Show all ales As A told to lo ELMO FRANKE FRANK E od SCOTT HAGAN I 1 WATSON beating the drouth TT T WAS the drouth ear of 1934 day after day the sun blazed down froin boiu a cloudless sky 1 scorching winds blew across the watern we wi tern plains wells went lily and risers fliers became mere trickles klo down in Okla oklahoma howa al A Goti gotilieb leb owner of at the J 1 I ranch looked at his bis heril herd of IJO pi line ime steers they were ere glowing eiery day because they would not dot eat the brown dry graso grasa onlea lie he could fatten them lie he was ruined one day clay a peddler stopped at the ranch better buy a pair of these green goggles to protect your ees ee ironi from the lie klare glare of the son gun he said the ranch ranchman nian took one bile look 1001 through them then exclaimed ilow how soon can you get nie me as more pairs A week later the llie wi 48 pairs arrived the tilted them on his steers they saw broad fields of rich green gross grass find and bexan began to graze eager ly lint but when it came time to drink from the i her they refused animal instinct told them that gheen water Is often poisonous onous there was only one tiling thing to do and the ranchman did it A telegram brought more palls pain of goggles only this time the lenses lense in them were ere blue of mine course it was waa a lot ot of trouble to change the gogah s first green then blue then green then blue etc oo on steers every day but that fall all the jl JR J R steers topped the kansas city market because they were in ili such prime condition C stern union |