Show kansan says he predicted drouth icycle 9 PRATT KANS the dry cycle Is here again just as aa fred reece neece predicted 11 years ago agoan in an article in the pratt dally daily tribune recently fred dug out the old article he had written in 1934 under the title sun sua spots and then he sat down and wrote another one in which he stated in my 1934 article I 1 noted that observations over almost a century showed these increased sun spot outbreaks occurred at fairly regular intervals of about 11 years nobody knew why or it if that rate would continue but on the theory that it might continue I 1 ventured that 1946 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 the they y started their upsurge more than a year ago last years wheat crop was not much affected probably because we have learned learne dAo to conserve cont erve moisture this years 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 will enable you to guess the next two or three |