Show j 4 AUGUST WEATHER WAS SUBNORMAL Generally Favorable to Crop Growth but Damage Done by Frosts The temperature for August Augu t averaged bolo below bolow normal according to the tho climatological report Issued ye yesterday b by Al Alfred Alfred Alfred Al- Al fred H. H of ot the Utah section of the United States weather er bureau There Thore were moderately high afternoon and low night temperatures The weather was gener generally h favorable for crop growth and outside work tho abundant sunshine especially expediting expediting expedit expedit- ing harve harvesting ting an and thre threshing Frost was reported report ell at somo omo of or the themore themore more elevated stations and aud tender v vegetation vegetation g- g was damaged ed The Tho fCc second nd crop of or alfalfa wa was secured b by the end of oC the month some of oC It was injured b by showers rs and the quality averaged ed from fair fall to good Farm work was backI backward backward back back- I ward at some places but fall plowing at others began Fruit ripened nicely but hut the crop was small Tomatoes were late and not so 50 plentiful as in other years rear Pastures and meadows were getting dT dry at tho end of ot the tho month but bat the stock was doing well Th The prIncipal damage by weather agencies a during tho the month was tho the threshing of wheat whet t and aud barley barll by tho the heavy hail bail storms In vicinity of or Clarkston and Neola and tho washing of a newl newly made road by hy a cloudburst t tIn in San Juan count county The monthly mean menn temperature of tho the state as is determined from seventy seventy- four stations was vas 7 degrees which Is 2 27 7 7 degrees below normal normol The highest high high- highest est cit temperature for tor the state was re reported ro- ro ported at nl St St. George August 23 53 3 when wilen the mercury stood at lor degrees The rue lowest temperature recorded was at Black Dlack Rock August 25 25 when the thermometer thermometer thermometer ther ther- touched 29 9 degrees 3 J degrees M below bolow freezing Precipitation for the tho state averaged c Inches which Is 0 02 of an Inch above e normal Tho The heaviest twenty twenty- hour hour fall was 24 at nt Jat FarmIngton Farmington Farm Farm- 1 Ington on August 29 and tho the greatest g local mont monthly l amount was waN inches Incho at Winder The monthly percentage percenta c of possible sunshine was 8 8 1 at Salt Lake and 81 51 at Modena For tho the statu state the avera average o number of or clear days lIaM was eighteen partly cloudy eight and cloudy five A |