The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-17
THE STATE CROP REPORTS.
Alter This Week They Must be Sent
to San Francisco.
director Barwick's Letter of Expla-
nation to Correspondents
and Observers.

Several days ago the fact was men
TONED in the Record Union" that, ow-
ing to the closing down of the State
Printing Office by Governor Budd, the
weekly crop bulletins the printing of
Which has been done in that office-will
be printed in and distributed from San
Francisco.
Director Barwick has accordingly adj
dressed the following letter to all the
crop correspondents and voluntary OBJ
servers
Owing to the closing of the State
Printing Office by the veto of the appro-
priation for the next two fiscal years, no
printing of weekly crop bulletins and
monthly weather bulletins Through the
cooperation of the State Agricultural
Society can be done. The value of
these reports to the State of California
is SO great that Professor Willis l..
Moore, Chief of the Weather Bureau at
Washington, D. c., has decided to trans
fer the headquarters of the California
section Of the United States Weather
Bureau from Sacramento, hitherto I'M
der the charge Of James A Barwick,
Section Director, to San Francisco I'M
der the charge of w. H. Harmon, Fore
cast officer, who will hereafter be the
Section Director for California.
This change is made by the Chief of
the Weather Bureau wholly in the in
terest of the State, whose weekly and
monthly reports are of such great value
that it would be a suicidal policy to not
have them printed and distributed
monthly and weekly, at as early a date
as possible, and as the San Francisco Of
flee is already equipped with a printing
plant, the issue of the reports will be
made from that point as promptly and
at as early a date as when issued from
the State Printing Office by the State
Agricultural Society, which, through its
able and efficient Secretary, Edwin F.
Smith, has been the means of dissem-
mating throughout the United States
valuable climatic data of the State of
California from March, 1881 to March,
1897
Il am therefore authorized by the
Chief of the Weather Bureau at Wash
ington, D. c., to instruct each and every
voluntary observer and crop CORE
spondent that on and after Monday,
June Dist, all weekly crop reports will
be mailed to the United States Weather
der no circumstances will they be sent
to Sacramento.
THE voluntary observers are also in
structed to mail their monthly reports
for June and thereafter to the United
States Weather Bureau Office San
Francisco.
whenever needed, supplies, such as
forms, envelopes, paper, etc, are re-
quired by the voluntary observers and
crop correspondents of this State they
will always apply and direct their COM
municatiOns to the United States
Weather Bureau Office, San Francisco.
I'm the transfer of this State service
from my hands to those of w. H. Ham
mon, l hope and trust and believe that
each and every voluntary observer and
crop correspondent will render his re-
ports as full and as prompt to the San
Francisco office in the future as he had
to the Sacramento Office in the past.
Il shall remain in charge of the Sac
ramento station as local Observer, but
hereafter will have no direct connection
with the gathering and dissemination of
the meteorological data of this State,
which has been under my direct super
vision since March, 1881.
The crop correspondents will there
fore be governed according to the above
Instructions. and will greatly oblige me
by being prompt and regular in mail
ing weekly crop reports to Mr.. Ham
mon, that he may have plenty of infor-
nation and data to make his weekly
crop report of interest and value to
all parties