The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-11
Special systems.

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The United States Weather Bureau
has perfected special systems and IA
cilities for obtaining and dissent
mating advance weather news adapted
to the protection ot growers OF many
SPECIAL crops In different sections of
the country, In connection with the
weather reports received from It's ZOO
stations and from 800 other obs
servatton points, the bureau has es-
tabllshGd Il large number OF special
stations for observing crop weather
conditions In the corn, wheat, cot
ton, sugar, rice and cattle raising dis
tricts. The object OF this service Is
to furnish the growers OF each Of
these crops throughout the summer
with Information That will enahl g
them to handle the crops to best adj
vantage. The corn and wheat region
service covers for example the fifteen
principal grain states, in which It'll
maintains one. region center, thirteen
district centers, and IA A special sta
tons, from which kilograms are re-
ceived daily, and reports dissent
mated Daily bulletins showing the
Temperature and rainfall at these sta
lions are published at eighteen differ
ent points and distributed to approx
mately 2,7T5 different people. SINH
lnr services dealing with cotton
weather conditions cover the eleven
l.principal cotton states and consist OF
data gathered In thirteen centers
through It's special stations This.
service was extended during the
Ispring OF 1916 to the new cotton
growing district in western Texas and
other uncovered fields. The sugar
and rice region service heretofore has
Isupplied weather information to the
rice growers of Texas and Louisiana
and the sugar growers a throughout
/ the southern states I lis expected
that special rice service vii be In
.Taugurated In Arkansas.
The special Tobacco service Isl car
i ried on in the states OF Connecticut
land Wisconsin through two centers
and fourteen stations. Extension 5s
contemp 1ateds to give a more complete
/ special tobacco service in important
tobacco districts in western Ken
tucky The crop weather service, Is
part iarly important to- alfalfa
growers in all the western states and
special three OF four day forecasts are
issued in the same wa 81 tnt connec ton
with the harvesting of alfalfa seedg
which lis dependent onsWeathe com dit
Etions.
4 Special Fruit Region Service.
The special fruit region weather.
warning service, who to recastsg p
i ttcul afly the coming of spring trosts,i
is OF particular value in the INTENSIVE
lorcharding districts where fruit
Igrowers have made preparations by
Ineans OF smpdglng or heating or
sother means to tect their or hards
from frost. This vice con- ists OF
tseYeral separate e branch s. The cram
berry service In eastern Massachu-
setts5 and southw estern Wisconsin
Inns N low been extende Cd TO the Shell
Lake district ofsnorthW tern Stscon-
sin The orchard forecast and WI
Itngs e-pr1ncip a1ly for the benefit Of
fruit men in Ohio, COLORADO .. gtahs
.ltWashfng ton. Oregon and California
4 This service has been expanded by
the establ ishmen Of seven new sta
I.tiona IN the grape and peach growing
districts fnorthe rns Ohio and by the
detailing OF trained men for special
1 dutysi In the fruit distric let Of the HOOD
river valley, Oregon, and the Gunni4
Ison Valley Colo. These men study