The drouth was due, no doubt, to the frequent prairie fires which swept the country; these found birth in the camp-fire coals left by ignorant or careless settlers on their way in.
Season after season the half starved agricultural pathfinders lost their hard-earned crops by drouth and what was not burned out by the sun was eaten by ubiquitous gophers.
It had taken years of hardship and striving, fighting drouth and winter storm, preying wolves and preying men, to build the herd up to the point where profits were about ready to be enjoyed.
The drouthwas aggravating in its duration and growing hardships.
A drouth here doesn't mean anything to that water supply; I've been riding around over this country trying to show people that.
The country in New South Wales is good for farming and grazing; with the exception that it is subject to extremes of drouth and floods.
For two years there was a completedrouth visited the country.
True, at the time, the Tees was at lowest ebb; a long drouth had reduced it to a fourth its normal volume and of course we did not see the High Force at its best.
But the well is out of commission today--the longdrouth has affected the spring until for the second time in the last twenty-five years the phenomenon has ceased.
During May and a part of June of 1903, a drouth of unusual severity prevailed throughout the land.
Did the drouth destroy all their eggs and young, and did they know this and so come back to try again?
The long drouthwould be broken, but whether by natural change or so much firing Colonel Winchester did not know.
The extraordinarydrouth and the remarkable phenomenon of brooks drying up in Kentucky had continued.
The Hindus have covered their lands with temples raised to propitiate and deprecate the demons, and to invoke the deities against such sources of drouth and famine.
The great drouths caused the price of corn to fluctuate but the aggregate corn yield kept on increasing with increased acreage and usually the year following a drouth was one of superabundance of corn.
Last year, 1914, was an unfortunate one in that an early and late drouth caused poor bud development, and, of course, they were not in a condition to withstand our usual winter weather.
These, however, dropped during the extreme drouthof August.
In September the rains commenced, following the extreme drouth and started a second growth, and the freeze caught them November 22d as full of sap then as they were in September, when you were there.
The drouth killed his first crop, and the winter caught him in debt.
There are evidences written in the rings of these that they endured the drouth which made the famine in the days of Ahab the king, against which Elijah prayed.
It grows breast high, man high in the favoured regions; but even where under the influence of drouth and altitude it creeps to the knees, it abates nothing of its social character.
Drouth and a plague of locusts have almost ruined the rice crop in the Philippines, and the Indians are suffering from famine.
The existing drouth promised a good schooling for the brothers.
The drouthof 1886 left a gruesome record in the pastoral history of the West.
Then this drouth came on, and the offerings at Dodge are unfit for any purpose, except to restock ranches.
He was too foxy to borrow any trouble there, and this long yell about the drouth interfering with delivery dates keeps the trail outfits against the bits.
The army is just as well aware of this drouth as you are," said Forrest, "and the War Department will make allowances.
This drouth is liable to throw some bargains on that market.
Even the blight of summer drouth was toned and tempered by the shadows of evening.
The drouth might prove an ill-wind to some, but the Beaver valley was not only exempt but could extend relief.
They were thrifty, western Texas steers, had missed the drouth by coming into the trail at Camp Supply, and were all that could be desired in range cattle.
Drink draws a man nearer to heaven and multiplies the stars; and 'Drink when you can, the drouth will come' is my motto.
I have drunk me share and over when I was flush with tin, For the drouth without was nothin' to the drouth that burned within!
Her peas were the pride of her heart, and all Plymouth was admiring them, when the long drouth set in.
The drouth has parched my heart and dried up my courage.
When the usual summer drouth is past, livestock can again be turned into the field.
It stands shade and also drouth better than some other grasses, but is not at home in a poor or wet soil.
They cannot form far enough below the surface to withstand a drouth that may follow the wet weather.
Fall-plowing for a spring crop enables land to withstand summer's drouth if it gains in physical condition by full exposure to the winter's frost.
If a cover crop is plowed down late in the spring, the material in the bottom of the furrow makes the land less resistant to drouth because the union of the top soil with the subsoil is less perfect, and capillary attraction is retarded.
And every tongue thro' utter drouth Was wither'd at the root; We could not speak no more than if We had been choked with soot.
Its ability to resist drouth and overcropping and hard usage generally must be great, and I judge that many lawns and pastures would be improved by it.
The excessive drouth has almost completely destroyed it, and what little would have matured is laid waste by the frequent foraging parties of our own Army, or those of the Rebels.
The necessity of feeding not only the refugees, but to some extent during the winter the other Indians, has been recognized by all commanders, the drouth of last year having cut the crops very short.
The drouth was the main reason given; but, as Kile had very truly said, the settlers were getting pretty tired of the Indian exiles, whose habits were filthy and who were extremely prodigal in their use of timber.
In addition to the labor of transplanting saved by this plan, the great check that plants always receive when so treated is prevented, and also the extra risks that occur should a season of drouth follow.
If a season of drouth occurs when the cabbages have begun to head, the heads will harden prematurely; and then should a heavy rain fall, they will start to make a new growth, and the consequence will be many of them will split.
Cabbage can be raised with success on any good corn land, provided such land is well manured; and there is no more loss in seasons of drouth on such land than there is in seasons of excessive moisture on the lower tillage land of the farm.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was changed as with the drouth of summer.
If we could have a snow blanket come early and stay on late in spring, that would protect the plants, but we want the mulch also to protect from drouth and keep the berries clean.
It will give splendid results in heavy clay if well cultivated and if at the blooming season in case ofdrouth the plants are well watered.
Then it is that our garden is most beautiful, for we work in the garden of imagination, where drouth does not blight, nor storms devastate, where the worm never cuts nor the bugs destroy.
I have known some successful growers to take off all the mulch from the paths in spring and cultivate lightly but thoroughly, then replace the mulch to protect from drouth and to keep the berries clean, but I don't think it pays.
But if from drouth or some other cause they do not make a satisfactory growth, grow them two years.
The winter of 1899 was the worst winter drouth I ever knew; it killed every thing.
It wasn't peat, it was a heavy black clay and I had the best kind of strawberries, they came right through a tremendous drouth without any water at all.
Winter drouth often injures the roots and some lay it to insects.
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