Show Wet Cycles Follow Drouth For Fora a period variously estimated at from seven to eleven years this area has suffered from a along 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 in this part of the United States have felt it We jump from extreme to extreme in our judg judg- ments We jump from drouth to wet season hardly waiting to see ii if the mood of of- Nature is lasting or a amere amere amere mere The papers are full of rains in California California California Cal Cal- our state has also had them the oldest oldest oldest old old- est residents wrack their memory to find another year like it it- it with such ample rains The farmers cant can't get gt on their land laId 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 in rented water at prevailing prices It is too early to say how long this mood of Nature Nature Nature Na Na- ture may last It is too early to say that now follows follows follows fol fol- fol- fol lows a wet series series- though we all wish it and aId hope it will prove so Our judgment is actuated by a 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 come comein comein comein in to the betterment of our water supply |