Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-05-20

Vermont clear to the Canadian boundary.
Reports are that the damage is heavy Id places
For example, two experts of the crop reporting
service In Missouri estimated the damage to fruits
and early vegetables at $10000,00O
The apple crop IN Washington, Benton and 9TH
er 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 lH
Dispatches said about 80 per cent Of the fruit
crop In Oklahoma is ruined.
It is estimated that Nebraska's 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, ana pIums probably
have been killed " 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
eloom when hit by this frost. Growers in Wash
fngton 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 it
tells the farmer and fruit grower just what Jacks
invisible weapon is, and how, under ordinary con-
ditions, the sprites own artillery may be used
against him.
Frost. of course, occurs whenever the mercury
drops to 80 degrees II. lower. II 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 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
sfrosts" occur only when the surface air is rel
atively calm.
Temperature like water, seeks d level During
the day. the earth receives more heat than It can
throw of, but at night this supply Of heat is
stopped During the day the heat thrown of
by the earth warns the thin blanket of air next
the ground. This blanket as It warns. loses its
density and ascends. Cooling as II rises, present
" it encounters air Of Its own temperature, and
there It stops. Meanwhile fits place has been
taken BY other colder air which Is In turn warmed
by contact with the ground. This exchange goes
on until. at sundown, all the air of wide layer
above the earth has been warmed and the high
est temperatufesis felt nearest the earth
sgs. Earth Squanders its Heat
Now.swith the sunset old earth begins TO suffer
from bit OF aerial trIckery All day long he
has been patiently passing out heat to one cold
air layer after Another: night comes and with
It the loss Of his source Of supply, but do these
warm upper layers pass back any Of the heat they
begged during the day? They do not--nnless
they are made to. The layer close to the earth
does and thus they leave their coolest blanket
against the ahiyering earth while they san about
10 or SO feet above their late benefactor serene
and warm ana SELFISH little caring that the spend
tnrift earth i freezing his toes below.
AS tke earth becomes colder the air blanket
next his brown old skin becomes colder, too, and
heovsar ~ Az aacaaaea colder 80 that the colder Il
grows the more lightly " 11s and he has littls
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