Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-05

10y, 70: oats. SO bushels per acre.
Shelby (Harlan) Rain 10 badly
needed: corn 10 firing. late potatoes are
Ing up and spring clover 10 whiting;
harvesting 10 about finished. and
threshing 10 in progress, with fair
yields.
Central District.
Hardin Qowa Falls)-Rain. 20; corn
seems to be standing the dry weather
remarkably well. little II any damage as
yet; pastures becoming very dry;
threshing returns give oats from thirty
to forty Ave bushels per acre.
Story (Ames)-Extremely dry wealth
er with hot winds on Tuesday and
Wednesday damaged corn consider
ably; second crop Of clover and third
cutting of alfalfa is being held back.
r Poweshiek (GrinnelD-This week Of
serious drouth has had . bad effect on
the cane crop. especially injuring the
crop of sweet corn intended for the
cannery: oats average close to thirty
Ave bushels per acre; swine plague pre-
walls quite extensively south OF this
station, several entire herds Of young
pigs dying in short time.
Jasper (Monroe)-Rain. 10: one-half
Of threshing done: oats yield from
twenty-five to fifty-four bushels per
acre; corn, pastures and gardens need
ing rain.
Dallas Ode Soto)-Still very dry and
all growing crops are suffering; pas
lures are very dry and many wells are
falling; corn leaves curl during the
middle of each day. (Waukee)-Corn
and pastures need rain: threshing is
being pushed rapidly; grain Of good
quality; oats will average about forty
five bushels per acre; winter wheat.
twenty five; spring wheat, fifteen
Perry)-Oats are turning out thirty
five to fifty bushels per acre, and quail
ity very good; corn badly damaged by
drouth and heat; potatoes are a failure;
all garden truck in need Of rain.
Guthrie Guthrie Center)-Trace Of
rain on two days; the dry, hot weather
is hard on late potatoes: early potatoes,
fair crop; some Of the corn that was
not cultivated in time is showing the
neglect.
East Central District.
Dubuque (Dubuque)-Rain, .05, or 81
inch less than normal; average daily
excess Of temperature. 4 degrees; rain
is needed for corn. potatoes and other
growing crops; the temperature OF the
30th, 100 degrees. was the highest re-
corded for two years.
Delaware Delaware)-Rain, trace;
an intensely hot, dry week; rain Is
needed, as It has been short all season;
everything drying up; threshing in pro-
gress; yield of oats reported short, but
quality good.
Blackhawk (waterloo)-Rain, 10:
weather very hot: oats harvested and
threshing begun: yielding from forty to
fifty bushels per acre on black soil and
about twenty-five bushels on sandy
soil.
Benton (Luzerne)-No rain; first half
Of week very hot; latter half some cool
er; threshing in full blast: yields vary
from light to heavy; stacking Is nearly
finished.
jackson (Preston)-Grain about all
cut and in shock: some stacking. but
very little threshing done: corn needs
rain; some cool nights.
Scott Davenport -Rain, .o3, or SO
inch less than normal; average daily
excess of Temperatures. IL degrees;
while corn has been damaged to q con-
siderable extent by the ,drouth, 1t IL
holding out remarkably well under the
unfavorable weather conditions; It 10
now generally in tassel; potatoes are
also standing the drouth fairly well. but
there is some complaint Of root lice:
threshing Of oats Ia general, but the
yield ts light: prospects for seed clover
are fine: pastures are. Of course. badly
burned out.
Iowa (Amana)-Rain, .02; threshing
Is in full progress now: the yield of all
small grain crops turn out we'll In quail
ity and quantity; rain is badly needed
for all growing crops.