38 KANSAS Academy of Science. 



The "Tables" consist primarily in tabulated temperatures and monthly rainfalls 

 predicted for each State. But in addition to these, and by their aid, Mr. Blake has 

 in a running commentary interpreted the figures, and with more or less definiteness 

 described what would be the main characteristics of the different seasons. Such of 

 these predictions as are expressed unconditionally are here given: 



1. "In January, 1889, there will be considerable steady cold weather, with a good 

 deal of snow, which will drift badly, probably causing numerous railroad blockades; 

 the mean temperature will be a trifle below normal." 



2. "The precipitation is to be large in January in most of the country, and much 

 heavier than usual in the Northwestern States." 



3. "On the Pacific coast the rains will continue much later in the spring than 

 usual." 



4. " In the western third of the State [Kansas] we think all crops should be planted 

 as soon as the cold snap is over in April. There will be no more cold weather after 

 that severe spell in April." Minimum temperature in April in eastern half of Kan- 

 sas will be 17°, mean temperature will be 50°, five degrees below the average. 



5. "We calculate that the summer will be a hot one in the Northern States. . . . 

 The temperature will be very hot in July and August in most every part of the 

 country." 



6. "We are quite confident that there will be no hot winds in Kansas before the 

 middle of August." 



7. "The unprecedented drouth of 1889." "Such a drouth as that of next sum- 

 mer will search out every nook and corner, scarcely leaving any green thing in large 

 parts of the country." 



"As will be seen by an inspection of the Tables, such will be the fate of most of 

 the Northern States next summer." 



"We gave ample warning of the drouths of 1886 and 1887, and now give warning 

 of the still greater drouth of 1889." 



"In Ohio and Michigan . . . the drouth will start in April and continue 

 without a break till the crop season is virtually over." 



New England and Middle Atlantic States: "In these States the drouth will 

 generally commence in June and be very severe in August and September." 



"In the Eastern States, as a rule, the drouth will be very severe." 



" Would that we were able to avert the horrors of the eastern, western and north- 

 ern sheol of 1889." 



8. "There will be very heavy rains in the Ohio valley in August and September, 

 amounting to floods in some places. ... It will be too late then to make a 

 crop." 



9. " There will be enough rain in a large part of Kansas to raise an immense 

 crop of corn if it is well put in on time, and thoroughly tended. In most of Kansas 

 it will be very favorable for potatoes, as well as most other crops." 



10. " East of the Rocky Mountains it will generally be too dry for that crop [po- 

 tatoes] in the Northern States, and in part of the Southern States it will be too wet." 



11. "Next year there will be frosts in September, but none in August in the 

 spring-wheat regions." 



12. "When wheat was selling for 80 cents at Chicago last summer, and we advised 

 our readers to sow a large crop of wheat in Kansas, telling them that it would be 

 worth .1:1.40 at Chicago next July, we were thought by some to be wild. But when 

 our readers inspect all the weather tables herein, they will not think our table of 

 prices is so very wild as it seems to be." 



