Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-10-01

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early corn matured.
Shelby (Harlan) Corn is drying rapidly
and much of 1t 10 now we'll matured, but
not all entirely ripe in any field; the good
weather of the last two weeks has been
very beneficial; not as many cattle being
put on feed as this time last year.
Central District.
Webster TIT. Dodge)-Six days Of fine
weather have done much for corn; early
planted about all safe, and much is in
shock; with ten days OF fine weather there
will be 10 per cent of an average crop of
corn.
Calhoun (AInnson)-Ten days of bright
sunshine has made wonderful Improvement
In the corn crop; prospect is four times
better than it was three weeks ago.
Boone (Ogden)--A fine week for late corn.
and good for cutting late hay; Des Mofhes
river high for time of year.
Story (Nevada)-Corn cutting in progress
clover hulling begun with good yield of
seed: no damage by frost yet; fine weather
for ripening corn.
Poweshiek (GrinnelD-Light frost two
mornings but no killing as vet; blowing
seldom more advanced at this time Of year;
threshing we'll inland. (Hartwick)-Co
ripening up very well and most of it is
completed; oats making an average of
about twenty-eight bushels.
Jasper (Newton) %: bright sun
shine and warm south winds have brought
80 per cent of corn over the danger line
tMonroel-Corn maturing rapidly: five and
one-half days of sunshine and wind.
East Central District.
Dubuque (Dubuque)-Ran 90; mean TEN
| perature 63 degrees.
Delaware Delaware)-Rain 10; favorable
week for work and maturing corn; large
amount of corn is being cut; but little dam
age by frost Sept. "a
| Blackhawk (Waterloo) Rain .O4: corn
planted for foLler.
| Jones (Olin)--A fine week for ripening
corn and harvesting potatoes: the potato
crop is good: all early planted corn ripe,
and the late on low lands injured by FROST
highland corn fine crop; pastures excel
| lent.
| Clinton (Clintono-- Rain go; mean temper
| ature 5S degrees: good weather for corn
| and other unmatured crops: Mississippi
river unusually high for the season.
| Scott Davenport Rain Al; mean tenn
perature 62.5 degrees.
| Muscatine (Fruitland)-Aboht half the
| corn in shock: balance past danger from
| frost: corn better than average crop: far
mers very busy seeding rye; potato crop a
| failure.
Iowa (Amana)-some fine warm days,
good for corn; light frost Sept. "a, but no
| damage
| Southeast District.
| Washington (Ainsworth)-Corn maturing
very rapidly. and most of the early planted
| now safe, and quality much better than
| had been expected.
Louisa (Wapello)-Rain 90 Sept. %;
good week for corn and fall seeding; no
frost to hurt anything.
Lee tKeokuk)- Rain Sept IS, ST; daily
temperature normal: continuous sunshine
until Saturday benefited the latest planted
| corn. and one-half is now safe; fall work
well advanced.
Van Buren, (Stockport)-Our second frost
| Sept. "a did no harm; sowing fall grain in
| progress. (AIiltonlA fine week for corn
and large part of it safe; some very fine
fields of corn. GPittsburg)-Early corn be-
| ing cut: one more week of good weather
will put most of late corn beyond danger.
South Central District.
4 Madison (Earlham)-Corn drying up rap
| idly, and all that will amount to anything
| Is now safe: frost has done no damage vet.
AIahaska (Oskaloosa) Weather favorable
for ripening corn. and bulk of the crop is
now safe from frost.
Marion pela)-SiS days of drying wealth
err ripened corn nicely; ten days more Will
put all early corn on safe ground.
! Madison OWinterset)-Warm days and
high winds have dried the corn rapidly:
}early corn, except occasional ears, now
! safe.
Union (Afton)-Early corn safe; late corn
j Will be safe in week; pastures never bet
/ ter; clear all the week except Sept. 20
| (Creston)-Corn is doing well as could be
expected under the circumstances. with
late. wet spring at one end and early frost
at the other end of We season.
Lucas (Chariton)-Co matured rapidly;
no injury from frost vet.
~ m IL 30 foll won fI,nr,
ripened corn very fast, and ten days more
of good weather will make all corn safe
and give good fall and winter pasture.
| Wayne (Seymour)A week of bright sun
shine and early corn is safe from freeze;
late corn has ripened rapidly and will soon
get out of the. way of frost; millet crop
light.
/ RInggold Nft Ayr)-Rain 10; good
week for ripening corn; light frost Sunday
morning, following light rain.
4 Warren Undanola)-Three-fo urths of the
corn safe; no damage from frost of Sept.
81; apple crop light.
4 Southeast District.
Pottawattamie Council Bluffs)-A good
week for ripening corn; as vet no frost to
harm any field crops; grape crop better
than expected.
Mills Emerson-R ainless week; corn ma
king good progress: 80 per cent safe from
I,
weather and balance needs n month
Montgomery (Red oak)-A week of sun
shine with light frost on Sept. "a yege-
tation still green; very large per cent
of corn is now past the danger line: fall
wheat being sown: fruit of better quality
than usual: potatoes very poor.
Adams (Corning)- Best week of season;
more than 80 per cent of corn crop out OF
the way Of frost; ten days more will put
balance out of danger; about one-thlrd OF
the country will have no corn on account
of the hailstorm July 26.
Taylor (Bedford)- Light frost but no dam
age to corn; most Of the corn is out of the
way, and some has been cut.
Page (Clarinda)-About all the corn that
can mature is out of the way of frost
: (Shenandoah)--No damage by light frost
. corn is practically made.
/ Omaha, Neb.Rain oil; daily excess OF
temperature degrees.