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ANNUAL REPORTS OP DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the greatest extension of forecast distribution has been made through 

 the cooperation of telephone companies, and it has been mainly 

 through such cooperation that the distribution has been maintained 

 ■without impairment. In fact, notwithstanding the reduced number 

 of distributing centers receiving the forecasts at government expense, 

 the forecasts have been made available to 537,000 more telephone sub- 

 scribers than received the service at the close of the preceding year, 

 the total number now being about 3,G81,000. Funds not being avail- 

 able, advantage could not be taken of any of the opportunities 

 afforded by the extension of the Rural Free-Delivery Service of the 

 Post-Office Department. 



The following table shows in detail the distribution of daily fore- 

 casts and special warnings in the several States by the various means 

 employed : 



Distrihution of daily forecasts and special warnings. 



State. 



Alabama 



Arizona 



Arkansas 



California 



Colorado 



Connecticut 



Delaware 



District of Columbia 



Florida 



Georgia 



Idaho 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Iowa 



Kansas 



Kentuckj' 



Louisiana 



Maine 



Maryland 



Massachusetts 



Michigan 



Minnesota 



Mississippi 



Missouri 



Montana 



Nebraska 



Nevada 



New Hampshire 



New Jersey 



New Mexico 



New York 



North Carolina 



North Dakota 



Ohio 



Oklahoma 



Oregon 



J'enusylvania 



Rhode Island 



South Carolina 



South Dakota 



Tennessee 



Texas 



Utah 



Vermont 



Virginia 



Washington 



West Virginia 



Wisconsin 



Wyoming 



Total 



At government expense. Without expense to the United States by- 



Forecasts 



and 



special 



warnings. 



35 



5 



27 



100 



11 



10 



8 





 35 

 34 

 15 

 120 

 117 

 142 

 94 

 44 

 77 

 13 

 20 

 16 

 69 

 75 

 45 

 31 

 12 

 75 



6 

 14 

 23 

 11 

 128 

 81 

 23 

 81 

 32 



9 

 86 



2 

 29 

 63 

 52 

 63 



5 

 13 

 61 

 25 

 28 

 108 



7 



2,180 



Special 

 warn- 

 ings 

 only. 



3 







6 



44 



02 















113 



31 



1 



1 



1 



5 



1 



32 



23 



1 



4 



11 



1 



5 







1 



21 



1 







•0 



18 



1 



45 



11 







169 



1 



1 



11 







9 



10 



3 



46 



23 







4 



1 



7 



6 



2 



742 



Emer- 

 gency 

 warn- 

 ings. 



139 







107 







38 



48 



16 







52 



239 







402 



221 



381 



175 



84 



49 



39 



46 



58 



326 



181 



108 



146 



13 



217 







33 



105 







351 



164 



93 



310 



16 







1.37 



12 



105 



76 



285 



227 







44 



118 







51 



306 



5,526 



Mail. 



1,232 



177 



940 



1,205 



923 



1,401 



111 



1,725 



1,010 



2,101 



613 



2,386 



2,347 



1,993 



1,015 



1,843 



644 



1,151 



1,781 



3,108 



4,974 



2,314 



1,205 



3,430 



408 



1,141 



74 



910 



1,220 



78 



7,190 



777 



189 



5,880 



722 



458 



3,814 



478 



948 



807 



1,187 



1,460 



300 



483 



1,283 



787 



849 



2,520 



128 



73,846 



Rural 

 deliv- 

 ery. 



781 







517 



2,883 



914 



50 



296 







220 



832 



200 



2,835 



1,818 



4,187 



2,310 



806 



143 



802 



575 



210 



348 



4,100 



886 



2,121 



50 



408 







1,409 



100 







2,194 



2,030 



1,919 



830 



1,104 



183 



1,718 







636 



183 



1,055 



1,188 



661 



461 



2,124 



1,091 



7 



2,110 







49,295 



Telephone. 



13, 195 



7,400 



22,603 



101,383 



36, 138 



72,300 



4,865 



20,000 



8,268 



34,350 



13,680 



370,799 



175,466 



171,389 



306,709 



47,565 



17,031 



14,400 



7,091 



9, 450 



216,790 



137,901 



34,611 



304,347 



5,911 



210,717 



967 



2,397 



27.778 



3,541 



332,505 



27,705 



16, 453 



540, 137 



0,994 



16, 465 



160.459 



1,163 



10,076 



49, 174 



39,344 



71,551 



34,277 



20,461 



31,204 



11,023 



34,924 



55,063 



6,710 



3,680,905 



Railroad 



train 

 service. 





 

 

 

 

 138 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



25 

 

 

 

 

 



77 

 279 

 

 

 

 

 

 



15 

 

 

 207 

 

 



24 

 

 

 1 



13 

 

 

 

 

 



12 

 101 

 

 

 

 



Railroad 

 tele- 

 graph. 



892 



66 

 



14 

 

 

 1 



27 

 1 



69 



149 







17 



71 

 



51 

 1 



18 

 



65 







387 



13 

 6 



52 

 

 

 

 

 179 

 8 

 163 

 

 



34 



130 







449 







38 

 

 3 



63 

 

 



72 

 



17 

 

 



2,159 



