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Show FROST WAK1IINGS TO BE SENT 00T BY - TELEGRAPH What will prove tlic salvation of the Utah fruitgrowers during the next month or more, when the danger to tho opening blossoms is greatest on account of frost, if followed out properly, prop-erly, is the plan being made by A. H. Thlessen, section director of the United States weather burqau, to give telegraphic predictions of coming com-ing low temperatures. A sy3tem of dally reports from the four centers of the fruit district Provo. Roy, Brighnm City and Tromonton will be instituted today and will be continued contin-ued until May 15 or later, when the frost danger Is past. Basing a prediction on these dally reports from special observers he has Just appointed. Director Thlcsson will, on days when frost seems lmml- nent. telegraph forecasts to the fruit ' districts and special reference will be made to the lowest temperatures expected to prevail at these places. In this way the growers will be forewarned fore-warned and can place their fires and smudges to keep the heat In the ground and the trees and the frost out. To those growers who do not live in the immediate vicinity of any of tho four frost stations. Thlessen sue- the four frost stations. I lilessen suggests sug-gests that they dally compare their minimum temperature with that of the nearest station and base their actions ac-tions upon recolpt of a warning accordingly. ac-cordingly. For instance, he says that if a grower living near Provo finds that the temperature on his place is usually two degrees lower than at Provo ho should know that in the event pf a prediction of 31 degrees above at Provo, that he will probably have frost on his orchard. |