The Caucasian., 1913-08-17
FOSTERS BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
THE CONTINENT
THE NEXT DISTURBANCE
Will Tend Toward Higher Temper
atures and Drier Weather-Warnl
Wave August II to 21-Cool Wave
20 to PA Dry September.

copyrighted 1913 by w. t. Foster.)
Washington, D. C. Aug. 16.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts Of disturb
ance to cross the continent August
18 to %, warm Wave IL to 21, cool
wave 20 to "a. This storm wave will
tend toward higher temperatures
and drier weather, just when the
corn crop will need most rain, but,
as the old adage would say, it is a
poor wind that blows nobody good.
Dry, warm weather will be best for
the spring wheat country, both for
maturing late crops and threshing.
| The July rains gradually pro
gressed southWard, giving some
much nededamoisture to the cotton
states, but we expect the heat ana
drouth also to progress southwark
and that cotton will get similar dam
age, late in August, to that which
corn received early in the month.
Indications are that September
will be warm and dry. That will
hold back the northern frosts and
be favorable to late northern crops,
but will be hard on late top growth
Of cotton and will not put the soil
in good condition for fall grain
sowing.
Next disturbance will reach Pa
cific coast about August %, cross
Pacific slope by close Of %, great
central valleys "a to 26, eastern sec
tions 27. Warm wave will cross Pa
ciflc slope about August %, great
central valleys "a, eastern sections
26. Cool wave will cross the Pacific
slope about August %, great central
valleys 81, eastern sections 20. This
will cause warm, dry weather, bad
for cotton and late corn. Weather of
last part of August will be favorable
only to northern spring wheat. All
lother crops and crop weather will
not be the kinds that most please
the farmer.
AS the hay crop is generally short
land the oats crop generally poor and
the corn crop prospects not the best,
we expect to see. all grain remain
high with a probability Of going
| higher.
We have advised farmers to. hold
their grain, and that advice has
proved good. But it is not best tc
hold too long. When you are salts
fed as to the effect that August
weather will have on the corn crop
you can calculate as to the best time
| to sell. The big spectators usually
put the prices Of grain down in the
fall. To determine when to sell your
lsurplus products requires good
Judgment and careful calculations
| These bulletins will continue to
give advice on buying and selling
grain and cotton, planting and SOW
ing all kinds Of crops, the safest
times for voyagii9g, the times Of the
greatest danger5sfrom destructive
storms, cold waves, deep SHOWS and
floods. OF course we can not always
be correct, but it will pay to follow
our advice better than to follow
your own unscientific guesses.
Heretofore we have not been able
Ito advise as to the sowing of fall
grain, but we have overcome the
difficulties and will be able to give
valuable advise hereafter, particu-
larly as to the winter grain in the
plains states. When those farmers
imnne edlately east Of the. Rockies can
be accured Of good wheat crops they
will produce enough during good
years to tide over the bad crops.
Peterman for Congress.
Hon. W. I. Peterman has an
nouneed himself for Congress. He