Although general storms are expected by everyone, they are considered
an abnormal condition. Severity is seldom guarded against, which has
often brought much loss at lambing time. Such storms may compel you to
make many changes, depending upon their duration and severity. They will
test the quality of your endurance. Stay with the ship and save the
lambs. The necessary changing of position may make much extra work for
everyone. Necessity is the origin of achievement. With your persistent
patience, together with your best mental effort, you will come out of
the storm with most of the lambs, giving you the baa! baa! as their
thanks. As an illustration, perhaps the reader may pardon the following
true story: Some years ago while trailing two bands of ewes upon the
desert, we, by mishap, became short of camp water. However, necessity
strengthened our observing power, causing us to find a ledge of rock at
the side of which grew a few wild rose bushes. Here with no little
perseverance we dug until we found sufficient water for camp, making a
watering place for others where it was always thought impossible for
water to be. Who can say, had it been absolutely necessary to water the
sheep, also, that we might not have made a pump out of the stove pipe, a
handle out of the wagon tongue, a trough out of the wagon box, and with
this invention watered the two bands of ewes also? After many years of
close observation of weather conditions, during all seasons of the year,
we are able to give you valuable information upon the weather you may
expect SOME TIME during the seven days following any of the moon's
changes. We cannot say upon what exact date certain weather changes will
take place, but do state the weather that is most likely to predominate
during any of the moon's phases. When the new moon in any month comes in
upon his back, these storms will be more severe than when it comes in
standing up. The Indian had no powder horn. When the moon is moving from
south to north it seldom fails to bring warmth, while it hardly ever
fails to bring cold weather upon its return from the north. You should
have a reliable almanac, giving the exact time of each of the moon's
changes in the standard time of your locality. A storm-glass or
barometer will keep you posted 24 to 36 hours before any weather change.
This may save you lambs. This table can be used any part of the year,
allowing for snow in winter where the calculations foretell rain in
summer. If the new moon, first quarter, full moon, or last quarter come
in during the time given, the weather most likely to follow SOME TIME
during the next seven days will be as follows: