The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-02-05
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT.
POSSIBLY A COLD WAVE
May Accompany the Next Diturbanee,
An InterestingFeature Connected with
the Month Of February and Its Bear
ing on Growing Crops.

{ Copyrighted 1911 by w. I. Foster)
Washington Feb 4-Last bulletin
gave forecasts of disturbance to cross
the continent 2. to 6, warm wave to s,
cool wave i to s. Severe winter storms
will accompany this and temperatures
principally be recorded below the usual
a cold wave will be feature. In order
that they may be classed as cold waves,
the temperatures must fail 30 degrees III
"a hours and the lowest temperatures
must be at or below freezing.
The next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about 8, cross the Pacific
slope by close Of 7, great central valleys
8 to 10, eastern sections II. Warm
wave will cross the Pacific slope about
s, great central valleys 8, eastern sec
tions 10. Cool wave will cross the Pa
eifc slope about o great central valleys
IL, eastern sections "a
The notable feature OF this will be a
great rise in temperatures and it will
have the effect of causing the week. OF
which February II will be the central
day. to average much warmer than us
aaL Cold weather will precede and mod
crate follow the disturbance.
Another disturbance will closely fol.
low, reaching the Pacific coast about 9,
crossing Pacific slope BY close Of 10,
great central valleys Il to 13. eastern
sections IL Warm wave will cross the
Pacific slope about q great central val
leys II, eastern sections I3 Cool wave
viii cross Pacific slope about II, great
central valleys IA, eastern sections 70.
The operations Of this will Be the re-
verse Of the preceding It will begin with
moderate and end with low temporal
tilres. II Will not be of great force ex-
eept thai the cool wave viii increase its
intensity as il reaches the New Eng
land States.
An interesting feature of this month
VIII be the February tllaw The sixteen
days following February X will average
unusually warm west Of meridian 81,
which runs north near Dayton, Ohio.
That tilaw wiilifave a meaning to farm
ers. They know that freezing and thaw-
ing for three weeks in February means
for growing winter crops. They also
i4.,cx-,s 4l,o4 1ae. f,aJ ,,3.iIs -
for warm February OF course such
crop weather tends to lower prices for
corn and oats and to raise prices for
wheat. That would be the result if the
hogs, the big speclulators, would keep
their feet out of the trough and permit
crop weather conditions to have natural
effects ON prices.
From this date onward till northern
spring wheat shall have been harvested
conditions Of crop weather must be
taken into the account III reckoning val
ues of farm products. Great drouths,
excessively vet seasons and fine crop
weather conditions control prices and
with such conditions the big spectators
ARE not able to put prices up and down
at viii. But from October to February
or FIRST Of March the weather rs not a
controlling factor and as the producers
| then sell most Of their products they are
at the mercy of a gang Of free-booters
who are little better than highway rob
bers A remedy should be found to get
rid of these barnacles that, like the devil
/ fish. suck the life blood of their victims.
I warm all concerned that their guesses
on 1911 crop weather win fail Normal
conditions will not prevail, but all kinds
of extremes. Frequent very radical
and sudden changes from the very
worst crop weather conditions to the
very best; so frequent that all common
experiences win mislead. There is only
one hope for the farmer and dealer and
that is that Fosters Weather Bureau
has completely worked out the 1911 crop
weather. have the only complete set
of weather records on earth covering
| the daily temperatures and rainfall for
10 years. The same original records
are ii the United States Weather Bu-
reau but can not be used. I am the only
one who has completely compiled these
records, put them in shape to be used
for calculations of future weather.
We must know the future by the past
Franklin, Jefferson, Washington and al
the great scientists who, since their day
have been associated with the Smithson-
ian Institution have uniformly encour-
aged the careful recording of tenpera-
ture, rain, snow, sleet and other weather
features to Be used in calculating future
weather. Ben Franklin, BY the use d
such records, discovered that weather
disturbances move frors1 west to east