Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-08-03
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A large barn. owned ny j. AZ
Smith. residing north OF here. burned
to the ground Sunday night One
horse. some feed and farming tmple-
were destroyed The loss
has not been estimated. Origin Of
the fire : not known.
While July, this year, was pretty
warm. being a fraction above nor
nal and nearly thee degrees higher
than the mean for the same month
last rear, il was By no means the
hottest July On record in Mexico. Ac-
.cording to the records kept by J..
n. Lleweiyn. the local weather res
ord keeper. the warmest July was in
1901. when the temperature for the
month vas above 30 degrees.
The coolest July was probably in
1881 when the mean temperature was
near so.
The highest temperature during Jul
ly this year was 10s. This was for
one day only.
About the hottest July weather
on record was in-l901, when the
thermometer showed liz degrees for
four days. ITO degrees vas recorded
for three days that year and los
degreeg for two days.
The rainfall for July this year and
July in 1901 was about the same,
there being 81 hundredths difference.
In July this year there was EOS inch.
les Of rain and in July, 1891, there
were 2.06 inches.
Houston, Tex, Aug. l.
throughout the cotton belt Of Sout
lTexas ard especially in the lower
Rio Grande country. a movement Is
under way to enlist popular support
u a petition that may be presented
the United States government seek
ing the suspension OF the anti-alieT
labor laws until the bumper cotton
ctop OF Texas is harvested.
Texas this year faces the usua
shortage Of cotton piekers as th'
time Of harvest approaches. Field
are fast whitening. prices are hig!
and the planters are anxious to har
vest the biggest crop in years. "
as harvest time approaches available
labor becomes more scarce and it il
certain that by the time the piekinl
season is generally opened both whit
land negro labor viii be at a pre-
MUM,
The benefits TO be derived frsr
dry farming methods in a drough
season. and also from an honest fac
, ing OF the drought condition ar
shown by the crop condition figure
flor Missouri and Kansas, issued b
the United States government GRO
reports. In Kansas Secretary Cobur
states that there is ~ a through
In Kansas though Kansas has som
dry weather" and it was 116 at Tt
Peka that dag. This sort OF tai
looks well in print, but 1t does nc
forewarn the farmers to meet cor
= ditions as they are.
The ten year corn average in Mi
souri, on July l is SO and in Kan
sas 81. Under adverse condition
e this year, Missouri tell off s point
from the ten year average, Will
Kansas lost II points. with a bette
season than Missouri had up to tht
date. Dry farming methods did !
Missouri faced the condition an
fought the drought and Kansas ignc
ed the drought.
The ten year wheat average 0
July / in Missouri was So and f
: Kansas Is. but when adverse cond
lions arrived Missouri stood "a an
Kansas dropped to 65, or 10 poin,
below their ten-year average. Thes
are Uncle Sans figures, not c.
burns.
Missouri has been making strid,
in corn growing, and has left Ka
sas behind, despite Coburn's hume
ous bulletins, At the National Coz
Show at Omaha year before last Nj
: souri, took the grand ehampionsh
"a on yellow corn in competition wi
IN THE world. At Columbus, Ohio, NJ.
souri, did the same thing last wintc
Missouri also took second place
10 white corn. In neither of the
shows did Kansas get into the ru
IN lining.
The Kansas spirit, expressed
d. the Kansas language, is to each
err whether there is an egg or not, b
d, Missouri produced the goods.
While the Kansas AgricultuI
ID Board was busy sending out boa
Dr. full statements about Kansas Tin [
Kansas language OF eourse), {
Missouri board and its employ
W. were riding over the state, looki
UP corn conditions, sending {
thousands Of circular letters, issul
4. bulletins to be printed in the col
try papers and doing what could
done to fight the drought and !
over a crop despite adverse con
%tlons.
Missourians Will await with int
IN est the final figures on the Kani
and Missouri corn crops this fall.
Potatoes in the vicinity OF Pc
ellis Ford, north Of this city,
10 blooming a second time and ma
believe there will be a crop after Z