The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-05-13

Vermont clear to the Canadian boundary.
Reports are 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 $10O00,OO0.
The apple crop in Washington, Benton and 9TH
counties in the northwest Arkansas fruit region
will be practically total loss. Peaches and cher
ries were killed and strawberries damaged almost
so per cent.
Dispatches said about 95 per cent of the fruit
crop in Oklahoma is ruined.
1t is estimated that Nebraskas crop of early
cherries, apples. pears, and plums is 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
sloom when hit by this frost. Growers in Wash
lngton county, the center of the western Maryland
4 peach belt, report the peach crop destroyed.
The fruit crop in Kentucky apparently was
killed.
Therefore the following article prepared by
4 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 a recent published report 1t
4 Invisible weapon is, and how under ordinary con-
dtions the sprites own artillery may be used
against him.
II 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 grass stem, and
there is what is known as white frost" If the
temperature drops to the required degree and
does not reach the point when water from the
air Is condensed there will be few crystals de-
posted. and the result is "black frost" A
'freeze" is the term applied to condition Of cold
more permanent than frost, and such condition
may occur when there are high Winds True
"frosts' only when the surface air is rel
atveiy calm.
Temperature, like water, seeks level During
the day the earth receives more heat than 1t cur
throw off, but at night this supply of heat |!
stopped. During the day the heat thrown of
by the earth warns the thin blanket of air mex
the ground This blanket, as 1t warns loses 1t
density and ascends. Cooling as 1t rises present
ly 1t encounters air Of Its own temperature an
there II stops. Meanwhile its place has bee
taken by other colder air. which is in turn warme
by contact with the ground This exchange goe
on until at shutdown, all the air Of wide laye
above the earth has been warmed, and the higl
est temperature is felt nearest the earth.
Earth Squanders Its Heat.
Now with the sunset, old earth begins to suffs
from d bit of aerial trlckery. All day long
has been patiently passing out heat to one col
air layer after another; night comes, and vii
It the loss Of his source of supply but do the
warm upper layers pass back any of the heat thu
begged during the day? They do not-unle
el they are made to. The layer close to the ear
e does, and thus they leave their coolest blank
\ against the shyering earth while they sail abo
E 40 or so feet above their late benefactor serel
ISL and warm and selfish, little caring that the spen
4 n thrift earth Is freezing his toes below.
NI As the earth becomes colder the air blank
III next his brown old skin becomes colder TOO al
kl heavier as 1t becomes colder, that the colder
k| grows the more tightly It fits and he has HIT
chance OF throwing off his chilly coverlet to sci
Mb Z warmer zone The earth. too prodigal Of b