Show Reports From Many Sources The fe federal eral weather service as It was vas then called began in 1871 to receive receive receive re re- weather reports by telegraph on which to base weather maps and fore fore- casts There were at that time only 15 55 stations sending In telegraphic re re- re- re ports They were all In the United States an and all but seven of them were east of the Mississippi river At the time present time the maps and forecasts Issued by the weather bureau of the United States Department of Agric Agriculture l- l received ture Cure are made from reports from stations by electric tele telegraph radio transmission transmission trans trans- md and cable lines and by mission from ships at sea These stations are distributed ov over r widely separated parts paris of the globe They the Asiatic coast const and the 1 ihil hll- hll In the Far East gust Canada anada the islands of the Pacific Alaska the Eu- Eu and northwestern West Nest Indies s ope |