The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-11
WEATHER We IN CYCLES
Mlsso Ukt pRoeAar pAEoicrs sv
nATA o. YEARS.
Each Decade Much Like One Before
(, mild Winter Means Sig Wheat
Crop, But Visitation Of Lo-
custs Is Due in Summer.

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Macon, Mo.--AIacon has weather
prophet whose forecasts seem to hi
the bull's.eye. IN the latter part o
August, 1906, h5 made this statement
and files of the local papers verify IL
This will he q fine year to SOW
wheat. But 1t must be In before tho
20th of September; it will be usclos:
to do any planting after that. We are
going to have q mild winter, and thai
means big wheat yield.v
This weather soothsayers name /!
August 4. claim. lie is about 90, ant
operates a 200.acre farm east of Ma
con. Such confidence have the farm
ers of Macon and Shelby counties IL
Mr.. Claims forecasts that they plant
ed many thousands OF acres of wheat
in excess of the normal acreage.
And so far the weather has borne
out Mr.. Glahh's predictions to the let
ter. The winter in these parts has
been one of unusual mildness, witt
frequent springlike rains. The ther
.mometcr has rarely gone lower thar
80 above zero. and has more Otter
.hovered about so.
Mr.. Claim uses no wizards wand
no crystal globes, and no occult ait
of any sort to tell a year in advance
what Uncle Sans weather observer
will report He carries with him lit
tie book, well.thumbed with the pass
ing years. and full of interesting data
compiled from &C years back on dowr
to date.
Mr.. Claims father was the first his
torian. He took q notion that the
weather came in cycles, and his OBJ
joct was to learn the extent of those
servation of his weather diary, he
came to the conclusion that the sea
sons repeated themselves every dec
ade; that each year in decade hat
q brand of weather peculiar to itself
Now and then in a long while, there
was a break--a cog slipped some
where in the universe. But sucl
things were rare. The harmony ol
the years was as the assurance of the
salvation to the just. What happened
in 1s45 was bound to happen in 1855
There was no getting around it. The
diary was continued on until the
twentieth century. the son taking uf
the work when the father passed into
q land where the storms of life do moi
trouble. Now the younger historian
getting well along in years, has, he
claims, demonstrated his fathers the
Org beyond any sort of doubt, and he
Is giving his farmer friends the bene
fit OF II.
The harvest OF this year viii bt
dry" said Mr.. Claim. "The sevens
have been almost uniformly dry since
1910, and are fine years for small.
grain. This year will be good fol
peaches. and also the year following
Including 1906, this will give us three
good peach years in succession. The
sevons and eights are always fine foi
this fruit.
But there is ono ominous fight fol
ils this year. There will be Il vista
tion Of locusts. which will last about
six weeks. The locusts come ever,
IL years without fail. The record
shows that they were here in lS42,
1855. 1868, 1881 and 1894. That puts
them due in 1907.
Being forewaued however, the
farmer can turn his hogs and chick
ems into his orchards, and they will
oat up the pests nearly as fast as they
gcrminate. The locusts have never
done near as much damage in this
section as the grasshopper and are
not to be dreaded as much.
"UnlcsS in unusually large numbers
they will not eat small grain. They
dcvour the slender stalks OF wheat
but don't touch the stronger stalks
They will appear in the latter part OF
May and disappear about the 1st OF
August The hogs should be turned
into the orchards during April. The
locusts make fine feed for hogs and
chickens. They like them and thrive
wonderfully on the insects.
Corn will do fairly well, but may
not be quite mp TO the average. Next
September will be little too dry 70,
that grain. Wheat Is the thing for
the husbandman to stick to in 1907
II lie has the right character OF soil tc
develop it, The season Is bound to
do the rest"