Show I Wet Cycles Follow Drouth f. f For Fora a period variously estimated at from seven to eleven years this area has suffered from a long- long continued drouth The amount of stored water for farmers has been under the amount they once had crops have suffered because of that lack of water and generally all agricultural areas reas in in this part of the United States have fen felt it We jump from extreme to extreme in our judg judg- ments We jump from drouth to wet season hardly waiting to see if the mood of Nature is lasting or a amere mere The papers are full of rains in Calif California Cal- Cal if our state has also had them the oldest oldest oldest old old- est residents wrack their memory to find another i year like it it- it with such ample rains The farmers cant can't get on their land so wet is it In the last rain one farmer said that had his forty acres been ready for it that rain would have saved him one hundred dollars water at prevailing prices It is too early to say how long this mood of Nar Nature Nature Na- Na r ture may last It is too early to say that now follows follows follows fol fol- lows a wet series series- though we all wish it and hope it will prove so Our judgment is actuated by a aI I wish We want it it- it hence it must be so The benefits of the rainy season have so far outweighed outweighed outweighed out out- weighed any deleterious effects Cycles do come and go Apparently one follows another Let us hope that the following cycle is beginning to comein come comein in to the betterment of our water supply |