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Compounding the misery of the muggy weather was th/si fact that the average daytime highs in July were five degrees higher than last year, nights a degree cooler, for a net gain of four degrees hotter. Tuesday the temperatures had climbed past 80 degrees by noon and Wingfield said he supposed the “hot will suck all the rain we did get right out of the ground.”
Wingfield commiserated with high-technology farmers of today. Agriculture has become a major industry and yet those who work with the soil must still stare at the sky and say, “Rain, where are you?”
One of them is orchardist Sam Snead. He says if the dry spell doesn’t stop before September, he could have some crop size problems. Snead says he doesn’t have a lot of voune
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