Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-21
LOOK OUT FOR
COMING FROST
PROF. w. T. FOSTER PREDICTS
THAT CORN WILL BE SLIGHTLY
NIPPED IN SEPTEMBER
Says That Drouth Is Over, Heated
Spell Almost Abated, and Cool Wave
Close at Hand-This Weeks Bulletin
Crop Report Misleading.

Frost much further south
than is usually the case this
time Of the year, Is predicted for the
first week in September by Prof. W. T..
Foster of Washington. He says that
he thinks that some Of the corn crop
will be nipped, but that no extensive
damage will be done. The principal
features of the next disturbance" as
he sees them, Is the abatement of the
drouth, where there is one, the break
ing up of the extreme hot weather
and the appearance of a cool wave.
Bulletin for this Week.
This weeks bulletin, issued by the
professor, is as follows:
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis
turbance to cross continent 10 to %,
warm wave, 10 to %, cool wave 81 to
rs. Next disturbance will reach Paci-
f1c coast about 25 cross west of Rock
les by close of 26, great central val
legs 81 to 20, eastern states 80. Warm
wave will cross west of Rockies about
rs, great central valleys 81, eastern
states 20. Cool wave will cross west
of Rockies about %, great central val
leys 80, eastern states September 1.
"The important features Of this dis.
turbance will be an increase of rainfall
where drouth has prevailed, the end
| ing of the heated term and a cool
wave that will send frosts unusually
far south for the season. Some corn
in the north will be nipped by the
frosts the first week in September, but
extensive damages are not anticipated
Following Aug. 18, some very So
we're weather may be expected; a hot
wave, thunderstorms and severe
squalls. The heated term will con
tinue till after the next disturbance.
Is Public Spirited.
"No better service in the interest o.
the public can be performed than just
criticisms of the government crop re
ports. The cotton crop reports for July
are very misleading, easily manipulat
ed in the interest of the great specu
lators and against the planters ane
common dealers. The effect of the re
ports is to make 1t appear that the
1906 crop on July % was points be
low the conditions last year, when II
fact the governmental figures. wheI
analysed, show the reverse. This re
suit may not be premeditated by the
government experts but they could no
possibly find method that would pla!
more effectually into the schemes 0
the great spectators.
Report Deterioration.
''They report deterioration in eacl
of the states of Virginia, North ant
South Carolina Of per cent as com
pared with 1905 That makes, in thu
final calculations, an average loss o
5 per cent to each state. Then 70
Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas the,
report conditions averaging 8 per cen
better than for 1905. Balancing tn
two they conclude that the cotton crol
in those six states is not as good as Il
1905. Can you see the error? Takin,
Texas alone, they report the crop
per cent better than for 1905. Appl,
that per cent of bettered conditions t,
; bales produced and the per cent in
crease in Texas would overbalance tn
per cent of decrease in the tire
states of Virginia, North and Soutl
, Carolina
Spectators Don't Care.
, 1.-THE great spectators never car
whether the country buys or sells col