The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-31

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| That is in the sixty-two days of July
and August there have been twelve days
when there was rain. with unusually
cloudy conditions in the interim natur-
ally.
The intervals between rains during the
month furnished interesting material.
The first interval was of five days, and
was broken by big rain.
The second interval was of three days
and was broken by a big rain.
The third interval was of nine days,
from July to July IS, and was ended by
small fall of Observation-Disclosures of
an inch. This, however. was Immediately
reinforced
The fourth interval was of one day at
the end of which Observation-Disclosures of
an inch fell.
The fifth interval lasted five days when
twenty of an inch fell.
The sixth interval lasted three days,
when on July p, twenty hundredths of an
inch fell The smaller rains from July 3
on to the end of the month of July
aggregated only seventy humid
redths of an inch, but they made the
dryness followed them ~ once. Twice
during the two months there were in
tervals of twelve days without rainfall.
The first, from July q to August s, was
more severe than the one that followed
because it followed these small rains.
But without the same small rains the
dry stretch would have been ruinous on
the corn.
The seventh interval lasted twelve days
and was broken by one of the big rains Of
the summer, 2.4s inches, on August s.
The eighth interval was the second
long one of twelve days. but it was with
out peril because it started from a big
rain and ended with the greatest down
pour of the summer. $50 inches. on
August 20.
The ninth interval lasted two days. end
ing with fall of ten-hundredths Of an
inch
The tenth interval lasted one day and
ended with a fall of twenty
redths Of an inch.
The eleventh interval lasted seven days
and was broken by fall of % Of an
inch
So September is reached with the
ground thoroughly wet and ideal condi-
tons prevailing for fall blowing. The
immense corn crop. because Of the vari-
ance in the planting-time was helped up
to the very last. If any field Of corn
failed 10 produce heavily. other than rain
conditions were TO blame. In some in
stances early cultivating was prevented
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maximum yield. But it has been a corn
summer. There was moisture at the
start. moisture TO invigorate the pollen,
moisture at the snking period, moisture
in the cob period. moisture in the filling
period. and perfect weather for the
maturing of the grain.
The rainfall in no two spots has been
exactly alike. There have been rains
in the county which Wichita did not get.
and Wichita has had some rains that
parts OF the county did not get. But
upon the whole, the different parts %
the county viii average alike.
In the last six months the rainfall. as
registered in Wichita. has been pro-
6igious. Since March /. last. over thirty
inches Of rain have fallen.
The past summer has not been a com
Portable one, by any means. The humidity
has made comparatively low tempera-
lures oppressive. and when the mercury
mounted above 100 degrees. the effect was
insuferable. Recently in the Eagle It
was declared that August had been
cool month. DIT. Johnson said yesterday
that it had not been cool; that it had
been emphatcaIy hot; that IL had aver
aged two and one-half degrees a day
hotter than the usual August.