The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-05-20

vermont, clear TO the Canadian boundary.
Reports that the damage is heavy in places
For example, two experts of the crop reporting
service in Missouri estimated the damage to fruits
and early vegetables at $10OOO,0OO
The apple crop in Washington, Benton, and 9TH
er counties IN the northwest Arkonsas fruit region
will be practically total loss Peaches and cher
ries were killed and strawberries damaged almost
so per cent
Dispatches said about 90 per cent OF the fruit
crop in Oklahoma is ruined
1t is estimated that Nebraskas crop of early
cherries, apples, pears, and plums is a total loss
The early varieties Of fruit In some eastern
states also suffered heavily.
Early peaches cherries, and plums probably
have been killed in southeastern Pennsylvania
The Cold weather seriously damaged the fruit
crop In the southern part of Ohio, where the fruit
was far advanced.
Thousands Of Maryland fruit trees were in full
Noon when hit by this frost Growers in Wash
1ngton county, the center of the western Maryland
peach belt, report the peach crop destroyed.
The fruit crop In Kentucky apparently was
killed.
Therefore the following article prepared by
the United States Department of Agriculture, is
worth the attention of every fruit grower:
The weather bureau of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture has been able to discover
the weapon used by that old enemy of mankind.
Jack Frost, and in recent published report 1t
tells the farmer and fruit grower just what Jacks
invisible weapon is, and how under ordinary
ditions the sprite's artillery may be used
against him.
Frost of course, occurs whenever the mercury
drops to 30 degrees f. or lower. If much mois-
ture is present in the atmosphere this drop in
temperature is manifested by the white crystals
of frozen moisture upon leaf or grass stem, and
there is what is known white FROST. If the
temperature drops to the required degree ana
does not reach the point when water from the
air is condensed there will be few crystals de-
cd and no cnIt &c frac A
freeze" is the term applied a condition of cold
more permanent than frost, and such condition
may occur when there high winds True
'frosts" occur only when the surface air is rel
atively calm.
Temperature like water seeks level During
the day the earth receives more heat than 1t can
throw off, but at night this supply of heat is
stopped. During the day the heat thrown Off
by the earth warns the thin blanket of air next
the ground. This blanket, 1t warns. loses its
density and ascends. Cooling as it RISES present
ly IL encounters air of It's temperature. and
there Ii stops. Meanwhile its place has been
taken by other colder air. which is I'm turn warmed
by contact with the ground This exchange goes
on until, at shutdown. all the air of a wide layer
above the earth has been warmed, and the high
EST temperature is felt nearest the earth.
Earth Squanders It's Heat.
Now with the sunset old earth begins to suffer
from bit of aerial trckery All day long he
las been patiently passing out heat to enc cold
sir layer after another; night comes, and with
I the loss of his source Of supply, but do these
warm upper layers pass back any of the heat they
,egged during the day? They do not-unIess
hey are made to- The layer close to the earth
Toes and thus they leave their coldest blanket
gainst the shivering earth while they sail about
o or so feet above their late benefactor serene
mi warm and selfish. little caring that the spend
hrfft earth is freezing his toes below.
AS the earth becomes colder the air blanket
ext his brown old skin becomes colder too and
eayier as 1t becomes colder so that the colder Il
rows the tightly IL fits and he has little
nance Of throwing off his chilly coverlet 10 seize
warmer zone The earth. too prodigai Of his