The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-12
BULLETIN
OF STORMS TO CROSS
TIE CONTINENT
G
HIGH TEMPERATURE WAVE
e.
Followed by a Cold Wave and n
Northern BlizZard-All Parts os
the Continent Will Feel the Ef-
feet OF This Great Winter Storm.

Washington, ID. c. Jan. IL
Last bulletin gave forecasts of dis
turbance to cross content JanuaBy
13 to II. warm wave II to 16, cool
wave Is to 10. General averages
of this disturbance temperatures
will be about normal. Not much
force to the storms till they reach
eastern sections. Not much pre-
cipitation anywhere but more east
of meridian 80 than west of 1t.
About normal precipitation west
Of Rockies.
The amount of winter precipi-
Itation is often of great Importance.
Shows protect the winter wheat
and we are not expecting much
snow during January. AS Jan
uary is expected to be warmer
than usual in the great central
valleys moisture will have an OPP
portunity to 90 into the soil in
large sections of the winter wheat,
area but our calculations do not
| indicate much rain for January.
Wherever the soil is not well
soaked with water at the begin
ming Of next crop season the pros
pect will not bggood for the early
maturing crops and the January
precipitation does not promise
the necessary moisture, particular
ly west Of meridian 90. Canada IS
promised better precipitation in
January than the States.
Next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about January Is,
cross Pacific slope by close of 10,
great cehtral valleys 20 to %,
eastern sections %. Warm wave
will cross Pacific slope about Jan-
uary rs, great central valleys 20.
eastern sections %. Cool wave
will cross Pacific slope about Jan
uary q, great central valleys %,
eastern sections 25.
This will be a radical storm
from coast to coast. A great high
temperature wave, followed by a
cold wave and a noishern blizzard
All parts Of the continent VIII feel
the effects of this great winter
storm and very changeable wealth
er will continue to end OF Jan
uary.
false theories about vegetable
physiology are the evil genn OF
agriculture We are yet in the
dark ages of plant life and hold
to the same idea as to do the Hot
; tentots about vegetation getting
| its food from the soil direct. What
ever is volatile and evaporates
from the soil and goes into the
atmosphere may become plant
food but the roots Of plants
never take plant food from the
soil.
Plants take all their food from
, the top surface Of the leaves, eX.
hale the gases through the under
surfdces Of the leaves, do not eX.
crete anything but deposit the
solid substance in the body OF
plants and the rotts conduct the
electrical force into the earth.
If the soil becomes dry it will
not conduct the electrical force
3 into the earth and therefore the
necessity Of moisture. Clay soils
will produce evegetation if it con
tains plenty Of moisture but clay
is not as good an electric conduct
! or as vegetable mold an dthat Is
the difference between clay anC
the dark soils.
; As a remedy for clay fields tha-
) have but little of the vegetable
molds we are advocating the
} punching of holes in the clay 81
3 hold the moisture instead sof deeI
plowing Of the clay. We believe
that by this means the abandoned
: clay fields may be returned t.
: fertility. This could be tested il
: abandoned fields without plantin!
grain or cotton. Punch holes il
parts of the field leaving othe
> parts as they are in the abandoned
state. Then let the growth of TIL
weeds determine whether punch
: ing holes in the clay is a benefit
1 IF this scheme will work SOM
0 one will invent machine for tn
: purpose. This machine may b.
: used with or without blowing tn
1 clay fields. The machine coult
6 be run after the plow Then tn
8 loose plowed clay would loosel,
: fill the holes but they would still
3 hold sufficient moisture.