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Show Tlw .New VVralhcr llntetu. Or, the Ont of nett July the weather bureau of the United Htatia government will be taken out of the hands of the tig nil serricocorpt of the Array and handed over with all Its belongings to the agri cultural department Thlt transfer hat long been discussed throughout the conn try, but wat finally determined oa by act of the last congress. Considerable change will be mde ol snch character at would uatnrally follow a transfer from Military to agricultural hinds. The scope will be enlarged. The signal service bnrean hat ao far con3nel Its work to recording atmospheric phenomena phe-nomena and miking prediction! about the weather, which happened to hit, or otherwise, at the caw might lie. The agricultural burenti wtll undertake to mike a complete American meteorology Tho recorded data will In classllled and conclusloni drinn from them which will form the basis of the fnture Amerl can weather science. One of the most Interesting brtncbea of Inquiry will be the relation of weather to disease in Its various thapea One disease which seined to have a decided edition to weather wat the grip Darin j stormy weather tho eplJciaio raged mmtt with the appearance of asltled, dear, dry weather It abated. One obstacle that hu stool In the my of an American weather idrnce It the tlzoof thecountry To alt appearance! A certain kind of weather will be ap proacblng from one ilnt of the com put. The tlgnal service predicts that certain meteorological conditions will prevail In a given itretch of country on a given day llcholdl up twerps a storm from the sonthevst and oil the weather wisdom of the bnreau li put to shame. Kuropcam have Milled It in their own minds tlut Americana are rrry Ignorant and bvekward In meteorology, kuowlng nothing of our variable roudltient and sudden changes here. An offlclat of the agricultural department rather withea it were possible to give the average Knro penn meteorologist n tvste of an Amerl ran blltzanl or btrnado Jut once, so at to enlighten hit nsdtntandlng. |
