Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-04-17

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search as / will, cannot locate
place under the sun where there
is plenty of surface water and
groves profusely scattered over
the face of the earth but what
the rains come in abundance in
those localities, whether the
rains came on the desert earth
as plentiful /as it does now is a
question not hard to solve, espe-
cially by a man who has lived in
Central Kansas twenty, thirty or
forty years If science says that
it rains no more now than when
the earth was covered with buff
falo grass, then that scientific
truth must go back and be made
anew.
Be your faith as it may, it
costs but little to test the pro
position which re are advocat-
ing. 1t is useless for a few to
undertake to do the work, but
everyone who will help adds that
much toward success. I hope
and trust that there will not be
square mile in the county with
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reservoir if that could be ac-
complished, and then there would
not be a change in the climatic
conditions. 1 would confess that
my theory was not very good.
yet Ness county forms but a
small spot in comparison with
Western Kansas.
The spirit of this work how
ever, is covering more territory
than Ness alone Today there is
meeting being held in Cove
City for the purpose of organic
ing and getting into the work in
a systematic manner. Scott
county is taking it up in their
Farmers Institute, Hodgeman
and F'inney are busy with the
work. Lane county thinks she
will have more dams on the first
of May than will Ness. F'inney
county has the largest dam in
the West, the surface water Gov
erS three thousand acres and at
its deepest point is thirty feet.
This dam is built for two pur-
poses. to irrigate and to temper
the atmosphere. The Hon. Judge
Hutchinson of Garden City, in
forms me that many more dams
are being built: that many of
them are very large, that the
city is interested in some of
them and he expects even great
er results than your humble ser
want.
What | have said is not intend
ed to fight science nor to diScred-
! it in any way. What is intended
is to try to have people not watch
l science less but results more.
Science is changing all the time
by adding new discoveries. The
scientific facts are founded upon
proven results and as conditions
change these results, the facts
are changed accordingly.
1t is reasonable certainty
that on hot summer day with a
strong south wind blowing over
brown buffalo grass and dry
ground that the wind will be-
come hot, and just as reasonable
that if it must pass over a pond
in every mile travelled it will re
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just as certain that crops will
grow better in cool wind than
a hot one as it is certain that the
earth moves.
Another reasonable certainty
is, that if there is rain passing
our way and the ground is hot
and dry, or to speak more plain
ly, if rain clouds are passing the
conditions are not such as will
cause condensation to take place
and rain fall, but they will pass
over until they reach that part of
the earth that the atmosphere
will condense the vapor into wa
ter and rain fall. With ponds
and trees profusely scattered
over the surface, with growing
crops, the air will be kept in a
condition as to cause cOndenSa-
tion and rain will be the result.
You may take this as mere
assertion, but if you will recall
the last two years results you
can easily trace these state
mentS. | do not mean to state
that there are no exceptions to
| this general statement, there are
exceptions in natures works as
well as in artificial plans
Then let US put our shoulders
together and each do his part
and am sure good results will
follow. 1t is certainly encour-
| aging to Drint the names of those