The record-union., 1891-03-10
WEEKLY CROP BULLETINS.
The Popular System win be Resumed
by the Signal Service.
A New Collecting Station VIII be Es.
tablished In Southern
California.

Sergeant Barwick, the local Signal Serv-
ice officer, announces for the benefit of
the farmers, and others interested, that
the publication of the weekly crop bull
letins, which were inaugurated and made
so popular last year, will be resumed
shortly.
Owing to the lively interest taken in
the matter by people living south of the
Tehachapi Pass, the Sergeant determined
to give the Southerners better service
than he did last year, and corresponded
with the Chief Signal officer at Washing
ton with reference to the matter.
The following correspondence will
give the public an idea Of the thorough
spirit with which the officers at Washing
ton have entered into the Sergeants plan:
SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, March L. 1881.
Sergeant James Il. Bd,1otck, Signal Cofrs,
Sdcrane:lto Cui.-SIR: Referring to you ter
OF the 10th ultlmo suggesting that the OH
server at Los Angeles, CAT, be directed to col
lect reports and issue q crop bulletin for
Southern California, / would say that instruc-
tions have been issued to Sergeant George Z.
Franklin, at Los Angeles, directing him to re-
ceive at his station reports from such crop re-
portefs as you may designate, arrange and
summarize the same, forward TO you as early
on each Saturday as possible telegram of not
more than forty words. giving q summary of
the weatheT-crop conditions in that section
and to prepare and give TO the press of Los
Angeles bulletin of the reports received. The
telegram forwarded to you should be made n
part of your bulletin and of the information
contained in your telegram to this Office.
1t is thought that this arrangement will
prove more satisfactory than 10 organize n
separate crop service in Southern California
BY this means the desired weather-crop in
formation will be made available for dissenri-
nation in both the national bulletin and that
OF the State, and the additional labor required
IN conductinga q separate service and issuing
an additional bulletin viii be unnecessary
You will continue i'll charge OF the cufire
crop service of the State, the observer at Los
Angeles merely cooperating with You to fa-
cilitate the collection of reports You should
establish such reporting stations as you deem
advisable carry on the necessary corresponds
ence with the crop, reporters, and furnish
them copies OF your bulletin in exchange for
their work. You should communicate with
such reporters as you desire to have report to
Los Angeles, explaining the new arrange
Inent, and furnish them forms 1888 ad-
dressed 10 Observer, Signal Service Les An
geles, CAL" The mail facilities of the south
ern portion of the State should be examined.
ana each reporter requested to forward his re-
port at such time as will secure its delivery
early on Saturday.
You are authorized to communicate to Ser
geant Franklin such instructions or srlgges-
tlons as you may deem necessary with regard
to the work assigned him in connection with
crop reports and he will doubtless heartily
cooperate with You to make the Crop Buile-
tin Service OF California of the greatest value
to the people of the State.
A copy of a letter this day sent to Sergeant
Franklin is inclosed for your information.
An additional supply OF 500 forms lO53
meteorological), has been ordered sent to YOUR
station, as they will doubtless be needed for
issue to crop reporters in the southern coun-
ties, who are to report to Los Angeles
Please furnish Sergeant Franklin a list of
such crop correspondents as you may iesie-
nate reports to him, and he will advise you Of
any failures or Irregularities in the rendition
of such reports. Very respectfully,
IT. II. c. DASwooDY.
Major Signal Corps, Acting Chief Signal
Officer.
. Following is a copy of the letter sent to
Sergeant Franklin at Los Angeles
SIGNAL OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT.
WASHINGTON, March A. 1891.
Sergeant George E. Frankiin, Signal Corps
Los angeles, CatJoTnid-SIR: During the crop
season of last year Sergeant James A. Bar
wick, observer in charge of Sacramento Cali
fornia, inaugurated the publication of
weekly weather crop bulletin, based upon re-
throughout the State, and published for the
benefit OF the various agricultural interests of
California, and upon the collection of these
reports a summary of the same was sent by
telegraph to this office to be Incorporated in
the weekly weather crop bulletin issued by
this service. Sergeant Barwick states that re-
ports from the southern sections of the State
cannot reach SACRAMENTO in time to be incor-
porated in the telegram to this office and il
has therefore been decided to have the mail
reports from that section collected at Los An
geles, where they can be summarized and a
synopsis thereof telegraphed to Sacramento.
by which means the desired information will
be made available for publication in the State
bulletin and for communication by telegraph
to this Office.
A copy of Constructions to State Weather
Service Assistants" is forwarded herewith.
from the marked portions of which you will
be able to obtain information relative to the
usual manner OF collecting crop reports. Ser
geant Barwick, who is in charge of the crop
bulletin service of California, will be in
structed to communicate with the crop CORE
spondents of the southern portions of the
state, requesting them to render their reports
to Los Angeles in future, and he will furnish
you list of such reporters. He will carry on
correspondence with the reporters issue the
necessary forms, and furnish them copies of
the State bulletin in return for their reports
He Will also be authorized to communicate to
you any suggestions or instructions which
may be necessary in connection with the col
lection and disposition of the crop reports
and any failures or irregularities in the reports
from correspondents should be communicated
by you TO Sergeant Barwick, in order that he
may take the necessary action to correct the
fault $1,000 ''e
The reports forwarded to you will generally
be for the week ending Friday and should be
each week. They should then be arranged in
order, and from them you will prepare q bull
letin OF the weather and crop conditions over
the sections of the State represented This
bulletin will be summarized in a telegram of
not more than forty words. and addressed
observer, Sacramento, CAL" and the infor-
nation therein contained will be published in
the crop bulletin Of the State, and communi-
Gated to this Office to be Incorporated in the
National Crop Bulletin. This telegram will
be transmitted by you as early on SATURDAY.
as possible, In order that Sergeant BarwiclS
may use it in preparing his telegram to this
ONCE which is transmitted not later than
p. NJ. 18th meridian time.
The bulletin prepared from the reports COL
lected at your station should be given to the
press of Los Angeles for publication, and clip
pings of the same sent to Sacramento and to
this office.
1t Is thought that the work required of you
IN this connection, as outlined above, will
consume but little of your time after you have
reduced it to a system, while the Information
thus made available for publication in both
the State and national crop bulletins will be
valuable to the agricultural interests. 1t
should be remembered that the work of col
lecting and distributing information bearing
on the effect of the weather upon crops is one
OF the most popular features of Signal Service
work, and your connection with the same in
cooperating with the observer in charge of the
crop bulletin service of California will doubt
less result in personal advantage to yourself
in the future. Very respectfully,
III. FL. c. DANwooDY,
Major Signal Corps, Acting Chief Signal
Officer.