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Show TO ISSUE BULLETINS FOR INSTRUCTION OF UTAH DRY FARMERS Weather Man to Send Oat Precipitation Record for Benefit of Home Seeker. A. H. Tbiensen, section director of the United States weather bureau for t'tah. has taken hnneh" from the numerous telephone ralf he has re eeived concerning precipitation in dry farming regions, and is planning bow tn meet the demand. As a result he has written to Washington for permission to isaua a series of bulletins to cover this verv want, and will later 'go to the national capital in order to flinch his argument. Practically every rain that falls in drv fanning regions is worth a considerable consider-able amount in dollars and rents to the dry farmers. Then' ara conditions wheu as inch of rainfall it worth several hundred hun-dred dollars to the man who has only a quarter section under cultivation. It is I worth proportionately more, of course, to the man who is interested in some of the large dry farms that are beginning begin-ning to he formed in Utah, under the application of the enlarged homestead act. Thane farmers often do not live on tha farms but in the cttv, and it is but natural that they should wish to know from time to time just what the rainfall has beon in the locality where tha farm may be situated. To aid In meeting this demand for information in-formation the weather bureau has been innfMiinn thm number of stations in t'tah, about forty rainfall stations having hav-ing been added in the past two years. Btill more are to it added, among those in the immediate future being posts at Vernon in southern Too?le oounty; Hurricane, Hur-ricane, Washington county: Collinston, Box Elder county: Hovtsville, Hummi county; Kirerton. Rait Lake county, and in Dog Vallev, west of Xaphi, in Juab eounty. These are all towns in the pen. ter uf large drv farming arras, and that some of these places the dry farm industry has assumed big proportions. The plan of Mr. Thiessen now awaiting await-ing the sanction of the central office at Washington to issue a bulletin each year, about April 1, giving the total to-tal of precipitation from the preceding October 1. or during the aeaaon when the -dry farmer tried to eonserve the winter moisture for the benefit of the next spring's crop. Following the April bulletin the plan of Mr. Thiessen is to issue a bulletin weekly during the growing season, after gathering the data from each rainfall station by wire or by mail, telling exactly the conditions condi-tions in each dry fanning region in the state. Thia, it is Agared out, should be worth much to the thousands of persons in Utah interested in dry farming. , |