Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-07
FROST FOR IOWA
IN AUGUST, MAYBE
PROF. w. T. FOSTER SAYS THAT
DESTROYING ELEMENT WILL
MAKE ITS APPEARANCE
Does Not Designate Where, Except In
"Those Places Where it Sometimes
Occurs" at This season-Makes
Comparison With Other Crop Re.
ports.

Frosts will occur in the month of
August, according to Prof. W. T. Eos
ter, the Washington weather arranger.
That is, they will happen in chose
places where they sometimes occur"
during that month. If you will ask
some oldest inhabitant' he will be
able to tell you whether this means
any part Of Iowa or not the professor
does not mention in particular any of
these places.
The Bulletin.
"A cool wave Is predicted about Aug
ust Ii to Is. The bulletin for the
week follows:
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis
turbances to cross continent on the
4th to the Sth, warm wave Bird to 7th.
cool wave 9th to 10th. Next disturb
ance will reach Pacific coast about the
9Th, cross west of Rockies by close of
9th, great central valleys 10th to 18th,
eastern states, 18th. Warm wave will
cross west of Rockies country about
the Sth, great central valleys 10th,
eastern states 18th Cool wave will
cross west of the Rockies about the
18th, great central valleys 18th, east
ern states 18th.
This disturbance will be at its great
est extent and intensity on the Pacific
coast and slope, will be above average
intensity throughout It's course, but
will bring less severe weather than
will occur within few days of the 9Th
and the 21st.
"a great fall in temperature will
come with the cool wave of this disturb,
ance and frosts may be expected
where they sometimes occur in Aug
ust. Showery weather will follow the
low, except in the drouth districts of
the corn belt heretofore named.
"Only about one-half the usual
amount of rain fell in July as an aver.
age Of the six best corn producing
states and while the damage to the
corn crop in July was probably not as
great as it was in June, the rainfall Of
July was almost exactly as predicted
and the crop is now in condition to
withstand the August drouth.
Six Months Ago and Now.
"Six months ago l advised farmers
that the 1906 corn crop would be 25
per cent short of the 1905 crop and
have no reason for changing that esti
mate. The government report for
June showed a considerable decrease
in conditions of the corn crop as com
pared with June, 1905, and there is
still a decrease at the beginning OIL
August.
But in their total percentages the
government crop experts made the
per cent of improved conditions in the
seven southern states, where almost
no corn is produced, overbalance the
per cent of decreased conditions in the
seven great corn producing states and
announced general Improvement OF
the corn crop, as whole, of 8 pei
cent; thus claiming that the 1905 corr
crop would be 66,O00,0O0 bushels better
than the 1906 crop. That report caus
ed a fall Of cents bushel on corr
and the farmers lost million dollars
thereby.
Estimate Faulty.
"By estimating the corn crop condi
tions by states and on bushels the re
ports Of the government experts would
have shown decrease of 5 per cent
in the corn crop conditions at the END
OF June, or a loss OF llU,UUU,uUU DuSh
els, as compared with June, 1905, ant
with that kind Of report the price d
corn would have gone up cents. The
manipulators of the government corr
crop report for June. 1906, has thus
cost the farmers millions of dollars
and the money has gone into the peck
cts Of the great SPECTATORS combine
which is manipulated by the leaders Q.
the great trusts.
''If the so-called. government scien
lists would base their reports on bush
els of grain produced in the states this
evil would he remedied."