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Show Kansan Says lie Predicted Drouth 'Cycle9 PRATT, KANS. The dry cycle is here again just as Fred Reece predicted 11 years ago in an article arti-cle in the Pratt Daily Tribune. Recently Fred dug out the old article he had written in 1034 under the title, "Sun Spots." And then he sat down and wrote another one, in which he stated: "In my 1934 article I noted that observations over almost a century showed these increased sun spot outbreaks occurred at fairly regular regu-lar intervals of about HVj years. Nobody No-body knew why or if that rate would continue. But on thfe theory that It might continue, 1 ventured that 194G might find us in the midst of another series of dry years. That year is here; the sun tornadoes are here, perhaps a bit late but they started their upsurge more than a year ago. Last year's wheat crop was not much afFoctcd, probably because be-cause we have learned to conserve moisture. This year's crop hangs in the balance between good subsoil moisture and a hot, dry. blowing surface. Maybe the memories of the dust bowl days of the '30s will enable you to guess the next two or three. , |