of the scientific calcu-
lations of our astronomers, or of the
astronomical changes of Venus,
Jupiter, Mars or Vulcan, or of the
Jovian Period. My predictions are
made solely from past observations,
which any one who will watch and
note the weather for twenty years
can make with as much certainty as
Mr.. Hicks, Virgins or any Others of
our so-called weather prophets as to
what the weather will be.
now make you my last prediction
for the year and retire forever from
your columns as predictor of what
the year will bring forth. Every
indication now points to the hardest
winter we have had for years,
commencing il the latter part
of November and increasing
in severity as it advances.
December, January and a part Of
February will be unusually severe
for this latitude.
The hot period will have exhaust
ed itself by the last days of this
month and we will have cooler
weather from then on. If we escape
frost from 18th to 22nd September
we will not have a killing frost be
fore October 1st to 9Th. We advise
our farmer friends to make all
necessary provisions for the comfort
of both stock and man; get your UNI
used ice houses in order, good sheds
for cattle, sheep and hogs, large
wood piles and well filled coal
houses-for before the winter has
gone they will be exhausted. These
predictions, like my'others, are given
free gratis and for just what they
are worth draw up your own con
illusions and govern yourselfaccor-
dinghy.
Wheat threshing is finished; will
have hardly one-third of crop
which will make an average of a
number 3 in grade.
Tobacco is not doing as well as it
ought; it is small and growing
very slow with about 20 per
cent. of the ground missing.
The tobacco crop, like the wheat,
will fall below an average crop.
There is more outcome in it than
anything that grows out of the
ground and it may turn out yet an
extra crop.
The corn crop, like all the rest of
our crops in this section, is needing
rain badly. Where it has been well
worked it looks well. / have seen
some fields that would be fine for
any year, while Others are poor and
will make poor yield, if it rains
every other day till frost. Fallow-
ing wheat land is now in order, but
owing to the dry, hot weather but
little is being done at it. There is
more hay in the country than ever
before since it was a county. Hogs
are plentiful, sheep scarce. We are
greatly in our own light for not hav-
ing more sheep on every farm in the
county; they pay next best to the
hog.
We are having but little sickness
a few cases of measles, with now and
then a case of fever. VIM. Word,
who worked with Luckett & Co., is
quite sick with typhoid fever upI
near Douglass station, at his broth.
er's, Geo. Word.
Tom Whitfield is six inches taller,
weighs ton and is as happy as a
negro in an empty sugar hogshead-
a 10-pound boy. Send back the emu
merator. - Warner Campbell, OF
Hopkinsville, is visiting j. M. An
derson this week. Ed. Dabney |
has been quits sick for several days |
past.
We are all following for Buchan-
an now. Yours,
JOHN DUSTY.
July II, 1890.