The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-24

An average rainfall in February is
very encouraging to all industries and
gives hopes for good crops in 1896.
The temperature is also promisin g,
except for southern early gardenip g
and the upper Missouri, where the
weather will be hard on live stock.
But il is the latter months that will
determine the general crops for 1896,
aud the turns in the weather will
bring many disappointments.
The only way to keep posted is to
read the newspapers containing my
weather forecasts. Careless reading
will do you no good. you must study
and understand these bulletins in or
der to be benefited by them.
One thing bear carefully In mind.
In applying my monthly forecasts
you may expect the result to run over
a little into the following or extend
back a little into the preceding mouth.
This was true Of December, 1895.
1t the actual temperature Of the
month only is included, the month
averaged warmer 10 northern portions
Of the United States than was pre-.
dicted, but by including three DAYS of
January the forecast and the monthly
average agree. Tho eastern portions
of Canada, however, averaged a little
warmer, and the southern portions of
the Pacific slope a little colder than
was expected.
CONTINENTAL ARIDITY.
The Pacific slope receives its mols-
ture principally from the Pacific
ocean, where it is evaporated by the
%dewnpour of dry air in the north Pa
cifc perpetual high, the center Of
which is about thirty degrees nearly
west of San Francisco.
The moisture is brought to the Pa
eifc slope by winds whose prevailing
direction on the coast is nearly paral-
ell with the coast, and therefore all of
California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah,
Idaho and the eastern parts of Color.
do and New Mexico must depend for
sufficient rainfall largely on the con-
dition of the countries northwest of
them.
Whatever will aid in holding mois.
ture will aid in rainfall and the pre-
vention of drouths and hot winds,
and these aids nust be general. The
whole of the North American CONT
nent, including Mexico, must adopt
similar measures before rain can be
properly distributed and local drouths
prevented.
Western Texas, Mexico and New
Mexico receive their moisture partly
from the Pacific and partly from the
Atlantic, the crest Of the Rocky
mountaia extension being the divid-
ing line.
East of the Rockies the humidity
comes almost exclusively from the
Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic ly.
ing Immediately east of 1t, whore tn
sea water is lifted by evaporation and
carried into the continent by the
north Atlantic perpetual high.
The central path of this moisture
laden air enters the continent be-
tween New Orleans and Galveston,
moves by way of the Black Hills,
Manitoba, the great lakes aud the
Gulf Of St. Lawrence, where it enters
the Atlantic coast.
This stream Of moisture cover
Mexico, all of the United States and
southern Canada that lie east Of the
Rocky mountain ere It, and from that
aerial river all the North American
continent mentioned is watered, and
whatever prevents that humid wind
river from precipitating or from gath
ering moisture on it's course affects
the rainfall of all the countries lying
east Of the Rockies, causing the
drouths and foods that do such vast
damage.
The American people must under
stand that the causes Of drouths and
foods extend to all North American
countries, that the remedies must be
cohtental extent, and therefore the
questions involved are international
as to this continent.
With our own countrymen irriga-
ton must become a national question,
because states cannot successfully
deal with the causes.
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regulate the world" said a genius. The
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