Show ii HOT WEATHER SCARE Scorching Winds in the Greal Plains Endanger Corn Crop Sioux City la In Au Aug 10 I Hot l wind winit the past two days following a n weel wed C Cof of or unusual torridity the time maximum t temperature being daily from 00 90 t le to has lias created time the fear anmon among grain men that widespread d damage tt tu lato late grains anti and corn cOIn has been done Today has been a scorcher although 1 there thele arc are indications tonight of or r 1 It let up l From western South Dakota western western west west- ern crim Nebraska ka the time north central contral par pall t of oC South Dakota and southern rh Minne 1 Minnesota sota the lie reports today aro arc that laic lab S grains have been heen ripened so 0 rall l lh that t the berries are badly shrivelled The Time greatest l harm Is expected in Iii the thu lii 1 cornfields which have not in ten years cars according to 10 reports a week ago aso S promised such abundant yields Corn is In him the tender tassel with th the 0 kernel in iii the most sensitive stage stase o olits ol of I its life lire Where the moisture has beer been the he damage c will vilI ho light but In a vast territory we west t and northwest northwest north north- west from here it has been dry for foi r two or three weeks and antI when the hot hol t winds came the thu vegetation h had d been beem a largely robbed of or its power o of resist resist- ance amice Good authority places the depredation depreciation de tie predation in ho tho corn crop as the tIme result result re re- ref sult suit of or the time last week of or fierce hen heat f at from live fie to o ten per cent on tim the C average with a much greater loss over ove r various vailous extensive regions |