The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-05
FOSTERS BULLETIN
FORECAST OF STORMS TO CROSS
/ THE CONTINENT
THE NEXT DISTURBANCE
The Temperatures Will Average
Colder than Usual-SnOW i'm the
North and Cold Rain i'm the South.

North and Cold Rain i'm the South
copyrighted 1913 by w. +. Foster.
Washington, ID, c., Jan. i.-Las
bulletin gave forecasts of disturb
ance to cross the continent Jan. tC
ii, warm wave 6 to 10, cool wave
to t3. This storm wave will average
cooler than usual but it's warm wave
will bring one OF two days of warm
er than usual weather. Not much
precipitation east of the Rockies
Some local SHOWS in northern sec
tions and cold rains IN southern
parts east of Rockies. Precipitation
will be heavier west of Rockies.
The next disturbance viii reach
Pacific coast about Jan. IL, cross Pa
cific slope by close of l3, great cen
trail valleys IA to 16, eastern sections
II. Warm wave will cross the Pa
citic slope about Jan. u, great CEN
trail valleys Ii. eastern sections t6
Cool wave will cross Pacific slope
about Jan. Is, great central valleys
II, eastern sections 10.
Temperatures of this disturbance
will average about normal but The
cool wave preceding it will be much
colder than the cold wave following
it. Not much precipitation east of
the Rockies. About normal precipi-
tation west Of Rocky ridge. At that
time a great high temperature and
severe storm wave will be on north
Pacific south of Alaska moving
eastward Next bulletin will tell
more about it. That storm wave will
be of interest and you should no.
fail to read about ii and be pre-
pared for it.
During the crop season of 1918
some parts OF the crop growing sec
tions of this continent east OF. the
Rock ridge will suffer with severe
drouth and serious question pre-
sents itself to every farmer, planter
and truck grower Ii is a we'll known
and admitted fact that sufficient
precipitation occurs every year to
produce good crops if the moisture
could be held in the soil. That prob
lem must be solved. Where the soil
is very deep and not resting on clay
the sail will absorb the moisture,
take care of itself, and~there seems
to be no remedy against severe
drouths except irrigation bitches.
All sections where these deep soils
predominate and where the 1913
drouths are expected should get
their irrigation bitches in shape for
business.
But the thinner soils that rest on
beds of clay have other remedies.
Agrlculturists are generally favor
able to deep fall blowing, and that
method is fair, particularly for fiat
lands. But there are. difficulties that
are not overcome by that method.
Deep plowing in clay lands is not
easily accomplished, and on rolling
lands the washing away of fall
ploWed lands is a serious damage.
1t, instead of trying to run a plow
through clay lands to IL inches
deep, you could punch holes into
the clay IL or more inches deep in
The fall OF early spring, those holes
would hold the moisture and you
would avoid the washing away of
your plowed up soil.
But there is no machine for that
purpose, and if this method is
found to be practical some one
must invent the machine. A three-
wheeled vehicle. one big heavy
wheel in the middle and one on eacn
'ide to hold the big wheel in place.
The iron pins like harrow teeth t2
o IA inches long, 2 inches in diam
ter at the shoulder, tapering to a
,Oint, jointed or hinged near where
hey fasten to the big wheel so that
IS the wheel turns gravity will keep
he pins perpendicular in order that
hey go straight down into the soil
md pull straight out, making a
ound hole and not an oblong one,
would seem to answer the purpose.
t should be made for two horses.