172 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the cranberry interests of Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and New Jersey; 

 9 for use in the special predictions for the vincA'ard and citrus-fruit 

 interests of Cahfornia and Florida; 8 in the West Indies, rendering 

 reports from fluly 1 to November 15 for use in the special hurricane 

 forecasts, and G in Alaska for use in the general forecast work of the 

 service. 



Under the Portland, Oreg., center, four important fruit districts 

 have been grouped —at Lewiston, Idaho, Boise, Idaho. North Yakima, 

 Wash., and in the Rogue River Valley of Oregon. In tlie Lewiston 

 district the observing stations are located in the Lewiston orchard 

 district and across the Snake River at Clarkston, Wash., each station 

 being the center of its respective district of orchard bench land. The 

 Boise district has an observer at ^leridian who cooperates with the 

 Boise station. In addition to the special observer at North Yakima 

 a regular trained observer was put in charge for the fruit season, and 

 arrangements were made to receive reports from cooperating stations 

 at Wapato, Zillah, Sunnyside, Moxee, and Natchez. In the Rogue 

 River Valley a special station was established at Medford under the 

 charge of a trained fruit and orchard superintendent; and in addition 

 to the old observing stations at Siskiyou and Marshfield. cooperating 

 stations were located at Grants Pass, Ashland, and Jacksonville. 



The Salt Lake City office is in charge of the frost-warning service 

 around Provo, Utah, while the fruit region of the Grand River Valley 

 of Colorado receives warnings from Grand Junction. In the citrus- 

 fruit region around Los Angeles the observer at that station is in 

 charge of the frost warnings, \\nth special observers at Pasadena, 

 Redlands, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Santa Barbara. San 

 Francisco sends warnings to the fruit interests of Northern Cali- 

 fornia, with an observer reporting from Paso Robles. 



In Florida, Jacksonville issues w\arnings for the fruit and vegetable 

 industries, with special observers stationed at Bartow, Eustis, Titus- 

 ville, and Gainesville. Arrangements are being made to investigate 

 the fruit conditions of North Carohna. 



Frost warnings are issued for the cranberry districts of Massachu- 

 setts, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, the most important cranberry- 

 producing section being around Cape Cod, Mass. Arrangements 

 were made during the season for more complete reports in that section 

 by changing the station at New Wareham to the Stjite bog at East 

 Wareham, making the latter place the observation center. The 

 instruments at South Carver were moved to a better location, and 

 new stations were established at Halifax and Marstons Mills. Obser- 

 vations have been continued with good results in New Jersey. In 

 Wisconsin the old station at Berlin was reestablished and conditions 

 improved for observation. 



FORECAST DISTRIBUTION. 



The appropriation for this branch of the service was inadequate to 

 meet the many demands for daily forecasts and special warnings 

 during the past year. While the decrease in the number of places 

 receiving the warnings at Government expense was 60, there was an 

 increase of more than 500,000 in the number of telephone subscribers 

 to whom the forecast was delivered by free telephone distribution, 

 owing to the very favorable arrangements entered into between the 



