Show t UTAH'S fATE CLIMATE c That Utah has a very wide range of Is evident from a bulletin re- re Issued by the Utah Experiment Station Ration entitled The Climate of by Dr F. F L. L West and Mr N. N 3 t Edlefsen Woodruff in Rich coun- coun y and St. St George In in Washington are the record holders In tem tem- the former with a winter ecord of 50 below zero and he latter with a summer record of degrees above The largest annual annual an an- nual rainfall recorded is a little over 31 Inches at the Forest service experiment experiment 1 station in S Sanpete county and the smallest which Is about 4 inches a Wendover Tooele county The Tho longest growing season recorded Is days at MIdlake on the Lucia Lucin off Cut of the Southern Pacific railroad railroad rail ran road and the shortest is 19 days at eld in the coal mining district of f Car Carbon on county The bulletin which is well written and Illustrated contains much valuable valuable valuable able Information There are numerous numer numer- ous us charts and diagrams showing the yearly e rl precipitation the amount of rainfall each month the distribution or frequency of or these rains the date of the last killing frost in spring and the first killing frost in the fall and the average length of the growing season for the leading towns In each county A chart IS is also included showing the relative value of the four fur most important farm products of each county Weather and the man many terms as associated as- as socIaL d with it are arc defined and explained ex- ex also winds rains and frosts as well as methods of forecasting weather An Interesting feature of oft t the he bulletin is a method which the authors have described of forecastIng forecasting forecast forecast- I Ing the temperature at a given place on a given ghen day In actual tests temperatures temperatures temperatures tem tem- I have been determined within with with- in a mean departure of 4 degrees I The fhe formula which is workable only I In connection with a table which Is given is simple The records from fromI I which the conclusions given In this bulletin have been derived have in a number of cases been kept for forty years cars The Tho publication should be especially especial especial- ly valuable to farmers manufacturers I ers transportation agencies and business men g generally who are not familiar with a section In which they I Iare are interested and whose business Is Isor of or such a nature that it is likely to be effected by the climate II 22 t |