Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-06
WEATHER BULLETIN.
STORM PREDICTIONS GIVEN ny W.
n. FOSTER
one More warm Wave VIII Cross
the Continent between the
18Th ana 10th Inst.


St Joseph, MO-, OCT. p.-MS i"
bulletin gave forecasts OF the storm
wave to cross the continent from LIST
to 9Th and 18th to 18th.
The next disturbance will reach the
Pacific coast about the 18Th. cross the
west OF Rockies country by close OF
18th, great central valleys 18th to l0th'
eastern states nth.
The warm wave will cross the west
of Rockies country about 18TH, great
central valleys 1ith, eastern states
10th.
The cool wave will cross the west
Rockies country about 18th, great cen
trail valleys 18th, eastern states l9th.
This disturbance will be the most
severe of the month. will be very eN-
tensive and in many places destrue-
tive local forms will occur while II Is
passing.
During the tropical hurricane season,
which includes August, September ana
october it is not yet possible TO de-
tropical hurricane or the trans-contl-
mental storm, 1t must me one or the
other, and not both, because one RODS
the other of its force.
The September 10th to 22d storm
force conferred in the trans-contlnental
storm and II Is not probable that the
great storm OF October Will spend It's
force in the same locality.
The cool wave noted above Will be-
come a evere cold wave in the Mis-
souri, valley about the nth Its fur
Their movements will depend largely on
the location and movements OF the
tropical hurricane at that time.
The great disturbance of September
expended most of Its energies in maxi
ing heat and in evaporation and our
atmosphere is now greatly expanded,
full of moisture, and the great dis
turbance mentioned above will bring
increased rains east of the Mississippi
river.
But the principal precipitation will
come later In SHOWS and rains of
marked characteristics forecasts of
which will be given in succeeding bule-
tins.
THE YEAR BOOK.
Secretary Morton has issuer The
Year Book for 1894, formerly called the
Agricultural Report, and it is SO far
superior TO its predecessors that 1t is
beyond comparison. Eevery one in
terested in agriculture, horticulture,
stock raising, etc, should secure this
book and study 1t carefully.
For such documents always address
your congressman or United State
SENATOR informing him what you
want.
Besides the secretary's report the
Year Book contains numerous articles
Dy lne neuuS OF ulNlslOnS INTO Wnlcn
the department OF agriculture Is di-
vided and of course these discussions
come from very able and scholarly
men.
Having ability. however, does not
signify wisdom. Probably more abili-
ty and scholarship are employed in
the world on the side of error than on
the side of right. When this Is re-
versed the millennium will have arrived.
One of the departments of our ma
tlonal bureau of agriculture Is called
the division of vegetable pathology.
Its purpose is to study the diseases OF
vegetation, to prescribe food and
medicine, to care for the sanitary
conditions Of vegetable life.
In the report from this department
we read: "All our agricultural plants
obtain their water eXculslvel through
the roots. That leaves do not absorb
| water to any appreciable extent under
normal conditions of growth has been
30 fully demonstrated as to need no
discussion here"
Evidently the theories OF these yeget-
| able doctors are in II condition SINH
lar to those held by the surgeons and
doctors OF physic prior to 1928. when
Harvey gave his great discovery Of
the circulation OF the blood to the
| world, and n Harvey must arise among
| those doctors to show them the real
| circulation of sap In vegetation before
any real advancement can be made.
These vegetable doctors admit that
| their best chemists cannot take a SAM
| pie of soil and determine by chemical
! analysis what that soil Is good for,
They have published through their
scientific reports, by authority of the
department of agriculture and the
| Smithsonian institute, that none but a
practical farmer can determine the use
| full qualities of soils.
This one example of their failures is
enough TO prove that the theory on
which these vegetable doctors base
their work Is not good. and must be
supplanted by something more ra-
tlonal.
1t has been thoroughly proven that a
fruit tree limb inclosed in a hot house
will bud, form leaves. bloom and bear
fruit while the roots of the tree are
outside and imbeded in frozen soil
II the water or sap must all come
from the soil through these roots. how
can those vegetable doctors account
for the case above cited? Water and
sap cannot rise through soil and roots
that are frozen and in the case cited
buds. leaves. blooms and fruit must
have been taken in through the air. II
the water is gathered from the atmos-
phere and through the buds and leaves
in one case. the same must apply TO ali
cases.
Draw wire tightly around the body
or limb OF a tree or shrub. fasten and
leave 1t there. The tree will continue
to grow above the wire. but not be-
low 1t. II the sap goes up in vegeta-
tion, this would be reversed, and the
growth would continue below the wire
The report under discussions says
"Hellriegel estimates that about SIC
parts OF water pass off by evaporation
for every part OF dry substance added
TO plant"
The growth of vegetation in one sea.
son is immense, and there must be. ac-
cording to their theory. $40 times as
much water by, weight raised to the
leaves through the roots and stems OF
vegetation. All this enormous weight
of water must be raised against the
force OF gravity by the suction of veg
citation. and where Is tho base OF thai
enormous suction located?
The report further says: "AccordinE
to Hellriegers report, one acre of hay
will eyaporate 527 tons of water dur.
ing the season of growth" Evidently Q
spear OF timothy has n suction equal e
a force pump. or II could never rails,
that amount of water.
The fact is that the water Is evapor
ated directly from the soil, lifted b,
the atmosphere. and part of II I.
caught by the vegetable leaves and re
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