Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-04-11
FIRST HALF OF
APRIL TO Be COLD
PROF w. T. Foster TELLS THE
TRUTH CONCERNING THIS
MONTH

w
says the first half Of April will aver
age very cool" He might have said
the first few days would be cold,
and still he wouldn't have missed I'll
very far. However, according to the
same authority, Iowa is to have its
warm weather later on. Following
is the bulletin in detail:
Washington, D. c., April 9.-Last
bulletin gave forecast of disturbance
to cross continent April to H.,
warm wave to 10, cool wave 9 10
IS. Next disturbance will reach Pacl.
Yic coast about II. cross west OF
Rockies country by close OF II, great
central valleys 13 to Is, eastern states
49, Warm wave will cross west OF
Rockies about IL, great central val
leys 10, eastern states Is. Cool wave
will cross west of Rockies about 1T
great central valleys 16, eastern states
Is.
Low temperature will prevail dur
ing the week covered by this distur'
bance and then will come great high
temperature wave reaching merriam
90 about 90 and followed by severe
cool wave that will carry frosts un-
usually far southwark. The warm
wave expected to reach meridian 30
about Ia will be very moderate with
cool weather preceding and following
| it.
| First half Of April will average very
cool with more rain within hum
dred miles from Pittsburg to St
Louis; rather dry elsewhere. Tenn
peratures will be moderately change
able up to middle of April and then
radically changeable going to all kinds
Of weather extremes including severe
storms.
Will Show the Farmers.
Last half of April will bring excep-
tionally bad crop weather and farm
ers of mid-latitudes will begin to sec
why l advised them not to sell corn
From this to end of crop season crop
weather will greatly fuctuate. some
times good, sometimes bad.
Soon after April a high tempera
4 ture wave will reach meridian co. car
i rying with it strenuous weather with
northern cold wave following. That
\ cold wave will reach meridian 80 about
April % and farmers, florists, gard
! ners and the house-keeper with tender
4 plants. particularly along and north
of parallel 40-should be on the alert
i for frosts.
i / am thoroughly convinced that
serious drouth will greatly damage
the crops in some sections this year
: particularly in the corn belt. &C
not believe there Is as much corn II
the country as manipulated report:
), indicate. The great spectators have
! complete control of everything tina
. has a bearing on the markets excep
J. the weather and they even annul th'
natural weather effects.
Would Exile Market Rulers.
II the great manipulators OF thu
cereal and stock markets could d.
banished to the island where Dreyfu
: was confined the human race woult
be immensely benefited and agrlc'll
tural interests might get a fair deal
but SO long as sleepy people pei
nit these ghouls to roam at large an
bring desolation to an otherwise pros
perous people so long will tines
/ sleuths of predatory wealth rob tn
Industrious. Why will agricultural n
: terests permit these exploiters to d
vide and conquer them? Why do no
t farmers see their way clear to unit
in self defense? !,
. Cotton planters are learning to hol
: the old crop till it is known what tn
9 new crop will make. 1t is more di
ficult to hold old corn, wheat, oat
s and other grain, but that is the SUI
est way for producers to secure tn
n high prices that always come Wit
years when crops fail. Producer
should study how best to keep OF
= corn and wheat and oats till the ne
4 crops are made.