Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-12

-. or .33 inches moro than normal:
pAseuSss BADLY burned: Some eoen
dried up; early potatoes poor: late po-
tatess same batter.
| Carroll Cbedham) still hot and
dry. thosa fairly good shower came or
"Wednesday night. ana cloudy day.
have Kept corn from lfrins: roasting
ears In early planted fields. while late
corn 10 at standstill: small Grain Il
OF excellent quality and fairly good
yield.
Central District.
Hardin Uowa Falls)-Rain. Is; ear
ly planting OF corn entering the roast
ing ear stage: some fields show SER
ious effect Of drought: on good land,
well cared for. but little apparent dam
age has been done as yet: potatoes and
pastures must have rain soon; fine
progress being made with thfeshing.
Poweshiek (Grinnell) Rain. LOT:
great relief from the hot wave came
this (CSunday) forenoon when "a inch
Of rain broke the drought; threshing
has continued thru the week: about
three -fourths Of the oats crop IL in the
granaries: the quality Is excellent and
will average 81 pounds to the bushel.
Jasper (Monroe)-Rain; .1s; more
rain needed: early corn hurt some;
roads very dusty.
Dallas (Waukee)-Rain, .os; rain
is needed badly: heat and hot winds
| Of last two days have damaged corn;
pastures are brown: grass IN many
places like finder and would burn
readily: gardens suffering; no late po-
tatoeG
Guthrie Guthrie sCenter) -Rain.
o.: another hot, dry week has been
hard on pastures. and water for stock
is scarce in some localities; oats turn
ing out forty to sixty bushels per acre,
and Of good quality.
East Central District.
/. Dubuque (Dubuque)-Rain. .35. or
/ SO inch less than normal; weather
generally favorable: corn was greatly
benefited by rain Of Thursday; good
crop is promised here: more rain
needed. for potatoes, gardens and pas
lures: oats generally fair crop; apples
anG plums will be quite abundant.
Delaware (Delaware)-Rain, IL;
another hot, dry week; rain must come
soon to benefit corn and potatoes; some
hog cholera reported in county.
Benton (Luzerne)-Rain, trace: an
other hot week; II rain does not come
soon the late potato crop will be lost;
corn is drying up: pastures are dead.
Jackson (Preston)-Weather very
hot and corn is suffering to great ex-
tent. and pastures and meadows are
burning.
Clinton (clinton)-Rain. .25: all
vegetation needs rain badly; pasture:
drying up and corn is beginning TO
show ill effect Of drouth; threshins
nearly completed.
Scott CDavenport)-Rain, 90, or ~
inch less than normal average daily
excess Of temperature. 10 degrees; tbs
showers OF the past week were 50 light
that growing crops vsrs benefited only
slightly: Q large percentage q the
conn crop has been badly hred BY hot.
dry weather and the yield will BE- re-
duced fully one-third: potatoes have
not been 50 seriously affected by the
drouth, but that crop remains below
the normal: on account Of the dry,
hard condition Of the ground no plov-
ing has been done; there is practically
no pasturage and not much aftermath:
the maximum temperature Of 1905 de-
grees, on the 9Th, was the highest ever
recorded at Davenport during August:
the previous record for this month was
9s.5 degrees. sa
Cedar (west Braneh)-with the
exception Of light scattered showers
the drouth remains unbroken; pas
lures are brown and bare: potato crop
Will be short: much corn is firing; oats
weld thirty to sixty bushels per acre;
timothy. four to six: barley, twenty to
thirty; winter wheat, twenty-five to
forty bushels: hog cholera is wide
spread; many are inoculating, and
more would II serum could be obtained.