Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
CROP REPORT
FOR The WEEK
BULLETIN ISSUED BY THE IOWA
WEATHER BUREAU INCLUDES
ESTIMATE OF ACREAGE.

ESTIMATE OF ACREAGE
Des Moines, Aug 24.-The average
| daily temperature was six degrees
above normal last week, says the Iowa
| Crop Service bulletin, although the
latter half of the week was consider
| ably cooler than the preceding seven
teen days. The weather was almost
cloudless until Sunday, the a2nd, and
the few showers that have occurred
have been very light and widely scat
Itered. The drouthy conditions have
| been intensified over the southern half
of the state, BIT corn on rich and well
titled land is holding its own remark
1 ably we'll The late planted fields and
corn on poor and weedy ground has
suffered materially from the lack of
moisture, and the whole of the crop
will deteriorate daily until a good rain
1 falls. Corn in the northern part of the
state is generally in very good condi-
! ton and developing nicely. Much of 1t
| is beyond the roasting ear stage and
some of the earliest planted is begin
| ming to dent. Late potatoes and pas
1 lures have also suffered in the drouthy
districts. and fall blowing has been re-
| tarded. Threshing has progressed nice
| " and is practically finished in many
| districts.
4
age of the staple crops for 1909 based
on the reports of crop correspondents
of the Iowa Weather and Crop Service,
and the acreage for 1908 as shown by
the returns of the Township Assessors:
Winter wheat, 133,74O acres: spring
wheat, 265,SSo; corn, S,21S,2So; oats,
| 4,261,410; rye, 1850; barley. 492,320;
tame hay, 3.4S5.55o; wild hay, ss6,740;
pastures, S,901, $40; flax, 25,520; pota-
1 toes, 12T,S40 acres.
Southeast District.
4 HENRY s(Mt. Pleasant )--Still con-
tinues dry, but the temperature is
much lower; corn is holding up sur
/ light and there will not be much seed
saved: pastures getting short.
LEE Ckeokuk)-No rain; average
| daily excess of temperature six de-
grees; drouth becoming serious; corn
4 is deteriorating daily, and the late
4 planted is firing; late potato crop will
\ be shortened: no rain since July 2Sth.
VAN buren, (Stockport) -Contin-
ued dry; no rain since in July; every
1 thing needing rain; corn cut shorter
every day. tBonaparte) Rain .04:
cooler. but intensely dry: threshing
completed; corn. suffering for rain;
will make a short crop at best.
i South Central District.
MAHASkA (Oskaloosa)- Raj n,
n its own very we'll Int some on high
ground is fired. nastnres are driving
m
MARION CPella1-Rain .o7. corn OF,
we'll titled fields do NOT show effects Of
drouth h,t Other fields are turning
Yellow
UNION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DAYS
of continuous sunshine ninateen nj
which tl,a ta,,, ,ar, t,,ra Voc fron, Of r.
90 degrees. these hot drv DAYS arc
ta,1ins hard IN tho corn and 1,a stures.
skies indieo Hue ana not a cloud as
; aren &C a mans hand. thrasbins near
inc CONJUNCTION and foo drv tie NOV
, Irs,ostn,,6 NJ rair. fo, th.oo - ,,a a
| corn fi,ino hadl,s. fail n,o1uin. limos
sibja. fine weather for threshine. ats
, Weld light.
CLARK TToneviller-Rain 40.
very DIV. late notatnes baaIy damap.
OIL h., Sro,,tb early corn in roastins
car stage. iate corn inst hee,;nnire Is
tasSal. a.. ,.,,, e,rn f;red sn,,ea M 4
good rains come soon no serious dam.
na ,iII ,os,,,lt a,yo.,,+ ~ All,