Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-04-25

minds ma that one extreme usually
follows another ana that for greatest
safety the law of average can be our
only guide. This law of averages
puts nearly halt of Oklahoma wcst
ot the thirty inch rainfall meridian
as being practically the line. The
average annual rainfall for Oklahoma
city for the last twenty-five years,
shows TO be little less than thirty
one inches A thirty inch rainfall
MAJ mean fifteen Inches one year
and forty-flye the next This is about
the way II was divided for the years
Of 1907 and 1902 AZ El Reno, prac-
tically on meridian 9S, the records for
the last thirty years shows one
stretch Of five successive years with
a rainfall which averaged less than
twenty three inches for each of the
five, How far these short years cN-
tended east ! have no records TO show
but the chances are that they were
felt across the entire state just AS the
last four years have been. Just
statement of the rainfall for year
Is not always a reliable indication OF
the crop yields for that year, Many
times the rainfall in oklahoma is
more irregular than short. That is,
the rainfall taken as a whole may
show to be normal, but the ill-timed
distribution Of ii may have reduced
the crop yields of that year a. ne
minimum, This was the case in 1911,
and repeated again in some localities
IN 1912, In 1911 the total amount
of the rainfall Of the year was near
the average, but two-thirds Of il
came in the last five months when
II should have come during the first
seven. This irregularlty in rainfall
bringing one good year and then
bad one, or two good ones and a
bad one, and then four of a Kind as
We have just had has kept eyery
body see-sawing, wondering what was /.
going to come next Finally it oc- |
CURED To some one to make a study /
Of the rainfall Of the past Records I
for forty years at Ft sill and for .
thirty years at Gl Reno, completely /
exploded the Idea OF a permanent IN
crease in rainfall and held out no
hope for return series OF such good |
years as 1905, 6, and s, Within the
last four years much prejudice and !
arstocratic agriculture has been
a1 hAt ,,fip,
who persistently refused to insult
their hundred dollar land with the
growing of such "A trough neck' crop
as kafir corn have been forced to in
suit their hank acCouut with checks
TO pay for feed 10 feed the teams
that we have been Jared loose from
a few traditions, common sense and
safe business are asserting thcm-
selves. We are admitting the truth
about Oklahoma and swearing that
the truth is good enough. With this
spirit the campaign has been launched
and the conquest of drouth in Okla
homa" is now on. The first great
battle was won in 1912, when the
acreage of kafir corn and other sure
feed crops made a grain Of more than
300 per cent over that in 1911. The
full force of this fact Is not felt un-
Ill you know that for the same year
he acreage of kafir corn in Kansas
made a gain of only per cent. With |,
he spoils from this victory we paid
he feed bill of S25,000000 for 1911
md had enough left to feed the
cams and start again in the live
tock business. To do this We neith-
,r invoked the aid of science nor ,
made any new discoveries We just
luit bucking the law of nature in
ryng to grow a crop which nature /
lever intended should be grown in ,
he south, west Of meridian 9S. Ok
ahoma has law against Johnson !
grass and Russian thistle, but the
possible damage from these crops
to the case which could ,
e made by the farmers of the south
Sest against corn, dwindles into in
ignificance. Though thousands have ,
allen into line, this conquest has just ,
egun. We have made a fine start I
nd will double the acreage again this ?
ear But much OF the real problem | /