The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-09-24
WEATHER BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
A GREAT, WARM WAVE
Continued Dry Spell With Possibly
Some Rain i'm Seine Sections, but
Southern Texas and Southern
Florida Will Be Dry.

Florida Will Be Dry.
| copyrighted 1911 by w. T. Foster.
Washington, Sept. 23.-Last bulIe
| tin gave forecasts of disturbance t(
cross the continent September 2i t.
p, warm wave 20 to "a. cool wave z,
to 81. 1t will be accompanied by {
great storm wave, followed by {
great fall i'll temperatures that will
be a cold wave and cause frosts il
northern sections and will be tht
most severe disturbance of the
month. The rain wave of this dis
turDance will cross the Pacific slope
about September "a, great centra
valleys 26, eastern sections %. MOI
mach rain from that rain wave, but
most OF the precipitation will be in
the lower Missouri valleys, about
the lower great lakes and along anC
north of the Ohio valleys. Dry OF
the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
The next disturbance will reach
the Pacific coast about September
q, cross Pacific slope by close OF
28, great central valleys 20 to 0c-
tober /, eastern sections October 2
Warm wave will cross the Pacific
slope about September u, the great
central valleys 90, eastern sections
October 1 Cool wave will cross Pa
cIfic slope about September 30, the
great central valleys October 2, east
ern sections October (.
Not much expected of this dis
turbance. 1t will be Of more than
usual force but nothing about ii
that should have special mention
Many sections will remain too dry to
sow winter wheat. There are very
considerable sections that will never
return the seed wheat. Farmers
should wait till the soil has enough
moisture to sprout the grain. It will
rot pay this year to SOW wheat on
dry soil, taking the risk of rains
coming in time.
October will be an unusually
warm month and winter grain that
has been sown early will probably
be the breeding grounds for the de-
struetive fly All indications argue
in favor of sowing wheat late. The
temperatures of October will aver
age unusually low in Cuba and the
other West India islands. The imme-
diate cause will be that the highs
will pass eastward far to the south
ward and the lows far to the north
ward.
October will be excessively dry
east of meridian IS, entirely too dry
for sowing winter grain. Southern
Texas and Southern Florida will be
dry In nearly all other sections good
rains may be expected. OF course a
few small sections will not fit this
forecast. During the weeks center
ing on October 10 and 25 rain waves
will cross the continent and good
rains are expected in Arizona, New
Mexico, western Texas and from the
Arkansas river northward; also near
the lower Mississippi and in middle
parts of the southeastern states.
In the above general forecasts | do
not mean to advise that it will pay
to sow winter grain. have not space
in general letter to give
such advice for every farm, and all
| can do through these general press
letters is to point out the expected
general crop weather features. The
strongest evidence | have is to the
effect that October will be dry with
in 300 miles of a line drawn from
Cincinnati to Boston, while abund-
ant rains will fall within 200 miles
of line drawn from st. Louis by
way of Des Moines to st. Paul.