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rain at many western states amounting to hundreds of inches.

The dry eyele was maintained throughout a considerable por- tion of the past year, and it was not until the end of August that the dry mood was finally broken.

WHY THESE

FLOODS?

STILLS FROM WALT DISNEY'S SILLY SYMPHONY "NOAH'S ARK"

con-

A study of world-wide weather records inck to the middle of the eighteenth century THE 35 years' cycle is parti

cularly noticeable in shows that weather's greatest freaks of heat and cold, drought nection with rainfall. Not only have direct observations been THE WRONG SPIRIT and flood, have run in cycles, used in determining the exis- These cycles can be traced over As might have been expected, periods of 26.7 days, correspon- tence of this cycle, but such indirect data as the dates of the German reaction to the ing to the sun's rotation.

harvests, the height of inclosed proposals advanced by the seven, years, corresponding to

lakes, und even the Annual the mutation period: 11 years, Locarno Powers, aiming at a associated with the maximum growth in very old trees have lasting

of the and minimum frequency of sun- European problem, are anything spots, and 35 years--the well- but cordial.

Bruckner cycle of wet It is, indeed, known

and dry periods. difficult for the impartial obser- ver to avoid a feeling of dis- |******* appointment at the manner in which the situation has been approached. Whatever the juridical aspects of German POULTRY FARMING_ denunciation of the Locarno

seillement

it

been used.

By John Robinson

NOTES OF THE DAY periods of minimum sun-spot pressure over

vuo.

have now

than coincidence that the pre-

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Lest

rainfall to 36 inches.

this Contrast

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with

drought year of 1921

SIDE GLANCES. By George Clark

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WELL-KNOWN WEATHER

EXPERT

conditions,

In Great Britain the normal

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Observations show that the eleven years' sun-spot cycles has

anti-cyclonic a great influence on the world's

which means calm, dry and weather. We find that the

foggy weather in winter (some- driest an most brilliant weather has always occurred at to raise the normal barometrie times associated with intense while in summer the the continents frost),

the water friendly anti-cyclone brings the activity the summers of 1911, and lower it over 1921 and 1932 are instances in areas, expecially in the region brilliant sunshine and high the present century, while some of Iceland, which is the world's temperatures. During the past ten years the of the greatest floods on record greatest storm zone.

During the great British-Sequence of anti-cyclones and Pact may be, the outstanding output of British table poultry and came when large groups of fact is that Germany has put eggs has almost doubled; the sun-spots crossed the sun's sur floods in 1903-one of the wet- rain-bearing depressions are so balanced that people there do years on record-the

one type forward very definite and com-annual value of the produce of the face.

poultry farms in England and Not only in the East, but in number of Atlantic disturbances not experience any prehensive suggestions for the watea for 1934 being £21,250,000, places as far apart as India and which crossed the British Isles sufficiently long to suffer either a record. Rain from devastating drought or liquidation of the general in 1924 the production or eggs was Sweden, Africa and the United was almost

persistent uooding. after rain situation, and

system Britain and Australia, system is on 1,883,000,000; it is now 3,752,00.- States,

Not so, however, in the con- Last year the Reorganisa- observations have proved be followed with almost clockwork tinents of America and Aus- these that the Powers tion Commission on Eggs and

London's

tralia, where such phenomena should have chiefly concentrated. Poultry published a report propos vond doubt that rainfall and regularity, piling up Instead of that, they have ad- ing the centralisation of distribo sun-spots are closely related.

the do untold damage. It certainly seems to be more tion through packing-stations and

(when vanced proposals which they the fixing of a national price for

late years much study has must have known, from their eggs.

The important question of sent abnormally heavy rainfalls dopressions were few and far

been devoted to the probable contact with the German delega- competing imports, which repre- in the United States and those between) and London's total

clusive periods of continued wet |tions, would have been un- sent about one-third of tota. recently in Britain have been rainfall amounted to only 12.5 cause of weather "moods-those acceptable. So much is apparent supplies, was not dealt with in associated with intense sun-spot inches.

Whenever the British Isles and dry weather which seem to that report, and consequently activity.

are invaded by a succession of is a little known fact that the go on for indefinite periods. It from the fact that, immediately poultry keepers eagerly awaited

low-pressure systems from the longer a certain type of weather | Berlin's reaction became evident, the Commission's further recom-

DECENT meteorological obser- Atlantic, the rainfall goes up by continues, the longer it is likely it was

announced that the mendations. These

been published in a supplementary vations taken in America leaps and bounds. In most to go on-within reasonable proposed roference of the report. The new recommendations have led to the theory cases, a prolonged series of At limits. Franco-Soviet Pact to the Hague include un increase of aixpence per that the effect of sunspots lantic disturbances are followed the earth's weather is by a sudden and abrupt change Court was not an indispensable 120 on the existing duties upon on condition of the negotiations this increase,

foreign eggs; a new duty, equal to on Empire eggs; for a Rhineland settlement, und financial assistance to the homel that German objections to a egg industry from the duties on unilateral zone might be met by eggs and egg products; and the establishment of a Co-ordinating| the putting forward of an Committee which the various egy alternative proposal. The more and poultry marketing boards the position is studied, the would be required to consult. The

total amount of the duties, allow-; clearer does it become that there ing for a decrease of twenty peri has been concentration on "face- cent in imports, would be about saving" expedients, to the de- £1,300,000, and it is suggested that triment of a sensible solution of the whole problem. In particu- lar, the insistence on a neutral zone does seem unwise when analysed. It is suggested that measures of this kind are needed to preserve confidence during the period of negotiation on a long-range policy, but the occur

in any event. In these ordinary man will have difficulty circumstances, the zone proposni in perceiving the value of this could hardly be regarded by method of approach to the pro- Germany as anything other than blem. The underlying assump- part of a pin-pricking policy. tion is that German bona fides There is clearly only one way of are in question that there is a dealing with the situation, danger of German aggression namely, acceptance of the post- whilst efforts are being made to tion as it is to-day, and the reach a general settlement. A taking of immediate steps moment's thought, however, to negotiate on the basis of the should be sufficient to demons- German proposals. Nothing is trate two points-first, that to be gained indeed, much German re-occupation of the harm may be done by the pre-l Rhineland does not constitute servation of what the Germans any real danger, in view of the describe as the spirit of "the existence of France's elaborate accursed days of Versailles." system of frontier fortifications: There was never a greater op- and, secondly, that the small portunity than there is to-day international force which it was of working out a comprehensive intended should police the zone schome for the appeasemont of could not hope to be of real the European situation. If it is value in an emergency, which, lost by bungling at this junc- it is safe to assume, would not ture, it may never recur again.

quarter of this sum should be

allocated to a fund for the further development of the poultry Indus- try. The control of imports has been considered a necessary stop In the improvement of marketing

conditions owing to the large part which imports play in the poultry, industry.

""We can't possibly stay another week." "I've already worn overy- thing I have at least twice.”

run of five or six completely dry After we have experienced a

daya, the odds are in the region of five to one that the fine weather will not break down on the sixth or seventh days, and if the dry spell has continued for 15 days, the chances are nearly 20 to 1 that rain will not occur on the sixteenth day. Much the same thing applies to wet weather, After a week of persistent heavy downpours, we imagine that fine, settled weather must be very near at hand. Actually, however, the odds are heavily against a dry 24-hour period on the eighth day.

ence

This tendency to the persist- of any weather mood or type can be traced back to the earliest records. Sometimes a particularly wet mood-such as the present-goos on for several consecutive weeks, almost every day providing measurable rain-. fall.

Sometimes this tendency persistence of type affects one particular part of the coun- try, resulting in twice the nor- mal rainfall in that particular area, while other parts ex- perience normal rainfall, even a sub-normal allowance.

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THERE is no scientific reason to account for these peculiar weather moods. At the present time most of the United States is experiencing the wettest phase in recent history. Rain has fallen. on every day this month, a friend said on Sunday that San Francisco has had six weeks incessant rainfall, and there ap-: pears to be no end to the long chain of disturbances.