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from the region center to 26 different points and there published in 

 the form of daily bulletins and given to the press; this information 

 is also used at New Orleans in the same manner. Data covering the 

 rainfall at each of the 167 stations, and temperature at 5 stations 

 in each State are telegraphed to the region center, and after being 

 tabulated and charted the summary mentioned above is prepared. 

 In addition to the general weather conditions heavy rainfalls at 

 individual stations are included. 



SUGAR AND RICE REGION SERVICE. 



This service covers the rice-growing region of Texas and Louisiana 

 and the sugar-cane-growing sections of the South. The stations 

 coAering these crops are seven in number, and the information is 

 l)ublished in the cotton region bulletins. The district center is at 

 New Orleans. 



CATTLE REGION SERVICE. 



There is one district center, located at Amarillo, Tex., with 11 

 special stations covering this service; in addition to these, special 

 reports are received from 20 other points in western Texas and Okla- 

 homa. This cattle-region service covers southeastern Colorado and 

 central and eastern New Mexico, in addition to western Texas and 

 Oklahoma. A second cattle-region bulletin distributing point was 

 established at Roswell, N. Mex., during the year. The number of 

 daily bulletins published at these two points is 657. Preliminary 

 steps are under w^ay for the establishment of a new district center 

 at Phoenix, Ariz., as well as at Salt Lake City, Utah. 



CRANBERRY WARNING SERVICE. 



Special cranberry-warning services are maintained in eastern 

 Massachusetts, southern and northwestern Wisconsin, and central 

 and southern New Jersey. Ten special stations are maintained in 

 these districts, from which daily w eather reports are sent to the fore- 

 cast centers to aid in making frost and minimum-temperature fore- 

 casts. 



SPECIAL FRUIT-WARNING SERVICE. 



Special frost and minimum-temperature warning services, with 

 special reporting stations, are maintained as follows : 



Center District covered. 



Columbus, Ohio Most of State. 



INIedford, Oreg Rogue River Valley, Oreg. 



Walla Walla, Wash Upper Columbia River Valley iu Wash- 

 ington and Oregon. 



Boise, Idaho Boise-Payette district. 



Do Twin Falls district. 



Salt Lake City, Utah Northern Utah. 



Delta, Colo Gunnison River Valley. 



Grand Junction, Colo Grand River Valley. 



Pueblo, Colo Canon City, Colo., district. 



El Paso, Tex Rio Grande Valley. 



Roswell, N. Mex Pecos Valley. 



Los Angeles, Cal Southern California. 



San Francisco, Cal Central California. 



Portland, Oreg Salem, Oreg., vicinity of. 



Jacksonville, Fla Central and southern Florida. 



