Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-21
o,,e Predictions as to the
Cotton Crop Were Right.
Will NOT EXCEED LAST YEARS
rally Gathering Makes the Crop APP
'he =. Larger Than 1T is-Sext Year
Wi be Famous as pr'uth
Year With Hot Summer.

Northern plA - 49,
Lai45 states and in the most elevated
L4.'i- r.Toes we seldom have real win
2 -N - a., The middle of December, while
'ef y-.-5sr.gf November is quite early for
~ .--,-[ leather in the great valleys along
W. mn dee. Of north latitude.
;ls 7-;--fsj that winter weather would
.+a northern mountains early II
ecu 80 and that it would gradually spread
~. ALLEYS earlier than usual. Care
70 10. -.,.s--snsr editors have commented on
= as 10 make the impression that
t..s - winter 10 begin all over the coun-
s.,. gr,-Der. The middle of November
7! ID h.. r,.rv. and November "a, unusually,
"l-.' s.r real winter il the middle lat /
eA.s ~, ,he United States, and there is
~. ,img after these dates for a long hard
-...I..f The cotton planters and dealers,
Ism. regarded my prediction that the
rr.o this year would not exceed that
~. scar is q mistake, but they now see
.... 1rgs right. Early frosts, extremes
80. .r. excessive rains and excessive
-.,..- have each taken a hand IL cutting
..r what III one time promised to be the
,.-,s,, Ct. p ever grown, and now the.crop
: ported is being less than that OF last
ys-r o,,.l,. ,,-intar and -ba
>
-.,.r being dry and favorable for pick
.., IN. u,aaters have made unusual speed
.-7 .,,ts7iug their cotton, and this has
.-.i--. m. cotton so rapidly into the mar
~. TIA, Ngw York and English Specula-
- bIga rrade use of IL to depress the
49,. claiming that the crop was the lar
r...r over grown. Cotton picking is about
Srr.- and there is a great and sudden fall
tr.,09 .r tLn number of bales taken to mar
b., After .riticisiug my predictions as 10
,.7-rrs ,aa- would surely result to the
....-nr. crop the dealers and planters now
Sec tG.. vas right.
t.. cAteut the same is true of the
OH rrp. Farmers anticipated an early
winter and rushed the gathering, which
mics TIE crop appear larger than II IS,
aud suaauat.rs are using this to depress
narr.e.s. At this time nearly all the corn
fsrr.bbat gaa the cotton ginned fully four
ga.ss earlier than usual. The crops are
r..l bat not $50 great as represented.
Ila- prrimiuarIes open the way for a
7.fy important lOug-range forecast, and l
MIX. il this carly in order that planters,
...a,s and local dealers may have the ad
r..,aerof H. 4 serious drouth viii affect
.. ...,, in The cotton states and the south
L-fot the corn belt next year. This drouth
3, not BE- general over the drouth districts
uU'!0ura above, but will occur in very
,l-ee slu.s along and south of the 40th deg.
ofr6fta latitude. The same influences that
caused the Grouth this fall will be much
greater during the crop-growing season
ltA, gca~ The storm centerS Will cross
t-s continent far to the north, as they have
fr rhrc months past, and this Invariably
tl4ses dr0uth and very hot weather south
o. Ife storm tracks. The heaviest rains
ae., year viii occur in the highlands and
g..gtlh 4-'h deg. Of north latitude.
Those Who were reading my weather
..'a.s IN 1870 will remember that [ pre-
#'e5 good crops for the United States for
,.i, except il the extreme north and the
extreme southwest Next summer will be
Is excessively warm as the past spring and
nmar, prior 10 August, were excessively
Ny last letter gave forecasts of the storm
wave due % cross the continent from 18th to
-,s, and the next will leave the Pacific
cyas, about The 22nd, cross the great central
valleys from ord TO 18th, and reach the
Atlantic coast about the Both. This storm
y. be- AZ IT'S greatest force on the Atlantic
COAST about the Goth and will be of much
T. re Importance in the Eastern than in the
Western states. Disagreeable, cold weather
w.. follow this disturbance, and severe
-..s, possibly a blizzard. The blizzard
ta"s Tie storm center and is usually
.al.i- .Ie storm center one or two days.
.aa w'Etry weather will be more severe
Rowing the next disturbance.
t--tg ur5uthS, such rs occurred during
HIS ial Inc effects OF storm waves are not
noticeable as when the rain or snow sea-
5'l comes .n, and while the storms are rum
lfE i-l the north, some do not under
salt the utility of my forecasts. But the
Safm CENTER although u thousand miles
away, is s.'I the key to the weather, and
'-e temperature, direction of the wind and
NE i'yca change as the storm moves east
Fa-- during Gr0uth, and the storm waves
-''a acry's the continent Just as regularly
--'t.s orouth rs at any other time.
SCIENCE NOTES.
Na'.aFl. smallpox. SunStroke, the grip,
!a-T fever djptheria and other epidemic
diseases Affecting man; hog cholera. pink
gre -eNas fever and other diseases affect
'z l-a lower animals, are periodic. caused
-1i condition of our atmosphere,
d, about oy sudden increase of cleo
a.. H., 8. caused by the position of the plan
e., 'a'. .er and Saturn.
We. a"- undertake TO discuss all these
=. -+.-s.S L2r all The epidemic positions OF
t"o great planets. Saturn occupies
"a %. ,..s0 positions in 29ls years, three of
-- sl. -1s ' traced in historical StatiS-
as A... Jupiter occupies four of these po-
~ ID us Years, two of which cause
~ Eal' C1.Gemics.
.- '.-. l'. 'ry % establish one of these
y '.'.N aa5-S ~ this time and this will
r- field Of thought for our
.- Students
-.. it"r crosses the suns equator
81. .'ii.nr IS going toward perhelion,
-. ea..amicS occur, and their pc
- .'-F-y Twelve years apart. Mid
- these, Jupiter crosses the
n. .-.. Is The former is going toward
A.. a-H following this event the lesser
.t-r, which also have periods of
~ 1881 years.
:. ' .-- lie records of all nations we find
81 ...- -a.-emics have occurred in the
81. ears: 1875, 1901, 1907, 1913,
u, ~. !, 1876, 1912, lS4S, 1854, 1860,
II. -''', l>>3 and lSS9, and these are
on. winch Jupiter passed the suns
II lie Gates given are the begin
: NE eIaem!cS which usually con-
~ '.- one b three years.
r.. '.-'St cp'demics occur at about
rs apart, and that is the period
q ''..'or and Saturn occupy rela-
I'm. 7 r"-g positions, as in that time
an --Asss exactly five revolutions
s,--,... Sun and Saturn exactly two
1s-i,5- .-e basis we may calculate the
.s., W. o.. eNloomics that affect man and
9Th Use diseases are caused by mi
e. "..'2 are greatly increased in num-
s'--s,e e, increase of electricity in four
lsa-f Electricity is the life princi-
III. - D i IS rightly understood by
90, s---.-s they viii have better sue
gro. 2Elng life. W. T. FOSTER.
Mpc