Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-22
CORN THREATENED
FOSTERS WEATHER BULLETIN
PROMISES FAILURE OF loWA's
PRINCIPAL PRODUCT
Disaster Comes Once in Period Of
Every Eight Years, and the Last
One Occurred in 1so1-Forecasts for
March Weather.

another great corn failure which is
due this year, is given in Fosters
weather bulletin, just issued at Wash
ington, D. G. According to statistics
disaster has come to corn at least
once In period of every eight years,
the failures occurring from five to
eight years apart. The last wreck to
the worlds corn crop occurred in
1901 and 1t is reasonable to believe
that this year will bring another fail
ure In the staple for which Iowa is
famous.
Foster in his bulletin gives forecasts
for the month Of March. Normal
March weather is promised for this
section, although in some parts Of the
United States, the fiercest of winter
storms will predominant. Precipita-
ton Will be general but not excessive.
Fosters Weather Bulletin.
copyrighted 1906 by w. T. Foster.)
Note.-My Crop Weather" fore
casts for 1906 are now complete,
are of unusual interest, are the
1 best have ever made and sam
pie OF them will be mailed to any
one on receipt of a two-cent stamp.
Address w. T. Foster, Washington,
D. G.. Box XI.
Washington, D. G., Feb. 22.--My last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross the continent February % to
~, warm wave February 20 to 26, cool
wave February 25 to March 1. The
next disturbance will reach the Pacific
coast about February 26, cross west
of the Rockies by the close of the 9th,
great central valleys February % to
March 2 and the eastern states March
B. The warm wave will cross west of
the Rockies about February 26, the
great central valleys February % and
the eastern states March 2. The cool
wave will cross west of the Rockies
about March 1, the great central val
leys March 8, and the eastern states
March 5.
Weather energies of March will de-
velop in three disturbances that will
cross meridian 80 not far from the list,
i 18th and 23d, that of the LIST being the
disturbance described in the first para
graph above. It's temperatures will
average very low, the cool wave pre-
ceding the storm center causing cooler
weather than. usual, the warm wave
not bringing very high temperatures
and the cool wave resolving itself into
a blizzard and several days Of very
cold weather that will carry frosts far
southwark During the first week OF
March precipitation will be general
but not excessive.
March temperatures will average
above normal east of the Rockies and
below normal west. Most of the storm
centers will follow lines drawn near
Winnipeg, Des Monies, st. Louis, Gin.
cinnati and Washington, going into the
Atlantic not far from the latter city
This path of the storm centers will
cause March to be unusually cold in
the New England states, unusually
warm in the lower Missouri and lower
Mississippi valleys and about normal
along the path of the storms.
| Temperatures most below normal
will occur during the first week in
March, then two high temperature
periods centering near March Is and
March %, followed by cold period of
which March II will be the central
day, with a cool period not far from
the 18th. The most precipitation will
occur not far from March 2, II and 25
These dates are for meridian 30, about
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river extended northward East of that
line count one day later for every 400
miles and west of it one day earlier
for every 500 miles.
About and Immediately following
February "a one of the most severe
disturbances of the month will be near
meridian 80, moving eastward with a
cold wave following.
No period of eight years can be
found that has not brought disaster
to the corn crop Of the United States
These corn crop failures occur from
five to eight years apart and the last
one came in 1901. These are important
facts that are Of interest to millions oil
people. We are surely approaching
another great corn failure. The wheat
crop does not often fail on account OF
the drouth that destroys the corn.
believe it will be safest for all to fol
low my crop weather" forecasts.
WALNUT GROVE.
Walnut Grove, Feb. 2O-F. t. Funk
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