188 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The following statement gives the number of stations, arranged 

 under district centers, receivmg storm warnings: 



a Not centers. 



STATION PUBLICATIONS. 



Early in 1910 the policy was adopted of discontinuing the station 

 weather maps wherever the newspapers would undertake their pub- 

 lication. The announcement of this purpose met w^ith a cordial 

 response from the press. The first " commercial weather map," as 

 it has been called, was published in the Minneapolis Journal on 

 March 1. Within the four months following its publication has been 

 extended to 65 morning and evening papers in 45 cities, while 55 

 additional stations will introduce the method as soon as suitable 

 outfits can be supplied, which will probably be during the coming 

 August. By this plan of publication the weather chart is placed 

 before the public twice daily, and reaches millions of people where 



