The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-09-18
WARM WAVE EXPECTED.
Foster Predicts a Variety of Weather
for the Month.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Washington, D. c., Sept. 1.-THE last
bulletin gave forecast of disturbance
to cross continent Sept. IA to 18th, warm
wave Sept. ID to II, cool wave Sept. 20.
Next disturbance will reach the Pa
cific coast about Sept. Is, cross west OF
the Rockies by the close of Sept. 10, great
central valleys Sept. 20 to %, eastern
states Sept. %.
Warm wave will cross west of the
Rickies about Sept. Is, great central
valleys Sept. 20, eastern states Sept. %
| Cool wave will cross west of Rockies
about Sept. 81, great central valleys.
Sept. 3d. eastern states Sept. 25.
This disturbance will begin with a
period of very high and end with a
period of very low temperatures. 1t will
be inaugurated with a hot wave, ended
with cold wave, will bring a series of
very severe storms including ternadoes
in our great central valleys, tropical
storms on the gulf and Atlantic coasts,
killing frosts in the great corn belt of the
northern states, great storms all around
the earth, volcanic eruptions and earth
quake disturbances in countries subject
to them.
Storms do not visit all sections at the
same time, most places are always miss
ed by them, but until our government
places our old weather records and all
tropical storm records in better condition
we cannot definitely locate these danger
Gus storms. 1t is a matter of great i'm
portance to the people, however, to know
when in order that they may take no
unnecessary risk.
From Sept. 10 to % the storms every
where will be at their greatest. This does
not mean that they will begin on those
days. Hurricanes often cover period of
ten to fifteen days, transcontinental
storms from three to five days on the
continent, as long before on the north
Pacific; altogether each storm may con-
tinue from three to fifteen days while it
moves eastward.
Storms begin to show increased energy
on August 81 as predicted particularly
interfering to some extent with the great
boat race on the Atlantic coast.
Sowing winter wheat is now in order
and the fly should be kept in mind. Early
sowing is favorable to increased damage
by fly and there are other reasons why
wheat should be sown late. By this [ do
not mean to advise you about next
years crop. If you want to know about
that write me. Conditions are so vari-
Gus that one advice will not fit all Sec
tions.
1t has been noticed by all wheat pro-
ducers that good and bad crops run in
irregular periods? That is caused by
seasonal weather. Every year has cold,
wet, dry, hot, periods, covering several
weeks and the good and bad crops depend
on the month in which these
extremes occur. Hot and dry in
July and August is bad for corn,
much freeze and thaw during the winter
bad on wheat; drought in April and May
bad on grass and oats.
BY knowing the weather conditions
of these seasons in advance we may
know what and when to plant and sow.
When supply of product is short as
will probably continue to be the case
with corn till larger crop comes than
will be produced this wear, it is impor-
tant to know about crop weather con-
ditions of next year.