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Show UTAH HAS VERY DIVERSIFIED DIVERSIFI-ED CLIMATE That Utah has a very wide range of climate is evident from a bulletin recently issued by tho Utah Experiment Stntion en-, titelcd, "The Climate of Utah" by Dr. F. L. WeBt and Mr. N. E.I Edlefsen. Woodruff in Rlch( County and St. George in Washington Wash-ington County are tho record holders in temperature, the for-j mer with a winter record of 50 degrees below zero and tho latt-1 cr with a summer, recprd of 116 degrees above. The largest annual an-nual rainfall record is a little over ov-er 31 inches at the Forest Service Ser-vice experiment station In Sanpete San-pete County, and the smallest, which Is about 4 inches, at Wen-dover, Wen-dover, Tooelo County. The lonq est growing season recorded Is 225 days at Midlake on the Luc-in Luc-in Cut Off, of tho Southern Pacific Pac-ific Railroad, and the shortest is 19 days nt Scofleld in tho coal mining district of Carbon county. coun-ty. , Tho bulletin which is written and illustrated containes much valuable information. There are numerous charts and diagrams showing the yearly precipitation, precipita-tion, tho amount of rainfall eadh month, tho distribution or frequency fre-quency of these rains, the date of the last killing frost in spring and tho first killing frost In tho fall, and tho averago length of tho growing season for tho leading lead-ing towns in each county. A chart is also included showing tho relative value of tho four of each county. most important farm products Weather and tho many terms associated with it are defined and explained, also winds, rains and frosts, as well as methods of forecasting weather. An Interesting In-teresting feature of the bulletin is a method which tho authors have described of forecasting the temperature at a given place on a given day. In actual- tests temperatures have been detenn- ined within a mean departure of four degrees. Tho formula, for-mula, which is workable only in connection with a table which is given, is simple. The records from which tho conclusion given in this bulletin have been described have in a number of cases been kept for forty years. The publication should be especially es-pecially valuable to farmers, manufacturers, transportation agencies, and business men generally, gen-erally, who aro not familiar with a section in which they aro interested in-terested and whoso business is of such a nnturo that it is likely to bo effected by the climate. ' |