Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1892-02-12
WEATHER FORECAST.
Prospective Nature OF Crop-Producin
Season OF 1892.

Season Of lS1S.
Richard Mansill, q noted scientist,
who has for some Years made
speciality of weather forecasts" and
who made tho most correct forecast
Tor 1891, IN his almanac for 1892,
has the following to say:
We are looking for q winter rather
on the side Of mildness again then on
the other extreme, although We expect
January to be a cold, stormy, wlntry
mouth, with temperature as low or
lower than the mean OF the season,
While February will be u pleasanter
month than January, but it will be
on the side OF wintry like period,
March will bring a mild (sprinR) though
a stormy term, with heavy rains and
floods IN the western states and rivers.
1892 will be the first wet season, or
year, out OF group probably ranging
from five to seven years. April will
be warm or mild month, with unusual
numbers OF severe rain storms. May
will be q month something like April,
only warming up with the advance of
the season. June will be q warm,
pleasant month and not quite as
stormy or rainy as the previous three
months. March, April and May. July
will be a summer month, with g. full
complement OF severe storms. August
will be much like July IN temperature,
but somewhat stormy. September
will be a more moderate month. but
somewhat stormy. October and
November will be mild and somewhat
pleasant months for their season.
The weather will begin to grow cold
and wlntry after the middle of
December.
Now, from the above outlines of the
prospect of the temperature and rain
for the whole year and crop seasons,
which points out tolerable early
spring, though as being somewhat
rainy or wet (but warm), therefore
points oat that the earliest oppor-
tunities should be taken to SOW cereals
in all places. and plant Indian corn IN
the corn belt Corn should be tolar-
able fair crop again with care in 1892
in the corn belt, but it will be some.
what tedious to cultivate and keep
clean in low lands. In fact, if the
rains occur as general as they appear
to be pointed out by the positions OF
the other planets to that of our earth
it will be somewhat generally tedious
to keep corn clean in 1892, while corn;
oats and rye will be the best crops to
plant. There should be but very lit
tie spring wheat sowed in the central
corn belt in 1892, as the early warm
months and rains are likely to blight
it by rust and shriveling.
We take the privilege here Of saying
that there never has been any system
of fol- ecasting the crop seasons before,
that has done any such reliable or
valuable work as we have been doing
for quite pumber OF years-by way
of forecasting the prospective nature
OF the future or next coming crop
seasons, land euided) by the posi-
tions of the planets. which positions
indicate Ito us) the probable nature
OF the temperature OF the different
seasons upon the different parts OF
the globe, and which enable us to
point out the effects upon the crops,
in the various parts of the earth, dur
ing the different periods of the crop
seasons, and the effects upon the var
ious kinds OF crops, etc.
Now, as we advised that small
grain in the corn belt would likely do
we'll in 1891, on account OF the cool
(summer) July which we were likely
to pass through, 80 we advised the
early planting of Indian corn to en-.
able it to pass through this same cool
July lin 1871. 1t Is known that the
corn was several weeks late, but we
said the weather would improve in
August, which it did, but the corn
needed the long spell OF fine warm
weather which we received during Sep
tember, and which matured and
ripened the corn in fine order, and by
this giving US generally good crops in
small grain, Indian corn and other
vegetable products. While in Great
Britain and other parts Of Europe
the crops grew slowly, as We said they
would-and during the latter part oI
August and parts of September, as We
said it would bet was tedious to
save what grain bad grown-as much
OF it was damaged and ruined by
severe rains and storms about har.
vest time-as we said there would be-
and in parts Of Europe they are
threatened with severe famine from
these causes.
Now we do not wish to be az
alarmist, but We do say and expect
these conditions to be reversed tC
some extent next year 1892, or w
expect Europe to have from fair tc
r good crops generally in 1892 from tht
effects of tolerably fair to gooC
weather, while we anticipate some
tediousness in raising and saving oul
crops, over the great northwestern
states, in 1892, from cause OF rather
bad weather-not cool weather, hui
rather from changeable or somewhat