Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-12

In this weeks weather bulletin
Professor W.. T. Foster of Wash
ington, D. c., takes occasion to warn
the farmer OF the operations of the
spectators In the big markets, but at
the same time predicts sixty cent corn
in the Chicago markets and advises
the farmer to hold his corn in order to
secure this price.
In the weather line there is nothing
particularly exciting predicted in this
weeks bulletin excepting the usual hot
and cold waves. The bulletin follows:
The Bulletin.
Last bulletin gave forecasts Of dis
turbance to cross continent 10 to 4.
warm wave s to 10, cool wave IL to
Is. Next disturbance will reach Pa
ciflc coast about is, cross west of
Rockies by close of Is, great central
valleys II to 10. eastern states 20.
Warm wave will cross west Of Rockies
about Is, great central valleys II, east
ern states 10. Cool wave will cross
west Of Rockies about Is, great central
valleys 20, eastern states a..
long period of the lowest average tenn
pCIdlulSo VI luc dhQ wall Siooo
the best part of the corn crop weather
Of 1906. The coolest part of June and
the most general rains OF the month
will come, In most sections, not far
from Ii and ! expect drouth to be-
gin in the principal corn sections not
long thereafter, accompanied by very
much higher temperatures.
| This disturbance will be most severe
on the Pacific. slope not far from 16
and at the same time the preceding dis
turbance will be causing severe wealth
er in the eastern states and provinces.
Severe weather will be more general
than usual near Is.
Farmers Keep Corn,
| -Four months ago advised farmers
to keep a large part Of their corn and
stated that the corn crop Of 1906 will
sell IS per cent short OF that Of 1905.
repeat that statement. A partial fail
ure of the corn crop means higher
prices for beef and pork. expect
fall pastures to be cut short by the
midsummer drouth in the corn belt
and this will make a greater demand
for oats and corn. Texas will have too
much rain this month and that Will
not be good for the cotton,
1.-THE time seems opportune for me
| to again warn grain dealers against
/ the Internal machine operated at the
principal market centers by powerful
rings of SPECTATORS. Whenever the
country dealers make a rush to buy
or sell, these wealthy spectators take
the other side even when conditions
are largely against them. Their money
is sufficient to overcome ordinary con-
ditions and their harvest Of profits
comes when the masses of dealers are
going one way My forecasts might ef-
feet the markets of supply and demand
controlled by the markets. A farmer
can hold his corn for better prices.
but common option dealer cannot
hold his deals against uncertain man
ipulations of the big speculators.
Sixty Gents Promised.
"But advise producers to hold their
good corn for sixty cents. Chicago
markets Those big spectators may run
down the price five cents bushel be
fore the full effects of the drouth are
apparent, but after the damage to the
crop is apparent to all, the spectators
lose control of the markets and it Is
then under the control of the produc
ers.
II expect fax seed to be damaged by
the northwestern drouth. ! canno'
say what the effect will be on fax lint
really do not know whether the faa
lint of the northwest Is saved.