CONCERN IN CANADA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 143, 21 June 1927, Page 9

CONCERN IN CANADA

NO SUMMER PREDICTION

(From "The Post's" Representative.) VANCOUVBE, Ist June. The prolonged nature of tho winter —anow still falls in flurries on the prairies, although we are approaching the. summer equinox—is causing a good deal of anxiety in regard to the 1927 wheat crop. In addition, it has given rise to serious speculation as to whether the year 1927 will witness any summer at all.

Some months ago tho Indians noticed signs that to them indicated clearly Iliat this year would be summeness. Little note was taken of their prediction, but it receives added force now from the assertion of Professor Brown, a United States scientist, that 1927 is going to bo as 181G, which was a year without a summer. In that year ice had to bo broken throughout the summer period in Illinois to water the horses, and oats, hay, and fodder had to be imported from Groat Britain for the cattle.

There is a controversy raging in public at the moment on the subject. One authority says that astronomy discounts all predictions about weather, except for a week or ten days ahead. However, the disquieting nature of tho weather, both in Canada and tho United States, has given weight to tho predictions of tho no-summer group. Grain exchanges and other bodies are watching the weather with increasing concern. Seeding has not been general on the prairies, although it is thirty days lator than the seeding time of 1920. The "Manitoba Free Press," tho "farmers' Bible" on matters relating to wheat production, is at some pains to nllay the anxiety that is being shown by tho wheat-growers.

The sunspot, its theory and effect, is a. subject of discussion that grows warmer. Dr. Plaskott (Canadian Observer) says that ho has an open mind on the. question. There have been many attempts to connect tho weather and changes in the sunspots, but nothing, he says, has yet been proven to his satisfaction.

Word has como from Northern Siberia that the natives of Arctic villages, fearing that angry gods have decreed that there shall be no summer in 1927, arq killing scores of precious reindeers for sacrifices. Just now it is abnormally cold, the warmest temperature being 35 degrees below zero.