Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-30
else needed it; prospects

webster( Fort sDodge)-Rain, 81;
corn Is making fair advance, but
nights are too cool for rapid growth;
small grain and grass are improving.
Boone (Ogden)-Rain, 3.76; mean
temperature, IS degrees. (Boone)-
RAIN 2.s6; crops are now doing well;
corn being plowed the third time.
Story (Ames)-The rain has greatly
relieved growing crops; corn Is doing
reasonably we'll; cherries have good
yield; blackberry and raspberry crops
promise fair yields.
Poweshiek (Grinnell) -Rain 2.s5;
corn is really above an average and
shows best for years; small grain
promises we'll; potatoes fine in color
and growth. (Hartwick)-Rain 1853;
doing we'll and is free from weeds:
small grain and hay will be light.
Jasper (Newton)-Rai 2.s5; corn is
doing splendidly and vegetation has,
greatly revived. tMonroe)-Rain 1.b9;
much benefit to corn, potatoes and gar
dens; drought injured hay crop some.
(Baxter)-Rain $40; everything boom
ing.
Polk (Des Moines)--Rain 1896; mean
much benefited by the copious show
ers. The cool nights and low tempera-
lures did no harm to corn and were
beneficial to oats and the hay crop.
East Central District.
Delaware (Delaware)-Rain 81;
corn well cultivated and making good
growth oats on sandy or thin soil will
be short, but good on most land; po-
tatoes and gardens are good.
Buchanan Gndependence)-Corn is
clean and good stand, but smaller
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oats short in straw, but filling we'll.
Black Hawk (Waterloo)-Rain 81;
the light showers did p great deal to-
wards relieving the drought; oats
heading, short in straw; corn is clean
and doing well.
Benton (Blairstown)-Rain 1.61;
week too cool for rapid growth of corn
Linn Cedar Rapids)-Rain sos.
tMt. Vernon)-Rain 80; crops a little
slow, but promising.
Jackson (Preston)-Rain 1893; plen-
ty Of moisture; too cool for corn; small
grain in good condition; hay crop
promising
Johson Iowa city)-Rain la.
Iowa (Aanamosa)-Rain Ill; timely
rain brought sufficient moisture;
warmer weather needed; hay making
begun; raspberries ripening.
Southeast District.
IISIHy \fuOull lJ-Ibdlll l.IaB
doing much good to oats, corn and pas
lures, and will thicken up the mea-
dows. a..
Louisa Columbus Junction)-Rain
$50.
Washington washington Rain
1.52; oats and hay have improved
since the rain; corn Is doing well, but
needs little warmer weather; some
HAIL fell in northern part of the coun-
| try.
Des Moines (Burlington>-Rain
1903; this rain came in the right time
for oats, meadows and pastures; out
look for corn Is very good.
Lee (Keokuk)-Rain so; average
daily deficiency in temperature de-
grees. (Fort Madison)-Rain 1.72; this
rain has helped everything; will have
a good crop of peaches, though many
fell from trees.
Van. Buren, (Bonaparte)-Rain, .ss;
cool for corn, but good for small grain;
Splendid rains Monday and Saturday;
corn clean and growing fast; all crops
promising.
South Central District.
Mahaska (Oskaloosa)-Rain 1.51;
corn is growing fast and some Of 1t is
two feet high; all crops are doing well.
Marion( Pella)-Rain 1.54; the rain
was very beneficial for pastures and
small grain, a nice lot of clover hay
has been secured.
/ Warren (Indianola)-Over inches
of rain, splendid week; much corn
will be laid bv before July 1; small
| grain promising; haying begun.
| Madison (Earlham)-Rain 206; the
fine rain on Monday sent crops up
ward. CWinterset)-The rain makes
crops look promising and puts smile
on the face Of nature.
Union Afton)-Ra so; corn is
clean and is being worked the third
time; oats and meadows are short;
pastures need water; fruits a good
crop. (Platte)-Fine week for working
corn and 1t Is clean; nights too cool
1 for much growth.
j Lucas (Chariton)- Rain 1.55; corn
doing finely; grass and oats short;
fine prospect for apples.
il Monroe( Albia)-Heavy rain delayed
blowing four days; wheat and oats
heading well; corn doing well; clover
i hav being cut,
| Appanoose (centerville) -Rain or
18th and 18th broke the drought; corr
i was never better; hay, oats and vege-
J, tables much improved; apples, plums
} and peaches abundant
il Wayne (Allerton)-Rain "a; good
prospect now for corn; oats doing bet
ter since the rain; raspberry croI
good.
Decatur (Leon)-Rain so; corn is
doing well; good yield of cherrie:
and small fruits: rain is needed fol
meadows and other crops. J
Ringgold Mount Ayr)-Rain 1.0S
this did an immense amount of good
, there some some hail, but no dam
age.
Southwest District.
Cass (Atlantic)-Rain 2:49; goot
week for all crops. (Wiota)-The rail-
was Of great benefit; temperature to-
low for proper growth Of corn; small
grain and hay looking better.
Mlls( Glenwood)-Rain 3:45; corr
J is clean and has good color; small
grain will be somewhat short. Pota
toes below average; apples are look
ing well.
Montgomery Cred oak-About tw'
inches Of rain on eighteenth improves
? late oats, spring wheat and grass
wheat is heading: corn is looking fin
and some is being laid by (Elliott)-
Rain 1:12: grain and grass much i'm
proved: good week for haying.
:, Adams (Corning)-Rain 1905: tn
. rain came in time to help oats some