IRRIGATION" IN FLORIDA. 
Orlando chart (fig. 4) shows very dry weather from the middle of 
October until the middle of July. The next drought of State-wide 
importance occurred in 1906-7, nine years after the one just men- 
tioned. Fort Myers shows only small showers from the middle of 
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at Orlando, Fla. 
September to the middle of May, a period of nine months. The 
Orlando chart shows dry weather from the first of August until 
the middle of June. The small rainfall shown in the charts for the 
spring and summer months for these years is not enough to be of 
lasting benefit, as the heat usually is excessive during these long 
droughts. The same drought, it will be noticed, occurred in Hypo- 
luxo (see fig. 1) although much less severe, lasting from the first of 
