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Show FARMERS LEAVE j THEiRMNCHES , Despair of Making Livelihood j i' on Land With No Rain ! t for 36 Months. j t DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 31. (Mail.)- i ; A strange procession of canvas-cover- r , ed wagons, drawn by mules, for more I ' f ' than a month has been creeping out of . , west Texas with farmers and ranchers j i who havo despaired of trying to make , a livelihood on tho land that has. been j f ' parched under a blazing sun and has j r ' seen virtually no rain for thirty-six h months. 8 The emigrants from this particular B h . section have turned their faces toward f h the cotton fields -of eastern Texas and f , t j Oklahoma, where. Avork for all can g J jj I easily bo obtained. In some parts of jj j j tho west Texas district, dusk finds as I L I many as a dozen of these emigrant S , camps in a single mile. Hip From the Panhandle and the north- u r ; era section of the state come reports ' ! that similar caravans, reminiscent of ( f I half a century ago, mar the exodus of f P farmors from thoso districts who aro I ' moving toward Colorado and farther j h west. 1 r The war has played its part with th 1' departing homesteader, but lack of ' fc . rain has been the real factor. Most of 1 B ! the settlers havo been on laud rented l e ' from the state. Some have spent years ' 8 of labor building up their herds and 1 : others have been working the land into a profitable state of cultivation. 1) i But the drought came and the cat- i p jUe died in numbers and those that j , 1 , did not die were too weak to bear l j, young. Livestock men said the calf -i I crop in west Texas this year was a , failure. , f Some settlers had accumulated ; enough money to travel while others F I borrowed money with which to make ! j their departure. In many cases the war 1 j added to the tragedy by taking away i I i young men whose strength might have ,( made it possible for farmers to hold on L ! until rain came. ' t The country which, the settlers .aro f 1 leaving is that w'est and north of Fort 1 Worth and Dallas, ranging as far wes.t , t as tho state boundary and south of tho ! L Panhandle counties. In the Panhandle ; i . there were rains in the spring agd oc- casional showers later that kept" grass f' j with which to feed the cattle. i h |