RAIN
Across the Fence
BY Arvord Abernethy
About the middle of last week, I began to believe some of these predictions of a cold winter ahead were true. These old boys who have seeing wooly worms with an extra coat of wool and the fellows who have noticed that the hair on the north side of their dog was thicker than on the other side may have something. If we could only get a good rain along with these cold fronts, that would be great.
I was up at the Soil Conversation office the other day talking with Bill Lewis and he said that the front last week only dumped .35 inch of rain to bring our year’s total to 23.39 inches. The average rainfall through November is 27.09 inches, so we have got a lot of catching up to do. With about .10 inch falling in August, none in September and .70 inch in October, it is going to have to get busy to bring us up to normal. These good rains we received in the spring and early summer were our life savers this year. We have lived through some mighty dry years in the past and we can do it again.
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by Roy Ables
