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Show A REGULAR HE-WINTER COLD SNAP! In the fore part of the winter we had our first cold snap, the mercury dropped for nine days to one of the longest, and hardest cold snaps we have ever had; at that time it reached 14 below. Then came spring weather in the early part of January, very mild, warm, and then, quickly turning around we suddenly got 14, 15 and 14 below in succession! That in February! If each month is a little colder, what will March be? Cold weather winter kills parasites. When we had a mild winter two years ago, it was followed by an outburst of curly leaf, of chalcis fly, and of the other many parasites which infest the crops. An accurate record is being taken now of our winter temperatures, to try to correlate pests with open easy winters. The temperature is being taken, -computed on a curve and next season and each season thereafter, the relation of pests and diseases fitted to that chart. We believe that much very important knowledge will result. , . . Weevil and other insects will cany oyer the winter in numbers, if the winter is mild ; not if a severe winter. And . with accurate data on that, the next step is to take extra " means of killing off the pests in the early fall in a mild winter, and again in the spring. Thus save much more of the crops. The weather in Wyoming, so the papers say, give them a taste now to as low as 52 below zero if that information is accurate. -' 4 Our whole hope, as a community, is for heavy falls of snow in the high hills, which will find its way down the usual course into our reservoir. So far there is much in-couragement. in-couragement. Millard Co. Chronicle, Delta. |