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Show Recognize Old-Time Weather Prophet PROVERBS USED FOR YEARS BY MANY AT LAST RECEIVE OFFICIAL STATUS Government Prints Interesting Book At last, the old time weather prophel has come Into his own! After many years of patient waiting, hi haa been officially recognised by thi United Elates weather bureau. For man years, the sage old timers nave beer uttering unheeded prophecies and now for the first tlm In the history of government gov-ernment weather observation, aclenci makes formal acknowledgement of thi accuracy of their predictions. Cepies ol a book, published by the United State! agricultural department, entitled "Somi Useful Weather Proverbs" has Just beer received In this city snd the wisdom ol the old timers Is hereby given an official etatu. Th Indorsement of leedlng westbei experts Is given many homely proverbs Indicating changes In weather conditions. Among them la; "Evening red and morning gray. Two signs of one fine day.' Also, one may with added confidence rest secure In the knowledge that "Clear moon, Frost soon;" while agriculturists will more so thsn ever heed the Injunction: "If you see grass in January. Lock your grain In your granary." The book published by the united States agricultural department Is a large one. It 1 721 page In slse end contains twenty-four special articles, besides seventy sev-enty colored Illustrations, map and descriptive de-scriptive diagrams. A special article In the compilation la by J. Cecil Alter, of the local weather bu-reeu. bu-reeu. His subject Is "Crop Safety on the Mountain Slopes." He points out: The mountain protect the valleys from wind and storms. Consequently crop raising In the lntermountaln region re-gion I generally assured of success. Greet varieties of temperature are obtained ob-tained over the valley because the sun's ray, glancea from the slopes making It hot In some places and cool In others. "The hand Is slways hotter when the sun rays hit It at right angles. Conse- : quently a nothern slope Is always cool." Another special article Is on the poul-try poul-try business. The new scientific methods - of handling eggs and chickens are fully i explained, and some of the most vital points tu the Industry are made plain. Judging of eggs Is explained es follows: "Egg merchants buy upon e quality I basis. They examine the eggs upon purchase. pur-chase. A long paper tube 1 the Instru-i Instru-i ment for Judging The egg Is placed at i one end of this, and the merchant looks 1 through from the other. The light rays i travel through the egg better than through the paper wall, consequently a falrlv good picture of the egg's condition an be had. If the egg Is fertile, a small blood ring Is seen." Poultry farms are kept sanitary ao- cording to the article, and the method of preparing hte fowls for the market, follows: fol-lows: "The chicken Is killed by means of a long, sharp slender knife. The Jugular vein Is cut. thus giving the blood system sys-tem ample opportunity to drain. The knife continues up Into th chicken's brain, hitting a certain nerve center there. This center controls the muscles of the skin In which are the feathers. 5 hen It Is destroyed, control of the pore Is ruined, and consequently, a relaxation results which mike it easy to pull the feathers from the capllary tubes. This method replaces that of scalding the chicken. The book also contains data In regard to wheat. It credits Utsh with a wheat yield of twenty-six bushel to th acre The average yield of the United States Is only sixteen bushels The highest sver-age sver-age Is held by Germany, which produces at the rate of XS.5 bushels per acre. Referring to fruit growing possibilities, e special article. "Some Promising Fruits." lists the following as th best venture from present indications. "Monocaey, Eastman and Summer King apples; the Douglas pear, the Chesapeake Ches-apeake strawberry; the Ormond persimmon, persim-mon, the Poo lock avocado, and the following fol-lowing pecans. Burkett. Major, Owens Warrick and Haven." The hook conclude with a llt of the states and the products grown by them a compared to the production of other states. Many International statistics are also given. |