Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-24
WEEKLY CROP REPORT
CORN IN NORTHERN IOWA IN
GOOD coNDIrloN-PAs.
TuREs DRY.
AVERAGE DAILY TEMPERATURE
WAS ABOVE THE NORMAL
preushty Conditions H.v. Grown
Worse in Many Southern countis.-
Corn in Well Titled Land 10 holdinn
tie own-Rsports From Central Iowa
countiss-othsr News.

Des Moines, Aug. 24.-The aver
age daily temperature was three
to six, degrees above normal,
altho the latter half Of the
preceding seventeen days. The weather
was almost cloudless until Sunday,
Aug. %, and the few showers that have
occurred have been very light and
widely scattered.
The drouthy conditions have been in
tensiaed over the southern half of the
state. but corn ON rich and we'll titled
land is holding Its own remarkably
well. 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 deteri-
crate daily until good rain falls.
Corn in the northern part Of the stat:
is generally In very good condition and
developing nicely. Much of it Is be-
yond the roasting ear stage and some
OF the earliest planted is beginning q
dent.
Late potatoes and pastures have also
suffered in the drouthy districts, and
fall blowing has been retarded. Thresh-
ing has progressed rapidly and is prac-
tically finished in many districts.
North Central District.
Hancock (Britt)-Rain, trace; ideal
weather for stacking and threshing;
pastures fair to good: potatoes need
rain; blowing well started
Franklin Geneva)-Pleasant wealth
er with two light showers; good pro-
gress made in stacking and threshing
corn is doing well, but needs lots of dry
warm weather to fully mature before
frost; ground most too dry to pillow
(Hampton)-Rain .21; an ideal week
gress toward ripening; ground in fail
condition for blowing, but little rair
would be welcome.
Wright (Dows)-Rain needed; pas
lures getting dry.
Central DISTRICT.
Grundy (Grundy Center)-Rain II;
shock threshing about completed; no
tatoes about 40 per cent of averag:
crop; oats 60 per cent.
Hardin (Iowa Falls)-Rain Is; corr
maturing rapidly; barley and late po-
tatoes on light sandy soils injured by
drouth; rain needed for everything.
Story (Zearing)-Rain .04; fore par
Of week hot, latter part warm and dry
corn and pastures need rain; some corr
past redemption: shock threshing com,
pleted; potato crop will be failure.
Marshall (Marshalltown)-No rain
weather has been hot and corn ha.
fired some; oats are yielding light, bu
Of good quality. (Gilman)-Rain AS or
the 22d will benefit corn and pasture.
very materially.
Tama tToledo}-Less than one incl
OF rain since July 6; oats yield abou
80 bushels per acre; most fields of corr
will be short from is to % per cent
many fields firing badly.
Poweshiek, (Grinnell)-Rain .o4: {
remarkably dry week; more than Z:
hours without cloud in sight.
Jasper (Newton)-Rain is; the eff.
fects of heat and drouth are visible
everywhere in pastures, corn fields ant
meadows; pastures short, corn firing
and vegetation drying up generally
(Monroe)-Rain .29; crops needing
rain; Is per cent of threshing done
(Newton, Sunday, 22d)-Rain SO incl
at $3.50 a. m. and still falling.