Word: drought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Department of Agriculture experts began to devise ways & means of wangling the $15,000,000 surplus from the 1931 drought appropriation for use in the 'hopper...
Ducks are scarce this year, chiefly because drought has dried up their breeding grounds (see p. 26). But there may be more subtle causes...
...Drought, storms, insects, germs fluctuate from year to year. The biologists sought some common cause for the variations. The ten-year cycle is too regular to be accidental...
Reason for the duck scarcity is continuing drought, which has dried up the sloughs and ponds in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana, chief North American breeding-places for ducks. Several yards from a marshy place on the prairie, the mother-duck builds her nest, lays in it from ten to 18 eggs. When these hatch, she leads the ducklings immediately down to the water. In ordinary times, duckling mortality is high. Turtles, hawks and even large fish consume many. In drought times mother & brood may find no water at all and so perish...
...Winnipeg, Man., Chief Buffalo Bow of the Northern Saskatchewan Indians was distressed by the prolonged drought. He mustered his braves, organized a rain dance to invoke the Great Spirit. Thereupon it rained for two days...