The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-14
Department of Agricul- ture Give Valuable
 Information
DOESN'T USE OWN OUTFIT
Data Sent Out by Private Apparatus and Other
 Departments

WASHINGTON, Marcn l4.-lne organization and development by the Department of Agriculture of a. com prehensive radio program covering the entire country provides practi- cal aspect of harnessing radio for service and utility
 Furnishing market reports, weather information and general agricultural news, this service, undertaken with the approval of the Interde epartmental Radio Committee, in charge of all Government radio broadcasting, is rendering an efficient service of ln- calculable value to the farmers of America.
 Federal crop and market reports were first prepared and broadcast by radio-telegraph, in cooperation with the Radio Laboratory of the Commerce Departments Bureau of Standards. The reports were sent out by this laboratory for four months, covering a radius of ap- proximately 100 miles.
 Whole U. S. Covered
 They were successful however, and today, less than two years since their inauguration, the entire area of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains and practically all c ington to California is covered with daily broadcasts of these repOrts-by hieh-powered radio telegraph stations.
 With the further development Of radio and it's extension to radio telephony, the crop and market re- ports were also released to selected broadcasting stations of this type. At the present time the radio crop and market news service of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics is handled by four high-powered radio telegraph stations of the Navy De- partment, five strong radio-telegraph and one radio-telephone station of the Post Office Department and 7S radio-telephone stations belonging to colleges, State agricultural depart ments, electrical companies, news papers, stockyards and other con- cerns interested.
 Radio Storm Warnings
 The Weather Bureau has had an effective distribution of its informa- tion by telegraph for several years, but it was only in the last year that radio has been utilized in send, ing warnings over land, sea and through air. The end of the last fiscal year found 98 stations in 35 States broadcasting daily weather forecasts and warnings by radio-tele' phone. These stations also disseml- nate weekly reports on the effect of weather on crops and highways and other information issued by the Weather Bureau.
 In cooperation with the Office of Communications of the Navy Depart ment, the Weather Bureau has made wide extensions in the radio bulletin of marine and aviation interests. Each day major bulletins are sent out covering the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf coasts and the Great Lakes region.
 For the aid of aviators special upper-air forecasts are broadcast from all Naval radio stations in IA zones, except two. Army, Navy and Post Office officials and flying fields are supplied with daily telegraphic forecasts and specially requested re- ports.
 World System Planned
 Attention is now being focused upon establishment of an interna- tional weather information and crop reporting service. A daily radio gram is sent to the French Meteoro- logical Service, containing observa- tions taken at about 40 stations in the United States, and a similar message soon will be sent to the Philippines and Japan. The reports sent to France are broadcast from the Eiffel Tower over all Europe. In exchange the Weather Bureau re- ceives radio reports from European countries.
 Waathnr observations will ha taken twice daily by members of the Amundsen Polar Expedition and con- municated by radio to the Signal Corps at Nome, Alaska, whence they will be transmitted to the Weather Bureau here. Crop reports are ex-