Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-01

time; meadows heavy and will make
two tons an acre; oats rank.
Wright (Dows>-Rain 1.3s; corn is
making good growth; cultivation Is
being pushed now.
Humboldt (Humboldt)- Rain ,36;
corn and small grain look well, though
there was low temperature during the
week
Pochahontas (Plover)-Rain 1922;
small grain good; late oats heading.
Pocahontas (Pocahontas)-Rai .65;
drive through the country showed
varied conditions of crops; all small
grains looks good; corn varies from
to 80 inches high; crop better than
last year; best stand of corn near this
city, as result of good seed corn talk.
Northwest District.
Osceola (Sibley)-Rain 100; corn
plowed twice and some of 1T is knee
high; heavy crop of grass; apples fall
Sioux (orange city)-Rained all
night the 2sd; small grain growing
rank; CEN growing slowly and being
cultivated second time; nearly cold
enough for frost two mornings.
Sioux (Alton)-Rain 2.67; corn
fields tested showed average of 203
stalks per 100 hills; oats heading out.
West Central District,
Ida Gda Grove)-Temperature be-
low normal; all crops doing fairly
WELL but need rain.
Woodbury. (Sioux City)-Rain, 20;
mean temperature Sc, or degrees be-
low normal; good progress In corn
cultivation and crop is doing well in
spite of cool weather.
Monona (Onawa)-Rain IA; fine
week for cultivating corn and the crop
is looking fine, though mostly small.
Carroll (CarrolD-A fair week and
corn is doing finely; mean temperature
67.5.
Audubon (Audubon)-A few light
showers; corn about average height
and cleaner than usual; some haying
being done.
Harrison (Dunlap)-An ideal week
for corn and in fact, for all crops;
haying begun and crop heavy. do-
gan)-Rain 20; corn growing finely,
but not a good stand.
Central District.
Hardin Gowa Falls)-Rain .s5: corn
making excellent progress; barley and
early oats beginning to head; clover
about ready to cut
planted early has been plowed third
time; most farmers blowing second
time.
Calhoun Manson)-Favorable week
for farm work and all crops; corn I'M
even in height ;early oats headed out
Boone (Woodward)-Corn and small
grain uneven on fiat land; corn gener-
ally clean, but rather below normal
height.
Story (Ames)-Good corn weather;
many fields cultivated twice; wet spots
small and grassy; second growth of
alfalfa coming on beautifully; winter
rye nearly ripe. (Nevada)-Five good
days for field work and corn is fairly
clean; large acreage on lowlands prac-
tically ruined; early oats headed and
show much smut.
making rapid growth and late fields
are catching up: clean and weel titled;
cherry crop better than expected.
(Hartwick)-Cornd doing very well, but
variable in size; clover haylng in pro-
gress, with very heavy yield; small
grain short in straw.
Jasper (Newton)-Rain rs: week IA
vorable for growth and cultivation of
crops, and all in fair condition. (Mon-
roe)-Earliest corn being plowed last
time; clover hay heavy.
Polk (Des Moines)-Rain 81; mean
temperature 10; good progress of all
crops, though slightly cooler than nor
NAL.
East Central District.
Dubuque (Dubuque)-Rain 80; tenn
perature 50 degrees.
Delaware Delaware)-Rain 116;
oats, barley and rye heading and in
hne condition; potato crop promising.
Buchanan Qndependence) Cool
nights. but corn is growing well, and
all crops are doing we'll; general re-
mark is all crops in this county never
looked better; small fruit never more
plentiful.
Benton (Blairstown) Rain 1.55;
week not so favorable for corn as last
week; barley good, but oats not prom
ising as last year
Linn Mount Vernon)-Rain 1928;
sunshine rs; all crops doing well: corn
unusually clean; rye good oats heavy
and lodging in spots.
Jones (olin)-Rain .9S: corn we'll
cultivated and growing finely; soil in
best condition.
Jackson (Preston)--Corn doing ex-
ira well; fields in good condition and
nearly free from weeds; wheat all
headed.
Clinton (clinton Rain SO: good