The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-17


i on any given evening show that there
are temperatures below forty, the
inieations are that there Is q crisis
at hand. II the weather Is clear
the danger Is intensified, because tn
radiation Of the heat Of the earth
is facilitated by such conditions. Il
there is an absence OF wind, there
is again multiplication OF the dan.
ger. for stiffness helps Jack Frost.
When these three conditions con
spire the warning goes forth. Tele-
Ephones buzz to all the sub sltfons.
From these Individual warnings arc
again telephoned to individual or
chardmer throughout the corffmua-
Eity. The warnings state that or
chards on hillsides are safe until
1.-THE thermometer OF the farmer In
dicates given Temperature. Hill
'ssides can stand greater cold than
the valleys because the air Is gem
orally in motion there. The valley
fruit men are warned that the
should light their fires at a temper
azure that is higherr thin Is neces-
sary on the hillsides. A whole COM
imunity is pulled from its bed In
the night and the farmers hurry into
their orchards. There they have al
ready laid fires against Just such
emergencies. The torch Is applied
and soon there are hundreds OF fires
going in all the orchards and the
fight Is on to keep the temperature
above that point where the buds on
the trees may be blighted. Possi-
tbly a difference Of one or two de-
grees may mean the saying of crop
Tho lighting of a few fires often
makes this differences, and tNa bait
tie Is won. y
In the vineyards Of Fresno, Cali
fornia; in the peach orchards around
Grand Junction. Colorado; in the
orange orchards Of Salt River Val
ley, in Arizona; among the apples of
Walla Walla, Washington; where
grape fruit grow in Florida, these
warnings are of inestimable. value
to the producer. Hartford, Conn,
is the center of district that grows
great quantities of fine tobacco UNI
der shade and the weather bureau
warnings of frost or rain give op-
portunity to save the crops. There
are great cranberry boys in Massa-
chusetts, Wisconsin and New Jersay.
In the spring when the blossoms are
new and in the TALL when the fruit
has not yet ripened, there is danger
from frost. The weather bureau
sends out special warnings to these
sections and the water is urned into
the cranberry boys TO keep the tenn
perature up to the point whero there
is safety
In addition to these special serv-
ices that the weather bureau is fur
nishing to the farmers, 1t is stead
lily reaching more of them with the
regular forecasts, such as are dis
l:ributed and bulletined in the towns
land cities. The service is now NO
perfected that the great storms may
he safely predicted forty-eight hours
in advance of their arrival. There
lare two great sources OF storms; The
one class originates in Alaska and
reaches the United States by way OF
Medicine Hat, in Canada-a point
from which they were SO long first
reported that this town .;gaineS. the
Reputation Of originating them: and
the other of the north coast OF
i Venezuela and thence by way OF the
Caribbean Sea. These storms pc
sooner get started than the weather
bureau gets trace of them. The only
Question then is the Importance to
which they may develop and the dis
lance to which they may reach
But always the forecaster may de
termine rather definitely what will
be happening in their track two days
in advance of their arrival.
So the weather warning may be
started on It's way forty-eight hours
ahead Of the storm. 1t Is flashed
out from Washington to all the
branch stations. At these stations II
lis printed and the cards distributed
to whomsoever is interested in re.
Iceiving them. Bundles Of. them are
furnished to every postmaster in the
given districts and redistributed II
Isuch a way as to get to the, creates,
possible number of people. The let.
ter carriers take them out on theil
trips and post them. Individual far.
tmers may ask the local postmasters
to always include forecast card il
their package of mail and this viii.
Il inyariable be done.
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