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Show SOME WEATIIKll PKOVKRBS HAVE MOKE Oil LESS TUUTIt While scientific meteorology still: looks askance at the possibility of making seasonal forecasts, proverb mcteorologj the old sayings about the weather that have grown ur. 'through hundreds of years' observation observa-tion on the part of those who live-cut live-cut of doors a great deal of the time.- is ready to venture a' guess a-s to . what various types of weather wilti have on agricultural crops, par lieu - .-- larly on fruit. f- For example, a continuous or , nearly continuous covering of snow,. ; incident to a cold winter, not only, delays the blossoming of fruit trees--until after kllliug frosts are proba--bly over, but also prevents that alternate- thawing and freozlng so . ruinous to wheat and other winter-grains. winter-grains. So the weather bureau of ' the United States Department of: Agriculture points out. tliat such proverbs as "A cold April the barii-will barii-will fill," and "A late spring, never deceives," contain more or less truth. There are a number of other-proverbs meaning practically the same? thins; that an unseasonable early growth of vegetation la likely to be injured by Utter fivezti?. "January blossoms till no mans cellar. ".March damp and warm does farmer much harm. niuinUr in March hciokoncth a fruitful year." Tho last Wiuire.i s-P'-eial explanation. Sinc-3 a thunder storm .seldom oe-curo oe-curo in the early spring except whe:i a cold v-uvo fellows an.; breaks, up a spoil of mild " weather, thunder in Much implies cold weather to f.il-!ov, f.il-!ov, and hence the prevention o: ih; threatened too early appearance at vegetation. Ordinarily, however, although al-though winter is one of the- most conspicuous con-spicuous of weather phi nomcna, ir has but little value as an hwllcator of coming weather, and hence has evoked evok-ed very few proverbs. |