Show FORECASTS ARE OF MUCH VALUE I Illinois Farmers Highly Pleas Pleased d With Aid Bulletins Had Been at Planting at Time ENABLED TO FIGURE AHEAD With Prediction of Rain Everybody Got Busy With Planters and Crop Put In Ground Ready to Be Soaked and Germinated That the farmers of the country find the weekly weather forecasts of immense immense im mense value alue especially during the growing season Is evidenced by a letter letter letter let let- ter of appreciation recently received l h by y the weather bureau of the United States department of agriculture from froman nn an Illinois farmer falmer He was highly pleased with the aid the had I een to him and his neighbors in plantIng planting plant plant- Ing their corn In part pmt he wrote Of Untold Benefit These forecasts ha lave hae e been of untold untold untold un un- told benefit to us this an unusual backward spring and we feel greatly I Indebted to you With this very ery reliable reliable reli rell- able ahle advanced Information you ou are I furnishing us we are able to figure ahead and keep planting right up For I Instance this section began plowing I for corn last week When we received received re re- re- re ed cei your bulletin predicting rain for Tuesday or Wednesday of thi week we ue got busy with our corn planters some even en turning the face of their calendars to the wall and letting Jetting one Sunday get away from fromI I thorn tham To o make e a lon long story short t when your our predicted rain struck us Tuesday noon and is still coming down this tills Wednesday morning It found over OYer third one of the Illinois corn crop cropIn cropIn cropIn In the ground ready to be soaked and germinated Had we not been put wise by your OUI office am confident that not Dot sixth one-sixth would have been planted While your dally daily weather reports made up by your our local observer er help out some tile they cannot be compared with your our weekly forecast sent out from Washington I have ha watched It quite clo close e since you began this part of the service Ice five or six years ago and have found It most reliable and dependable Weekly Forecast In addition to the dally daily weather forecasts forecasts fore fore- casts published In to practically all newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers the weather bureau Issues on Saturday of each week a forecast for forthe he the six days s beginning the following Monday These forecasts are made for nine separate districts covering practically the entire United States and md necessarily are less specific than the dall dally daily forecasts They are given wide distribution during the growing season end and the letter quoted records but one instance among many In In- which they have ha proved of great value to farmers |