Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-01

with the last part of this and the first
part of next month. The cold period
also sometimes covers parts OF two
months. as will be the case with July
and August of this year.
These cold and warm periods do not
occur in the same part of the month
in two succeeding years, and these
changes cause the weather pc0biemS
with which the human race has 10
deal. 1t is the riddle of the ages, be-
cause the sun. moon and planets each
have a separate influence, through
magnetic lines, on our weather.
The effort has. been to find recur-
ring periods, but this is impossible,
because the total effect OF planetary
influences varies as often as you can
vary the relative positions of ten bod
les or figures. Therefore, recurring
periods cannot be found, because the
sun, moon and planets have not 0c-
cupied the same relative positions
twice in the historic times.
In next bulletin will be given agen-
eral forecast of February weather,
and my February charts will be sent
free to all subscribers of this paper
why remit 2-cent stamp.
HOT WINDS.
Wherever drouths occur hot winds
are experienced, varying in different
localities from heated puff of NOV
ing air to the steady blow of con-
tinuOus hot wind.
These hot winds occur southeast
ward of the low or storm center, and
the wind usually blows around the
center of the low, contrary to the
movements of the hands of watch
when the latter is placed face up
wards
A number of causes take part i'm
forming these crop destroying hot
winds and the first cause is the lack
of moisture in the soil. A very dry
atmosphere more rapidly evaporates
the moisture from and kills vegeta-
tiOn, and so long as there is sUtfi-
cheney of moisture in the soil the air
cannot become dry. Then hot winds
never get enough to kill vegetation
when there is sutficiency of moist
ure in the atmosphere.
From the above facts it may readily
be seen that the remedy for dr0uth
and for hot winds must be found in
supplying the soil with moisture, be-
cause if the air cannot be supplied
with moisture from the soil, lakes,
rivers, ETC., it will take the moisture
out of vegetation and destroy it.
An Investigation of this subject by
the Kansas State Board of Agricul-
ture in 1891, established few i'm
portant facts, among which is the
very important one that hot winds
never occur in the vicinity of timber
If timber will prevent hot winds in
Kansas it will prevent drOuths in any
country, and timber can be grown in
any desert, where there is clay sub
soil, by undertow irrigation. Dig
ditch about three feet deep with It's
bottom on a water level, fill in with
gravel, broken stone, broken brick or
corncobs, about eight to twelve inches
in depth and diameter, cover with
clay or soil web tamped and plant the
trees on the filled mp ditch. Every
tree thus planted will stand as sem
tinel against the hot winds and
neglect to plant trees in the coming
spring will invite the destroying hot
winds.
SelfishneSs is the handspring to
human as well as animal activity, and
when the people of the Ohio valley
can be made to see that tree planting
and undertow irrigation in Colorado
will prevent drOuth in Ohio as well
as in Colorado, they will become in
terested in forestry for every part Of
our country.
/ am thoroughly convinced that the
causes that bring drouthS and hot
winds are cosmopolitan, general, and
their remedies must be general. We
must cease to look upon aridity as of
local character; it is cOntine ntal
question, and whatever will rem edy
this drOuth evil in one locality on the
North American continent will have
an effect for good in every other part
of the continent.
Mexico, Canada and the United
States should work together against
floods and drouths. Their causes are
not only OF continental extent, but
are correlative, for that which brings
drOuth in one locality causes floods
in other parts of the continent.
The low barometer gathers the
moisture and these eastward drifting
lows lose most of their humidity in
crossing the Rocky mountains, cauS-
ing very heavy rains between the
Northern Rockies and the North Pa
cific coast. For this reason the air in
the lows, on reaching the eastern
slope of the Rockies. is dry, and,
therefore. in condition to take up a
vast amount of water.
The air that comes down in the
high barometers is dry and on reach
ing the SOIL or sea, or vegetation,
rapidly evaporateS whatever moisture
it touches.
The principal high which evapor-
ates moisture for the North American
continent covers the Southeastern
states, it's center being far out on tIae
Atlantic east of Florida. When this
permanent high swings westward it
draws its moisture principally from
the Southeastern cotton states, and iii
the moisture there is deficient the
eastward moving low does not obtain
the necessary moisture and asa result
all the Northern and Eastern States
experience deficiency of rainfall.
In these cases If Mexico or the arid
countries west of the Mississippi were
supplied with moisture the Ohio val
ley and other parts of the Eastern
states would not have a drOuth