Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-13
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WHY BE GRouCHY?

/ be proved by their own testimony that
/ they killed Cummins and destroyed the
/ influence of his co-conspirators at Des
] Moines, and for these mighty deeds
| received the thanks of the nation
They insist the unhappy fractional strife
/ is over and that peace is again restor-
ed. Then why be SO grouchy about
| it? Why keep issuing columns OF
explanation daily that need explaining
| indefinitely? Why nurse their wrath
| against brethren. whom they insist are
| routed horse, foot and dragon? Why
not at least be as happy as the crush
| ed remnant of misguided republicans
who cheerfully accept this, situation and
are ready to sink all differences in the
great campaign for the maintenance
of republican principles and helpful
ness? Why, indeed, why?
WHAT WILL THE EFFECT BE?
Hampton Chronicle.l
Is another partial or complete corn
crop failure probable, ard what would
be the result of such? To the average
Iowan this question seems, at the very
least pessimistic, yet strangely enough
1T lies within the range of a posi-
bility and perhaps 81 probability.
Iowa corn for the past two years has
not been what an Iowa corn crop
should be, II has been from no crop at
all In the extreme wet places, to two
thirds crop on the very highest of dry
| land. Iowa farmers and those who re-
ly on the farm for their maintenance,
have luckily been in such a position
that these two years have not affected
them up to the present time. But now
the corn growers are III the midst of
what must be a good season. or
crisis is inevitable. Without a good
crop times will be hard, that is to say.
money will be scarce, and with 1t will
come the necessity of selling Iowa
land, and with that the reduction of
the market price of what have been
considered the most valuable farms In
tie west. 1t is plainly evident that the
lands OF Iowa can not hope to hold
their present value, unless they are ca
pablo of producing banner crop Mt
least every other year. This much is
sure as far as the value of the lard
is concerned. But how about the rent
ers on Iowa farms? How about these
men who have no farms to sell and pay
expenses? What will the result be TO
them If we should fail to have corn
crop this fall? Would 1t be repcti-
ton of the hard times we used to have,
or is the state so prosperous that an
other corn crop failure would not be
materially felt? The cool. cloudy and
even rainy weather of the past ton
days is breeding just such questions as
these in the minds Of those who are
depending upon the corn crop of Iowa
for the year 1904.
THE yAGARIES OF WEATHER. :.
fort Dodge Messenger
There are n good many people who
think they could handle the weather
with better results to the different To-
caiities whose prosperity depends on
geneft treatment than Is the case
now. 5 year, after two years of
wet weather, this part OF Iowa could
have gotten along very nicely with
but an occasional sprinkling. But two
heavy downpours that were like cloud
bursts and a succession OF cloudy
days have made farmers and business
men, who are quite as much dependent
on the prosperity of agriculture. feel
anxious ever since the middle of
spring. In addition TO this, a cold
backward spring set everything back
about two weeks
1t Is by no means settled that we
will not have a good average crop this
year, but we will not know what TO
count on until the frost has kept off
long enough for the late corn crop to
be ripened But while studying over
the situation some peculiar circum-
stances are found
In 1894, just ten years ago this part
of the country was visited by MEM
orable drouth. The ground had been
dried out by number of years in
which there was only light rainfall
and in that year the rain clouds for
sock this part of the country. The
sky took on brassy hue and day
after day flood of sunshine poured
on the dry corn fields until the leaves
first wrinkled and then turned yellow
in death. In those days people stood
out of doors when light haze Fro
claimed the approach of cloud and
everybody prayed audib!y and inaudi-
bly, for rain. In Fort Dodge the
cannon belonging to the city was put
out of business by the violence OF
commandment of the heavens from the
Round Prairie Hill ard still no rain
came. Five or six hundred dollars were
blown In on rain-maker with a
stock of mysterious chemicals after
the bill for gunpowder was paid.
How soothing to the parched earth
was the rain that came that fall---too
late. however, to do any good for the
crop.
Three years ago the dry period came
10 a close with the scorching hot year
Of 1901. In 1902 the rains started In
TO put back the moisture In the ground
In 1908 the rains continued, altho In an
lnevenly distributed way. In the east
and in Canada there was great
irouth, but in the Mississippi river the
principal crop was bull frogs on ac-
count of the moisture. This year, al
tho this part of Iowa Is getting more
rain than it needs, the western part OF
the state up around Sioux County, is
getting ideal weather. The Dakotas
are not getting much rain and the soil
there could stand great deal more
rain than Iowa can too. East OF this
narrow strip there has been too much
eain and in the eastern part of the
state around Dubuque they actually
need more In the city of Dubuque UP
TO ten days ago they had only had one
rain i'm four weeks and that billy
0nn1 deal OF rain