The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-06-19
wEATHER BuREAu.
weather Crop Bulletin No 10. of the
Oregon State Weather Service for
Eastern Oregon.

WeSCler-A lew tA&ut ePFfH 2A0S -
rainfall, not enough to lay the dust, on
the 10Th and 18th. Tie temperature
has been cool; frosts have occurred .ex-
cept in the immediate Columbia river
valley. South of this valley, extending
eastward through eastern Idaho, frosts
and ice occurred the morning of the
i4th and 18th. The foot hills and the
Blue mountains hada coating Of snow
the morning of the 18th. The may
imun temperature for the week ranrad
from "a to "a deg. in the Columbia river
valley, and from so to "a al, In the
'1'H '' 'n'n --nun ranged from IS To-
81 deg. in the valley, and from % to 4s
deg. t6 The south. This temperature of
below the freezing point on Friday and
Saturday night is one Of the lowest on
record for this season of the year. The
winds have been from the north to west,
and more brisk in fore than is usual.
! Crops-While the prospects for crops,
hay, cereal and fruit, were never more
promising in the western portion of the
state, the reverse conditions prevail to
from the correspondents indicate very
poor outlook. Fall-sown or summer-fol-
lowed wheat is promising. and even un-
der the adverse condition of dry cool
period it will give average yield. Spring
sown grain may make hay in some sec
tions, though it, like volunteer wheat,
will hardly be worth the cutting for hay (;
/ 1. Il fofI ~
spring and volunteer grain. A cores
pondent from Umatilla county writes
s'It is sure that this county will not
have one-half the number of bushels oi
wheat that she produced last year." A
correspondent from Morrow county
writes: ''With good rain within two
weeks we will have fair yield of fall
sown summer-fallowed grain; volunteer
and spring-sown are gone entirely"
Similar reports come from Gillian, Sher.
man, Wasco and Baker counties; in
Union and Wallowa counties the con.
ditions are somewhat improved, though
in portions of the Grande Ronde valley
the prospects are not so encouraging as
they might be. The correspondent a
Cove, Union county, reports: "Upor
: the whole, rather a discouraging out
: look"
Flowing has been suspended, due tt
the ground being SO dry, and larg'
: amount of stubble ground remains un
: plowed. The grasshoppers have dom
and are yet doing damage to vegetation
in Morrow, Gillian, Sherman and Was
= co counties; some farmers are cutting
their hay before they otherwise woul'
!, do go, SO as to prevent its being eaten b.
the grasshoppers. So that between tn
dry weather and the grasshoppers som
farmers are having hard time of it
: and as one writes: ''It begins to lool
: like destitution.''
: In the Columbia river valley, il
Union and Wallowa counties, the trui
J crop continues promising. Straw
berries are about over and cherries ar
ripe. To the south of the Blue mount
aims fruit and berries are not so promis
ing; the frosts injured them, and tn
yield will be light. The hay crop vii
be good in some locations, but will b
'e poor in others. From Grant county
I. ICOEISSpOuu6ub WI1JSS. TOEdiA CEOp6 AT
- 30 backward and the land so dry tha
:. unless we have copious rains within
. short time they will be a failure. Th
hay meadows are not going to turn O
" anything like the normal crop. Grass
= hoppers. 1 fear, are going to clear th
country; they have already destroye
gardens, and will most likely haryei
- our second crop of alfalfa; they took m
- second crop last year"
The stock is being driven to ii
J, mountains for their summer pasturagt
- the range grass ID only fair, not is goc
as last year.
- The climatic conditions are such,
: present, that no general or copious rail-
! may be expected during the next wee
- but warmer weather will most like
prevail. Moderate temperature, wit
good rains, would yet materially il
81 prove conditions Throughout Eastel
= Oregon.
be A subscription list was circulated ye
or terday among our business men ior Il
Is- lerecting of a monument to those vi