Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-16

STALKS ARE Earring PRoFUsELY
Several Frosts in August Of 1891 But
Warm September Matured the Crop
and Produced Large Yied-July and
August This Year Have Been Very
Similar.
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Special to Republican.
Des Moines. Aug. 16.-The famous
Iowa corn weather" has been exper-
fenced the past few days much to the
encouragement of those who watch the
crops with personal interest Crop
conditions have not been especially
good for some time-not that there was
any crop failure but that the corn es-
pecially has been in that condition
which made it entirely possible for
great damage to be done before the
crop is matured. The season
has been much like that of 1891, and
If it ends like that of thirteen years
ago, all VIII be well. In 1891, accord
crop service rs published, the reports
were uniformly discouraging all thru
July and August. July was very cold
and August was cold. showing a mean
of j degree below the average. In fact
the August. just past was the coolest of
any for twenty five years save that Of
1891, which was much colder. In 1891
the records show there were light frosts
on the 22d to the 25th and each inter-
vening day inclusive, also on the 2Sth
to 31st and each day inclusive. The
cold snap OF the last week of August
WAS reported to be the worst exper-
fenced in twenty years. The frost
blackened the corn all over the state
in
the damage was chiefly in the lowlands.
Then there had been hail in numerous
places. The corn was very immature,
as shown by the reports published at
the time. But change came about the
middle of September. For the week
erding September 10 Of that year the
report was that II was very hot, z
degrees above normal, with clear skies
and no rama perfect week for crop
ripening. The crop report for that
week broke forth with poetic senti-
ments and there was evidently great
rejoicing. All thru September the
weather was warm and the corn crop
came out splendidly, there being an av-
erage of thirty-eight bushels to the
acre.
II recall very well,e said Director
Sage yesterday, in speaking of the sea-
son of 1891 how Hiram Wheeler, who
had 1000 acres of corn, came to me
on the closing day of the fair and asked
me If / thought we were going to lose
the corn crop of Iowa entirely. I told
him that no man could tell 1t all de-
pended on the weather which followed.
Happily the weather turned just right
and great crop was made, but up to
the first of September the outlook was
bad. Now we do not need the extra
ordinary conditions of September of
that year to ripen the crop this year.
II we get normal conditions we will
have a crop. The acreage is large but
the stand is light. have great faith
this year will make up in large measure
for the deficiency in number OF stocks.
/ never saw corn with more ears on
1t to the stalk, and the tassels and
silks are simply perfect. There has
been enough moisture in the atmos-
phere to develop these just right and
the corn is in the right condition for
perfect ears. All we need Is normal
conditions for good crop. The recent
weather is encouraging"
The fourteenth volume OF the Iowa
Survey has been printed,
and the index completed, and 1t is now
in the hands of the binder. The VOL
ume is one OF the most eminently prac-
tical that has ever been made 1t Is
tha ola
OF the state, and it represents largely
the work of Prof. S. w. Boyer. OF the
state college for the past eight years.
In this work he was assisted by Ira
A. Williams, one of the special assist
ants in the geological survey. The
volume gives complete story OF the
clay deposits, and all about the con-
stituents OF the various ciays and ex-
tent of the beds, and the processes or
of various products. II
ia profusely illustrated and with maps
and diagrams. The book has 6bo
nages. The survey is now ready t.
begin on the story of the coal deposit,
of the state. Prof. T. r. Savage. who
has been at work on the last report.
has now gone out to take up field work
in Fayette county.
Chairman Morrissey, of the demo-
cratic state committee, Will call to-
gether the candidates on the state
ticket and chairlnen of the county COM
mittees and others OF the party in this
city some time this month for gem
eral conference on the work of the
campaign in Iowa. There will be no
conferences of the republican candl-
dates and the committee.
OF those who took the examination
the past two months for state certifi-
Gates, about so in all. only about half
were successful. The examinations
are declared to have been not difficult
but the persons presenting themselves
for examination were not qualified.
The Des Moines union of machinists
sent Arthur e. Holder and wife, az