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Show 3 Preview Of Winter Alerts Farmers; Fair Weather Ahead A preview of what shouldn't come until after September 23, so far as weather is concerned, was seen and felt here this week, when Old Man Weather gave fruit growers and other farmers a little scare by predicting pre-dicting a light frost, then changed his mind and sent rain. Crops which would probably be damaged by frost at this time include tomatos, alfalfa and some late corn. Harvesting Harvest-ing of tomatoes might continue con-tinue some weeks yet with good weather, growers said. A little frost would not hurt peaches pea-ches or pear now as the major ma-jor portion of these crops are soon to be harvested. Frost at this time of year, especially if it continued cold through a winter like the last one, would probably do more to individual 'disposition than to individual disposition than to any crop. We here can consider ourselves our-selves lucky at that when we read of the 20 degrees below zero weather in Montana, with some portions of the state being be-ing covered with as much as a foot of snow. The storm which hit Montana was reported repor-ted from Alaska and after whistling across that state headed for Wyoming and the Dakotas. It would take a temperature below 32 degrees for frost to form and while such a level would be unusual, it would not be a record setter, considering that in 1895. the mercury got down to 29 degrees in September. Septem-ber. This was the lowest mark for the month in the state's meteorological history, and we forgot to ask what kind of a winter followed. Fair weather however is predicted yet for a few weeks. |