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Show I A. H. Thiessen Arranges to Establish Es-tablish a Weather Bureau Branch in Provo. EACH ORCHARDIST WILL BE PHONED WARNING OF FROST System Will Be Extended to Other Parts of State After Careful Study. Special lo The Tribune. PROVO. March 3. A. H. Thlesson, chief of tho weather bureau at Salt Lake City, was In Provo. Thursday and Friday, Fri-day, malting arrangements for tho establishment es-tablishment of a branch of tho weather bureau in this city. So much fruit has been rlosiroycd by carly spring frosts that It was thought expedient to prevent, if possible, a repetition repe-tition of tbeso disastrous conditions, and the Provo Commercial club took the matter mat-ter up with Professor Thiessen, who was favorable to the move, and the fruitgrowers fruit-growers will now be given every advantage ad-vantage of such forecasts of weather conditions as are obtainable by the United Slates weather bureau. In connection con-nection with these forecasts Mr. Thiessen Thies-sen says. "In order to protect the fruit Industry it is necessary to do a great deal of detail de-tail work: a general forecast of the weather will not accomplish this purpose, pur-pose, because In the Provo fruit district there are about four sections that have different climatic conditions, or. at leust. I .-. .uhm-uuii-i. Each Grower to Be Warned. "The -warning of frost, therefore, must he rather m detail In order to benefit each Individual owner, because on the so-called critical nights when frost will occur only here and there a general forecast of frost may induce some of the fruitgrowers to fire or heat when It is not necessary for their particular orchards, or-chards, and then on the other hand a forecast of no frost may slightly vary from ensuing conditions so that some orchards may experience frost and thereby there-by suffer a loss, and other parts of the fruit district may be free. "Also It Is thought necessary to make a detailed forecast for each orchard, and in order to do tills the planters will organize or-ganize Into temporary organizations, each orchard man to have a thermometer which will be exposed In the lowest or coldest part of his orchard, and also it will bo necessary to Imve a telephone. We will then establish a central office and on nights of impending frost warn every orchardlst. who will then give a half hour reading of the temperature to the central station, from which station ho will be advised as to the proper time to lire. Every orchard man Is requested to enter heartily Into the scheme. "In addition to this forecast warning work I expect to make experiments In some of the representative orchards, that Is. orchards that represent the different weather conditions of tho fruit belt, be-causo be-causo it Is well known that while some orchards have frost others are quite immune, and It is my intention to glvo this matter more or less study, not only for help for tho present season, but to he of assistance In my future work. Moating to DIscusb Plana. "There will be a meeting at 2 o'clock next Monday aflernoon on tho bonch and one at 7:30 p. m. In tho Provo library, where this matter will be furthor discussed, dis-cussed, and every orchard man is urged even before these meetings to take measures to provide himself with an accurate thermometer and a telephone. Of course, this applies only to those horticulturists who Intend to protect themselves against frost by firing or other means " "It Is my hope that every orchard man in the Provo district will avail himself of this opportunity and enter heartily Into the plan, which I also wish to put in operation in other fruit districts in the state." Mr. Thiessen expects lo take personal charge of this wnrnlng work In the Provo district and will come hero from Salt Lake whenever frost seems to be imminent. im-minent. The plan Is receiving the hearty support of the fruit growers and It is xpected that a great saving will be the result. |
