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which bordered the desert. "Grove" station was situated in the open 

 orchard midway between the tree just mentioned and its neighbor. 

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Fig. 4. Daily evaporation from atmometers at four different stations at 

 East Bakersfield in 1917. Ordinates, water loss in cc; abscissae, days of the 

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mile to windward of the edge of the orchard and many miles to leeward 

 of any irrigated land (pi. 41)). The data accumulated for nineteen 

 days are shown in figures 2 and 3 and table 5. 



